Hackintosh > Mac

[Kenrik]

Cost $600

Core i5 750 - 2.67 GHZ
Gigabyte GA-P55M-UDF
4 Gigs G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600 Memory
WD Black 640GB 32 Meg HD
LiteOn DVD Burner
OCZ 600 Watt PSU
eVga GTS 250 1GB
Apple G5 Case
OSX 10.6.3

Cost $199

Dell Mini 9
1.6GHZ Atom
1GB Ram
16Gig SSD
OSX 10.6.3

(FYI, I purchased copies of Snow Leopard from Apple.. They deserve to be paid for their software!)

[Otto.]

iB4AppleHate.

LOLPUN.

[Razi]

Kenrik outta nowherez!

Hackintosh are fun.

[Jesda]

<3 my Gigabytosh

[Joe]

hello there.

in2h8apple.

hatehatehate.

[Jesda]

I gave Ubuntu another chance a couple months ago. Its functional and stable but not enjoyable.

[krash]

DANG! You did the Hackintosh build that I've always wanted to do, complete with the Pro case and everything! Good job dude!

[Joe]

I gave Ubuntu another chance a couple months ago. Its functional and stable but not enjoyable.

nothing about linux will ever be enjoyable haha

[PoorManQ45]

I'm an AMD fan, I have compatibility issue with Hackitosh :-(

I have honestly been looking at EFI-X. Plug it into a USB header and install an unmodified Apple OS without any hassle!

I tried to put it on this system:

MSI K9A2 Platinum
AMD 1055t x6
4GB DDR2
Nvidia GTX295
Dell Perc 5/i
4 640GB WD Blue in Raid 0
Asus BluRay Rom
Lite-On DVDRW

The Perc card is a no go. Only Apple raid cards can work... Really sucks.

I removed the card and had major pains with my graphics card and onboard audio...

Honestly, I'm not sure of the point though other then to just play around.

I really hope you aren't using the Mac version of steam. There have been many reports of ~25~50% FPS increase by running Bootcamp/Windows...

[Kenrik]

Well actually what happened is that the 10.6.4 update BROKE Nividia cards... it had some bug that cut OpenGL performance in Half.

I'm running 10.6.3 until they come out with 10.6.5 to fix what they broke.

I get 70 - 100FPS @ 1920x1080 4X AA

Honestly once you get over 60FPS you're golden... I only have a 60hrz LCD anyway.

I'm still going to dual boot Windows 7 once I get around to buying another hard drive. I have over 100 games on steam (holiday sales.. ) and I need windows to play most of them.

coming soon, GTS 250 SLI and Windows 7

Gigatosh FTW

[f1seb]

Took me 10 minutes to get tired of that "Awesome, Easy, Intuitive, Smooth, Pretty," OS. It has no WOW factor for me at all, does not justify that insane price tag for their computers. It's simply......"meh"

[AppleBonker]

I gave Ubuntu another chance a couple months ago. Its functional and stable but not enjoyable.

What makes an OS "enjoyable"? I'm not hating, it's an honest question. Aside from gaming, I wouldn't use an OS other than some flavor of Linux.