Strange how most of the comments don't address the actual question- what off the shelf PC makes a good hackintosh? The only off-the-shelf PC I've seen used rec

Strange how most of the comments don't address the actual question- what off the shelf PC makes a good hackintosh? The only off-the-shelf PC I've seen used recently is a Gigabyte Brix (Gigabyte does make motherboards too but this is a complete computer). Dell, etc. use their own BIOSes and while they may be compatible with hackintoshing, not many people are putting much effort into making them compatible. You may not be able to turn off certain instructions from the BIOS that cause crashes. Avoid AMD processors and AMD/ATI graphics chipsets; not as much effort has been put into making them compatible. One other detail- your legal OS X still has licensing terms that basically say if the box you install it on doesn't have an Apple on it, you're violating them.