2013 Hackintosh Build.

Digy123

Hey lads,I have decided to do something nice for my "oul ma" haha.
She is a Photographer and spends every moment of her free time editing pictures,She INSISTS that she runs a Mac OS but neither of us like buying apple products.
I plan on building her a pc that runs Mac OS X or whatever the latest version is.
She needs a good monitor for editing too (She made it very clear that is had to be brilliant for editing)
The soul purpose for her computer would be Facebook,Watching tutorial videos and Editing photos......All day,everyday.
Her budget is 1,200. and no more
She also needs alot of storage (She has Several 4tb external drives....all full)
This is my first hackintosh build but it seems fairly straight forward,The only thing i dont know is where i can buy OS X. If somebody could help me with that it would
be great

Thanks in advance lads

indough

you could do worse than to check out some of the golden builds over here

http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/

edit: actually i think you buy the os as an upgrade from the app store now

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512

Digy123

indough wrote: »

you could do worse than to check out some of the golden builds over here

http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/

edit: actually i think you buy the os as an upgrade from the app store now

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-mountain-lion/id537386512

Thanks mate! Any idea on a nice monitor for photo editing for under 300?

indough

Digy123 wrote: »

Thanks mate! Any idea on a nice monitor for photo editing for under 300?

what sort of resolution are you looking for? at that price or thereabouts you might pick up one of those korean monitors with a 2560x1440 res

Digy123

indough wrote: »

what sort of resolution are you looking for? at that price or thereabouts you might pick up one of those korean monitors with a 2560x1440 res

No idea what resolution she is looking for,she just edits in photoshop but the "korean" ones sound interesting,any more info on them?

indough

Digy123 wrote: »

No idea what resolution she is looking for,she just edits in photoshop but the "korean" ones sound interesting,any more info on them?

have a look here for more information on them, the most relevant being toward the end of the thread as there are always new models being released.

you'll have to check up online about mac compatibility, as i've read on here that some people have had problems running linux on them for example, and i don't think they state mac compatibility as an official feature. i have a feeling it should be okay though as i think they are b-grade apple screens to begin with and they run the same res as the 27" imacs

BloodBath

Something like this would do nicely. Not sure if you need other peripherals or the os. HWVS don't sell the os anyway.

You should fill out the question form that's in a lot of the posts here and in one of the stickys.

Item|Price
Intel Xeon E3-1230v2, boxed, LGA1155|€203.22
ASRock ZH77 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€69.18
16GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9|€103.49
Samsung SSD 840 250GB SATA 6Gb/s|€147.83
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200 3000GB, SATA 6Gb/s|€222.58
Cooltek Antiphon White, ohne Netzteil|€68.00
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 450W|€49.85
Gainward GeForce GTX 650Ti, 1GB GDDR5, VGA, DVI, Mini HDMI|€112.28
LG 24EA53VQ|€159.00
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€1154.42

Digy123

BloodBath wrote: »

Something like this would do nicely. Not sure if you need other peripherals or the os. HWVS don't sell the os anyway.

You should fill out the question form that's in a lot of the posts here and in one of the stickys.

Item|Price
Intel Xeon E3-1230v2, boxed, LGA1155|€203.22
ASRock ZH77 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€69.18
16GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9|€103.49
Samsung SSD 840 250GB SATA 6Gb/s|€147.83
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200 3000GB, SATA 6Gb/s|€222.58
Cooltek Antiphon White, ohne Netzteil|€68.00
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 450W|€49.85
Gainward GeForce GTX 650Ti, 1GB GDDR5, VGA, DVI, Mini HDMI|€112.28
LG 24EA53VQ|€159.00
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€1154.42

Brilliant! But did i not read somewhere that OS X can only recognize 1 TB internal drives? Sounds crazy but im sure i read it somewhere

indough

there is no dsdt for that motherboard but you might get away with it as it seems to share the same network controller and audio codec as the z77 pro 3, which does have a dsdt. i don't think i'd go with that cpu though, it isn't used in any mac model. you can customise the install to get other cpus to work but are better off using one that apple use in their own computers (the latest imac uses either a 3470 or 3770 for example); hackintosh systems aren't great for stability once you start fiddling with things so it's best to keep them as vanilla as possible really.

tuxy

BloodBath wrote: »

Something like this would do nicely. Not sure if you need other peripherals or the os. HWVS don't sell the os anyway.

You should fill out the question form that's in a lot of the posts here and in one of the stickys.

Item|Price
Intel Xeon E3-1230v2, boxed, LGA1155|€203.22
ASRock ZH77 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€69.18
16GB-Kit G.Skill RipJaws-X PC3-10667U CL9|€103.49
Samsung SSD 840 250GB SATA 6Gb/s|€147.83
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200 3000GB, SATA 6Gb/s|€222.58
Cooltek Antiphon White, ohne Netzteil|€68.00
be quiet! SYSTEM POWER 7 450W|€49.85
Gainward GeForce GTX 650Ti, 1GB GDDR5, VGA, DVI, Mini HDMI|€112.28
LG 24EA53VQ|€159.00
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€1154.42

It's important to get the right motherboard for a Hackintosh, are you sure that asrock board is a good choice?

frozenfrozen

You can run osx in a virtual machine to buy and download your copy of osx (maverick is going to be released soon so it may be worth holding off until then? Although it will just be a further 15 quid to get that so probably definitely not worth waiting)

You can run a hackintosh with nearly any hardware but you'll have to do a lot of programming of kexts yourself, which is a complete pain and requires far too much time and understanding for it to be worthwhile so the best option is to copy someones build nearly exactly from tonymac.
Get 2 USB sticks, it will save you a lot of hassle, one will be your osx install and one will be for all of the bits and pieces you will need to use from within that installation to "keep" the install. You'll learn about that following a build log, but basically there's a program you make the usb bootable with, and a program that makes the installation persistent...

Hackintoshes are a b*tch. They're for enthusiasts and you need to make sure you both understand that before you start. I'm not being condescending but really they are the opposite of apple's "it just works" motto. Literally everything will be broken when you start and you need to fix it. But if you accept that it's a lot of fun getting to really understand how the hardware interfaces with the software, and how the culmination of not working software and hardware interacts with your sanity.

Several 4tb drives?! Get a nice raid card, get her to go through them all and delete the crap and then have them all set up as a huge lovely storage setup for herself with great redundancy. There's no way they could all be 100% full of things with absolutely no crossover (like how I keep both the raw file and the converted dng files with my photography, realistically you just need one, and that more than halves the space taken up)

Account for getting a nice mouse and keyboard in the budget. She will appreciate 100% efficiency on mouse movement rather than 5-10% speed increases on benchmark tests, because in reality the 20 second rendering times don't make much of a difference

BloodBath

I was under the impression you could use almost any hardware but didn't realise it was so much hassle.

I'm guessing your mum is just used to using the photo editing software included with mac os which is why she wants it. There is much better software available for pc. Some of it is free. Photoshop of course is the the big one.

Lu Tze

Just get her a mac mini :pac:

Recurve360

Id follow this guide as it provides compatible hardware and walks you through it step by step.
http://lifehacker.com/the-always-up-to-date-guide-to-building-a-hackintosh-o-5841604