OSX on PC

[kaidomac]

no idea why youd want osx on a non mac..

For me it is to save money. I just spent $1300 on parts and got better equipment than the Mac Pro I configured on Apple's website for $5115...that's over $3800 in savings. I made sure to choose compatible parts, plus the PC EFI system allows you to let you run a vanilla kernel so that you can download updates and whatnot. I also bought Leopard just so I wouldn't be a complete hack

[kaidomac]

Here's a nice detailed thread by a guy who installed the jas version on a badaxe2 -

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.p...pic=46317&st=0

Looks pretty good to me. Plus it's still active thread.

I've talked with a number of Hackintosh builders/owners and the consensus seems to be that the Bad Axe 2/7000-series Nvidia card is the most compatible system, followed by Gigabyte/Asus boards and 8800-series cards. Some ATI cards work and laptops have marginal support, but it seems like if you really want a fully-compatible Hackintosh you'll have to spend a bit of green on the Intel BA2 board.

[kaidomac]

So get a nice Apple sticker, and slap it on your PC. Whalla - your PC is now "Apple-labled".

Regardless, who cares, illegal or not - if you want to do it, go for it ... if not, don't complain about people who do.

I don't think Apple is going to care too much as long as you buy the official Leopard discs and don't start selling clones. That way at least they're making money off the OS discs; they're not really losing money on hardware since Hackintosh users would probably never buy a Mac anyway lol.

[kaidomac]

If you ask me its a poor decision by apple to not open up their OS to PC computers.

Of course their hardware sales may suffer a bit but just look at Microsoft and u can see the potential.

In this case I would definitely say the pros outweigh the cons.

As hard as it is for me to say, I have to disagree. The primary reason OS X is so stable is because they control all Mac hardware. They write the drivers for the hardware they make, integrate, and sell in their computers. Windows will probably never get the kind of stability that Mac users enjoy because of this. With that said, I would like to see OS X released for normal PC computers. Even if they charged double ($200ish) for the OS, I'm sure people would buy it.

[kaidomac]

so can i run mac on a intel quad 6850

man if i can with my 4 wd 1,000 rpm hard drives that would make me very happy

The quad should work fine, but I don't know about the 4 drives (at least in RAID). As far as I know, no one has gotten a RAID set on a Hackintosh to act as a boot drive. Whether that's a technological limitation or not, I don't know. It may be possible to setup the Kalyway formatting disc to create a software RAID set before you install a BrazilMac-patched Leopard disc; it may also be possible to use a PC RAID card in this type of setup. I believe a company just released a bootable RAID card for the Mac Pro, but even if it's it compatible with OS X/Hackintosh I don't know if it would work on actual PC hardware. I have an older IDE RAID card that I'll try out when I get my Hackintosh parts in next week. If it's transparent to the hardware, then I don't see why OS X wouldn't support it.

[kaidomac]

Check out this Hackintosh - e6600 with osx86.

That's disgusting (in an awesome way!)

[kaidomac]

got leopard 581 GM working on both my Asus P5W DH and Asus P5E3 Deluxe

How'd you get the 802.11n Ralink card in your sig working? Default or drivers?

[AMD666]

Even if you have a valid copy of Mac OS X that isn't installed on a Mac. It is still illegal. It says right in the license agreement that it must be installed on a Mac computer.

Yup. Apple does not support it's OS being installed on a PC, period.

[tux08902]

I don't understand. It would bring in more money if they make OS X available to everyone.

[lowfat]

I've talked with a number of Hackintosh builders/owners and the consensus seems to be that the Bad Axe 2/7000-series Nvidia card is the most compatible system, followed by Gigabyte/Asus boards and 8800-series cards. Some ATI cards work and laptops have marginal support, but it seems like if you really want a fully-compatible Hackintosh you'll have to spend a bit of green on the Intel BA2 board.

since when would 8800s work? When i was planning on doing OSX86 back in may with a GA-P35-DQ6 and an 8800, there was no support for 8800s.

[lowfat]

I don't understand. It would bring in more money if they make OS X available to everyone.

more money in OS sales, but would hurt their hardware says significantly. Which is where all their money is made.

[MuffinFlavored]

since when would 8800s work? When i was planning on doing OSX86 back in may with a GA-P35-DQ6 and an 8800, there was no support for 8800s.

Amen.
Same motherboard, same graphics card.
I see NVInject with 8800 support now. So.

[ripken204]

since when would 8800s work? When i was planning on doing OSX86 back in may with a GA-P35-DQ6 and an 8800, there was no support for 8800s.

yep there are 8800 drivers now.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65849

works perfectly with my 8800gts

[lowfat]

yep there are 8800 drivers now.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65849

works perfectly with my 8800gts

Hmmm, I sold my PC and bought a mac just because I couldn't get OSX to work properly on it. Maybe it is time to rethink my situation.

[Concorde Rules]

I don't understand. It would bring in more money if they make OS X available to everyone.

No, it wouldn't.

If I could have done that I wouldn't have bought a £1500 Mac Book Pro with £300 of accessories for it.

I could have built a SLI'ed Quad Core WaterCooled PC for that with money to spare.

I love my MacBook Pro. Leopard is stable. It all works.

OS X on Macs forever

Oh and FYI. I have the PC in my sig as well

[joe.denice]

hey guys, I was wondering what board and video card should I go with for my setup I want do use. I am going to build a test box with a dual boot osx and windows server 2003 testing purposes.

[tdream]

I don't understand. It would bring in more money if they make OS X available to everyone.

Can you imagine the amount of support and scaleability that would require? Supporting OSX's on pcs would take over the whole company, they'd have no time to do anything else.

[ineedaname]

Can you imagine the amount of support and scaleability that would require? Supporting OSX's on pcs would take over the whole company, they'd have no time to do anything else.

Not really cuz they could just leave it up 2 the other companies 4 drivers.

[joe.denice]

well i went ahead and tried this out on my test box and now everytime it boots OSX asks me to restart my machine and thats the farthest i can go

[kaidomac]

yep there are 8800 drivers now.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65849

works perfectly with my 8800gts

Yup I have a 320mb XFX 8800 GTS and it works splendidly. 10.5.2 has support for G92 cards, so we should be able to use 8800 GT video cards pretty soon too:

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=77020

[ocZZZ]

I have osx installed on my p5k premium/q6600 watercooled system and it is simply amazing. I will never go back to windows.

[393]

Has anyone got the onboard LAN (marvel) on ASUS motherboards to work under OS X?

[FabricioGS]

Has anyone got the onboard LAN (marvel) on ASUS motherboards to work under OS X?

Take a look at this topic: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34074

[393]

Take a look at this topic: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34074

Thanks

I'll give that a try when I finish getting leopard

[gndolfo]

Hello, it's my first time in this forum. I have a PC with this configuration:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 (http://www.giga-byte.es/products/mb/...5t-dq6_10.html)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 2x1 Gb Kingston 800mhz
Graphic Card: Nvidia 8600GTS
Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! (5.1) (note: the motherboard has one, but i've dissabled because can't rule on linux)
Hard Disk: 2x400 GB Sata2 SEAGATE

Can i configure this PC to boot like "hackintosh". I've think install dual boot in hard drive 1 (linux and windows with grub) and hackintosh in other one, and i select with what hard drive boot in bios configuration (or is possible trial boot).

I've a Macbook also, but I'm new in "hackintosh experience" xDD.

Sorry for my english, and thanks for your help.