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After attempting to get a Hackintosh up and running a couple of times (and failing), I would advice anyone who attempts this and intends to remain somewhat hone
by trezor 17y ago
After attempting to get a Hackintosh up and running a couple of times (and failing), I would advice anyone who attempts this and intends to remain somewhat honest, to stall the purchase of a proper version OS X until you actually have a successful, working install.
In my opinion getting the install to work can easily be considered more complex than getting an equivalent box running Linux properly was back in the days.
- devin 17y agoI respectfully disagree for one reason and one reason only. The insanelymac forums have guide upon guide for all sorts of hardware configurations. There is a hardware compatibility list that gives you a good starting point for buying compatible hardware. Finally, the use of Boot-132 in conjunction with Chameleon has made setting up a completely flawless 10.5.x install pretty simple compared to what it used to require. Although, you might be right. I am very conveniently forgetting the 2-3 days I spent tinkering with broken installations a year ago. It takes time to learn some of the stuff, but for most of the folks on HN I would assume you'd have little trouble getting it working after a little reading and googling.