DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap

Nonagon

Hi all,

I was looking at this website and now the exams are over am trying to build a mac for cheap as a project over the summer. This is a real for dummies job as I am a complete newbie any and all help greatly appreciated


THe Nonagon.

Ron DMC

This is something I've been hoping to do myself at some point in the near future, though I'm not sure when I'll ever get around to it.

I think the Building and Upgrading forum might be a good place for specific advice, but first off I'd suggest searching for tutorials out there already. There's loads of them.

bluemachaveli

Im not too sure on the legality of this on boards. I think its a no no!

But i have done it myself, the only thing i will tell you is do a LOT of research. And make sure you shortlist products that are fairly easy to set up. Messing with kext's (drivers) can be a nightmare if you don't know what you are doing!

A few of the bigger dedicated sites keep hardware compatibility guides.

greglo23

Look here http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
and here first http://www.insanelymac.com/

Brian

I guess go to InsanelyMac, and look at what hardware pepole have quoted in their sigs. The more common it is, the more likely it is to to have been developed/hacked for, and then recursively the more likely it is to be common.

Frankiestylee

It'll be interesting to see how you get on. I've always been curious about Macs but could never justify the price.

Michael Doherty

I own a Hackintosh which is performing wonderly. You need to do loads of researching but it´s worthy...

colonel-yum-yum

Lifehacker

Must admit I'm tempted to do this.

Kinetic^

bluemachaveli wrote: »

Im not too sure on the legality of this on boards. I think its a no no!

If you buy the software/hardware I don't think it matters.

Is there a TOS on the software that you can only use it on apple hardware?

Willbbz

Anyone wanna give an overview of the research/hardware/problems and if it's worth it involved in their hackintosh?

RuggieBear

interesting. might give this a shot

RuggieBear

used a variation of this and have it working with a few bugs. Still learning so will hopefully sort it out soonish

copacetic

Any pics?

RuggieBear

oh i just put it into a dual boot within my shuttle pc...it's a sp35p2

q6600, 8800gt, 4GB

keanemachine

Gizmodo have an fantastic guide on turning a Dell Mini 10v (netbook) into a hackintosh:

http://gizmodo.com/#!5389166/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-snow-leopard-netbook

Much of the hard work is abstracted away from you if you go with the Mini 10v route. The only thing it can't really do is play HD video. Apart from that you basically have a €300 Macbook (vs €1000 for the cheapest new Macbook.)

I use mine for light web browsing, downloading (cough) large files overnight, and coding Ruby on Rails (a mac is basically mandatory for this, although you need a proper keyboard, mouse and monitor plugged in.)

Hope that helps.

J_E

Kinetic^ wrote: »

If you buy the software/hardware I don't think it matters.

Is there a TOS on the software that you can only use it on apple hardware?

Fairly sure Apple have this covered somewhere that their software is only licensed to be used on their hardware and nothing else.

keanemachine

I think using OS X on non-Apple hardware is a violation of Apple's EULA (end user licence agreement). But EULAs are unenforceable in some countries. It's complex apparently.

More info:
http://superuser.com/questions/30940/is-an-eula-enforceable

Daniel S

I did a guide for AMD PC's, in particular 785g based chipsets.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=255419

Enjoy! :pac: