Building a custom PC and I was wondering if its possible to run Mac OS instead of windows or Linux?
Anyone?
Thanks
Yes
most of the newer intel stuff is pretty easy to get up and running on os x
Just don’t use some POS and expect Mac OS X to fly
google “hackintosh”
Yes it can be done, but as a warning my Mac loving huge nerd friend even gave up on it eventually and put Win 7 on his hackintosh. Sounds like it’s always a fight with updates constantly breaking stuff.
If you want to do it definitely read up on hackintosh builds and select your hardware based on stuff that is known to work well.
The EFi-X can help with compatibility… If you want to solely run OS X, I would look for recommended parts from Hackintosh forums…
Its very easy to do if you have natively compatible parts, or widely supported ones. Just never expect to update it without checking for compatibility first.
I have done it, and it does run OK, but it usually winds up breaking and not booting. I have never used a EFi-X, however, that supposedly will make install a breeze.
This.
It’s not really going to work all that stellar in my experience but it is intel platform compatible with some hacking/tweaking. Depending on hardware used of course. 
Stop being cheap and just buy a Mac
This is also a great idea…
You can get a previous gen 27" i7 iMac for $1700. A quality DIY build is going to cost at LEAST $1k, and has little resale, is constantly a PITA, and will still suck.
Cant beat a high res 27" IPS display, combined with fairly good hardware… Honestly, it is cheap for what you get.
That’s is the only way i would do a hackintosh IMO. I have one, and updates are not a problem. OSX legitimately thinks it’s on a mac.
thanks guys
i looked at the 27" that bestbuy has for $1700 and its nice but for $1200 my PC will out perform it (including 2TB HDs)
Ill look into it, if it doesnt work…windows 7
:tup:
What are you using the computer for? I love when people do these mega builds to surf the internet and watch porn
Yes, you can make a $1200 computer that will outperform a pre-configured stock clock speed Mac… That isn’t the point. Its comparable speeds, has a warranty, runs OS X perfectly, and has a quality display. A comparable 27" IPS display is about $800 or more… If you are one of the many who don’t give a shit about how wide your color gamut is, go ahead and run that $200 TN panel.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/G0GF0LL/A
Previous gen. (looks the same)
Current gen.
The $1700 27" iMac I assume you are talking about is the base i3 model? Thats a joke compared to the i7, but it honestly is enough performance for most anything standard. I would swing for a new previous gen i7, or a refurb i7 model.
You can find these models cheaper elsewhere if you dig, and save the $200 on tax buying it elsewhere as well. A 2TB HDD can be used externally, or internally. Its not that hard to swap the drive, and a 2TB drive is about $80… I would pull the internal mechanical drive and run a SSD. The iMac’s have 4 slots for RAM, and come with 2x2GB sticks, so get 2 more for $50 to have 8. Comes with a keyboard, mouse, ready to go.
Yeah, I’ve had a handful of these hackintosh builds (still have one as a server actually). Eventually I just went out and bought a mac mini. It runs everything we need (a bit slower than my hackintosh machines, though). Pretty slow when I’m running photoshop, but I just make sure to shut down the big hogs when I’m not using them.
I was running OS X on my dell mini10v for a while, until my fiance ran the fucking updater and blew it up. Now it runs Ubuntu netbook remix. It was a great os x machine though. Too bad she F’ed it up.
You can build a FAST hackintosh for way less than $1k though. I even had one with a Pentium D processor that was pretty fast. My OS X File Server is running a Core2Duo, 4GB ram and a 1TB hdd… and that fucking thing flies.
PC is for gaming, photo editing including PS, lightroom etc etc and video editing etc
I was wondering this the other day. Why would you use OSX as a server? what does it have over windows server, or even linux?
Honestly, at the time I was just building hackintosh machines for fun. Now I have a shitload of data sitting on the mac formatted hdd. I don’t have anything large enough to move it temporarily and rebuild it. So that’s reason #1. Reason #2, I use it for all of my usenet downloading, and I like being able to use the screen sharing feature in OS X to manage all of that. Yeah, I could run use VNC on a linux box, but the screen sharing feature is a hair easier. Reason #3, I hate windows anything. I don’t have a single windows machine at my house. All linux and mac. So I keep what is there because I am lazy, and it works just fine. I don’t see any advantage to migrating to linux.
They make multiple distros of OS X client and server
Server works extremely well it gives you a nice GUI over a BSD backend…Army.mil runs it for their webserver the DoD has a pretty decent implementation of Xserves.
Apple has some cool remote management tools along the ability to quickly deploy a jabber server for ichat
Unfortunately, I’m not running os x server. Their Remote Desktop app is really sweet, I’ve installed that over a basic client install, and I was shocked at the functionality.