Comments on: DIY Hackintosh Tutorial: Build a Mac Pro for Cheap

By: Velvet

Velvet — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:17:48 +0000

this hackintosh is poweful but not as Mac …

By: Wii Homebrew

Wii Homebrew — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:30:53 +0000

This article gives the light in which we can observe the reality. this is very nice one and gives indepth information. thanks for this nice article.

By: Lou Cioccio

Lou Cioccio — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Well this is my third STABLE hackintosh. The first one was a ASUS board died because of bad caps. I replaced it with a DG35EC and now with a Gigabyte EP45UD3R. Both are stable with 10.6.2 and can be updated through Apple software update. I retired the wife G4 bought new in 2000 and the G5 will become a server. The Gigabyte is running a Q9400, Nvidia 8600GTS 256MB, 3- Sata hard drives, 1 DVD Writer, 8 GB RAM and 650watt power supply driving dual monitors. I have FCE4HD, CS4extended and I was able to tune a guitar in garage band that was verified by a musician since I cannot play it. I have saved money, Apple has gotten my money just like Adobe and other software vendors.

By: jd

jd — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:17:03 +0000

fiddling around is cool and all that it can be done, but for many who are on mac pro, it is just not worth it, if you are a company or even freelance small company, it doesn’t become useful as the risk because it is illegal to do so well, that is worth the 1000 premium…
i’ve done linux on dreamcast, other builds, anyway its all just experimental…

if you are in range of using the mac not as a show off piece but actual production, it just isn’t worth it to go this route…if u want to save money drop in ssd’s or extra ram on an older used mac pro.

By: Traffic Ultimatum

Traffic Ultimatum — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:40:41 +0000

Hate to be a pain, but your hacked stuff wont last long at all. Appreciate you sharing the info, though.

By: GregorySmith

GregorySmith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:50:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing great information.

By: Greg Fox

Greg Fox — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:47:59 +0000

Looks like a better and cheaper way than buying it.

Thanks

By: traffic ultimatum

traffic ultimatum — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:25 +0000

Very helpful article, big thanks, this is what I was looking for! I will test it and tell you the results

By: Gary Gregory

Gary Gregory — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:07:35 +0000

Very interesting read. I am also concerned about the stability and the upgradeability (if that’s a word), of this. Can you elaborate about this?

By: johnson

johnson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:37:47 +0000

EFI wont let me update or I can not update with EFI

By: reges

reges — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:08:25 +0000

let me see the tutorial

By: SirToby

SirToby — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:42:28 +0000

@Tom

The article wasn’t written in 2010. When this Article was written, getting OS X onto a “stock” PC was still a bit of an adventure. I for one was pretty happy about the article back then. My 1st “Hack” is approaching its 2nd b’day soon and it’s still going strong. No probs and no hassles. Sure, it’s not a real Mac but that’s what I have a nice MBP and an “ancient” G4 PowerMac for.

The two Hacks I built are solid and reliable machines which haven’t caused any grief whatsoever. The article may not be up-to-daye with the times but was good help a couple of years ago. If you hate it so much, write a new and better one, reflecting today’’s methods on building a Hack. I’m sure it would be appreciated.

By: Si

Si — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:46:33 +0000

sort it out!

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By: me

me — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:30:54 +0000

test

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:11:17 +0000

Dude! In the year 2010, this is the most pathetic way to build a hackintosh. Use something like Empire EFI to boot into the installer and then buy a snow leapord retail disk and you are all set. And just remember to have at least a Core 2 Duo processor. This is just a horrid article!

By: Stove99pipe

Stove99pipe — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:43:06 +0000

Do youse have any idea what this comes to in Canadian $$$ ? I get the feeling that building a computer (Mac or otherwise) would be more $$$ up here vs searching for bargins.

I agreee that the knowledge base acquired is priceless, of course, and I’ll prolly try to do this if I get some time

Cheers
SP

By: ok

ok — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:34:18 +0000

let’s see the rest

By: really?

really? — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:20:25 +0000

does this really work? want to read….

By: wthey

wthey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:22:07 +0000

what?

By: test

test — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:19:23 +0000

tutorial

By: test

test — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:48:51 +0000

test test test

By: dickie

dickie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:42:46 +0000

I can only reda the article up to the sentence “Next let’s take a look at some of the costs involved…”

WTF? where’s the rest of it?

By: Maccmann

Maccmann — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:47:20 +0000

Ok, dudes. I’m throwing a HUGE WTF here. After I posted the above comment, THE TUTORIAL MAGICALLY APPEARED!!

Now I have to throw a big WTF to your web admins.

wow….

By: Maccmann

Maccmann — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:45:36 +0000

What tutorial??? Where??? All I see here is benchmarks and a pic of a couple of screens that as far as I can tell are hooked up to a Mac! I see no links to any “tutorials” anywhere on your article. Nice time-waster for us! Thanks for that.

Anyhow, if anyone wants a REAL tutorial, go to insanelymac.com and search for stuff there.

By: Google Sniper bonus

Google Sniper bonus — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:56:06 +0000

It didn’t work on my Xeons and same questio with Crash, does it work with 2TB drives?

By: Cec

Cec — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:46:08 +0000

http://www.psystar.com/rebel_efi

Get tried and tested hardware specs here that wont break on Update.\

My work is too important for Mickey Mouse stuff, so I have a real Mac Pro. But it’s great for the kids etc

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:25:37 +0000

Eugene,

Your the idiot. I’m the best boy. If you were 1% of the smart M..F that you think you are then you wouldn’t be so dumb.

Are you a rip off artist too?

You need to take my toilet paper machine and try selling that.

BISCUIT BONER.

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By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:01:23 +0000

Figured it out. . . talk about counter intuitive site navigation. Damn . . .