I may look into this. I'd love to get some hands-on time with OSX finally. I need to become familiar with it.Yackom wrote:If you want to use something different and you want good user experience make a machine for Mac OS X. All the info you need is here, http://www.osx86project.org/ It's still just enough of a pain in the ass enough to feel like you did something, I did and I really like the machine I made.
I switched to Ubuntu
Thats easy to answer... my "hackintosh" has been running for 5 weeks, the only time I reset it is quiet literally for some sort of update. But then again my windows machines regularly reach that time too.racketboy wrote:I looked into that a while back. How stable and reliable is it on non Apple hardware?Yackom wrote:I've used Linux and FreeBSD a ton of times, and its usually more hassle than whats its worth for anything other than embedded devices with limited use.
If you want to use something different and you want good user experience make a machine for Mac OS X. All the info you need is here, http://www.osx86project.org/ It's still just enough of a pain in the ass enough to feel like you did something, I did and I really like the machine I made.
Though I cannot stress enough how important it is to make the machine for it, don't expect to be able to pull some random components together and get the full experience with video acceleration, sound, sata controller, wireless, ect.. But if you build the machine from the ground up with OSX in mind hand picking each component, especially the motherboard! you can walk way with a mac pro quality computer, for as low as 400, but most probably ~600 if you want something decent (nice dual core, loads of ram, decent video card ect) which can come quiet close to a 1500 dollars in value mac pro if you got it from Apple.