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DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap
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
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
