I Switched to Mac…Sort of…
Posted by Stephen on
May 3, 2008
John Chow recently got a MacBookPro. He said he’d run Vista on it, but then had a change of heart when he found out how fast and cool OSX was. Then Ed got a MacbookPro and I saw just how quick it was doing graphics when we were up in Whistler for the Snowboard Festival. I personally think they are way overpriced for the hardware that you get. However, the star of the show is really the operating system which is based on UNIX. After observing what the OS could do, I decided to build my own
I’ve been a PC guy all my life and I’m definitely very capable of building up my own PCs. Afterall, I did come second at this year’s Tiger Direct Charity PC Race in Las Vegas. I scrounged around my mountains of PC Hardware and came up with a bunch of Hackintosh ready parts for my first ever OSX build!
I’m currently running an Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz CPU overclocked to 3.0 GHz with 4 GB’s of RAM and an nVidia 8600 GTS on my new Hackintosh. I call this my Gx HackPro Tower! It’s also attached to a 24 inch display. I don’t want to imagine how much this would be if it was an Apple Branded system. When Apple started using INTEL processors, it totally opened up the operating system to being modified to run on PC Hardware. It’s gotten so easy that the right combination of parts will install almost flawlessly with some minor modifications.
The only PCs in my house will be my gaming rig, my test rig and my laptop (but only because I haven’t been able to successfully install OSX on the Asus U1F). After I finish learning everything I need to know, expect to see a guide with some of my best tips for those who want to build a Hackintosh posted up over at Futurelooks. I guess my next step will be to come up with a HackBookPro or a HackBookAir.
A Mac Pro uses dual Quad Core processors. Your setup is more like an iHack.
Actually, it’s probably more like an iHack Tower. iMac’s have built in monitors. Mine doesn’t. It’s somewhere in between. However, once I get a hold of that dual processor board from Tyan, it WILL be a real HackPro!
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Man…Steve Jobs and his brand police are going to be coming soon…first they’ll put a bag over your head, then throw you into the trunk of an unmarked smartfor2 or Prius, then they’ll tie you up in the maccampus. If you tell them what they want to hear (that Steve Jobs is the god of all things groovy and still a fashionable and hip guy who’s WAY smarter than anyone else, especially bill) they might let you go if you have an iPod with you. Carry a Zune that day, tho, and watch out. They’ll tie you in the air and beat you with iPhones til you burst open. At which point steve will eat your innards and whisper “candy” in an unknown foreign tongue…. (see http://www.stephenfung.net/so-you-want-to-beat-a-pinata-huh/)
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LOL! That’s one of the best comments I’ve seen in a long time!
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Dang Stephen, I can see why you won second place
This is one powerful machine you’re using to run OSX 
-Mike
Hey Stephen, maybe you can share with us how you get hackintosh up and running. I’m very impressed with iMac, but it’s a little pricy… I wanna learn how to do that!!
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I’ll be sure to share my best tips with you all when I figure out what to include in my article.
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Yay the hackintosh! Stephen brought back the Mac Clones! yes when PowerPC first came out other companies were making Macs. It pretty much died out when the G3 came out I think.
But with the MacOS running on Intel, that’s pretty cool. Perhaps we’ll see more main streamed companies or something release hackintoshs for those who don’t want to modify their kernals.
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