It's Alive: Mac OS X on Non-Apple Hardware

http://blog.amber.org/2009/07/12/its-alive/

by jcsalterego • 17 years ago

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Oompa• 17 years ago

Another "How to make a Hackintosh" post. Ground breaking. People have been able to do this for quite a while now, I don't see how this is news at all.

Tiktaalik• 17 years ago

Especially true when you scroll to the very bottom and the end result is Audio and DVD not working.

devin4• 17 years ago

I would attribute that to the poster not knowing a whole heck of a lot when he bought his hardware, or about the availability of various fixes for the issues he's having. There is a vast amount of information out there. The DVD not working is of course due to him setting his BIOS exclusively to SATA instead of compatibility mode. The audio, if its even close to a new motherboard, should be able to be solved quite easily with http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/ or HDAEnabler. Some of the stuff he does is unnecessary. A lot of newbie mistakes. The only thing interesting is that it's an i7.

ETA: Written on my faster-than-a-mac-pro-and-only-cost-800-dollars-hackintosh.

anigbrowl• 17 years ago

Fixed since then.

jcsalterego• 17 years ago

Not ground-breaking, but this is one of the more detailed instructions I've seen.

trezor• 17 years ago

After attempting to get a Hackintosh up and running a couple of times (and failing), I would advice anyone who attempts this and intends to remain somewhat honest, to stall the purchase of a proper version OS X until you actually have a successful, working install.

In my opinion getting the install to work can easily be considered more complex than getting an equivalent box running Linux properly was back in the days.

devin4• 17 years ago

I respectfully disagree for one reason and one reason only. The insanelymac forums have guide upon guide for all sorts of hardware configurations.

There is a hardware compatibility list that gives you a good starting point for buying compatible hardware.

Finally, the use of Boot-132 in conjunction with Chameleon has made setting up a completely flawless 10.5.x install pretty simple compared to what it used to require.

Although, you might be right. I am very conveniently forgetting the 2-3 days I spent tinkering with broken installations a year ago. It takes time to learn some of the stuff, but for most of the folks on HN I would assume you'd have little trouble getting it working after a little reading and googling.

ZachS• 17 years ago

It'd be a lot less work to just buy a legit Mac. ;-)

jonursenbach• 17 years ago

If they weren't so fucking expensive, or if Apple _openly_ allowed you to install it on whatever the hell you wanted to, then we wouldn't be having this conversation.

thwarted• 17 years ago

There very little aspect of learning, challenge, and fun in just buying something off the shelf, however.

vito• 17 years ago

I basically did the same thing, but it went like this:

    1. Build my first PC (similar specs as theirs, the important bits anyway)
    2. Install Arch Linux and be comfortable with that
    3. Curiosity builds, I attempt a Hackintosh install and am greeted with everything but audio working.
    4. Back to arch for a few months.
    5. iAtkos v7 came out a little while ago, I tried it, and it worked flawlessly. I am now running 10.5.7 as my main OS. Woo.

(Side-rant: I have to use a codeblock for a list? Seriously? For such a technical site this place sure isn't pretty when it comes to functionality and overall completeness. It's like someone started working on it, forgot about it, and people are using it without the creator knowing about it.)

So, while this may be a "How to make a Hackintosh" post, it is actually more helpful as the hardware they mention is hardware that did not work properly in the past.

My installation and setup was much less difficult than theirs, though, I just had to select NVEnabler and the GT200 video drivers and everything worked.

It's Alive: Mac OS X on Non-Apple Hardware

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