Can we self assemble a MAC based machine? Like a Mac MINI?

Or


We hack it?

yes, why not?

that is if you can find shops selling parts here

or even the fact that the price will be prohibitively high

plausible, but not practical

I dont think you can.

Oh no wait! They use Intel nowadays, so maybe can. But I'm not sure if the motherboard is the same even if they use Intel.

Build those really small mini ATX computers. Then find a nice white modded case... settle. Nowadays Intel can run OSX what...

it's possible with a hack...
i forgot where i saw the site ady...
only works on Intel platform..

hmm i was wondering y cant we installed mac on ibm compatible pc?i google it but cant find any answer.

here it is... OS X on PC = hackintosh

http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/351942

While current Intel Macs use Intel motherboards etc. they're not exactly the same as the typical ones you buy at LYP. The include among other things the EFI instead of the traditional BIOS and the Trusted Computing module.

But yah, check out the hackintosh thread. I've done it before, it works very well.

Yep.. intel macs use EFI. IINM asus newer board have EFI support but it disable that feature.

Hackintosh require at least SSE2 processor to work

we dun have an OS X cd like we do in Windows?

you can buy Mac OS X cd from apple... and apply the patch to work as hackintosh..

here's another link
Tiger on Intel

Actually, even for the PPC its possible. There's a number of websites out there that talks about these ppc boards and cpus and so on. Possible to order those parts online too, and they'll tell u too which OS its able to boot and so forth. Cant remember the links now though.

PPC???

What does PPC stand for?

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Added on February 25, 2007, 9:53 amQuite difficult for a guy ( very low tech ; less technical skill ) like me to install an OS X on a new system.

Do u have any tutorial videos for it? I can't seem to find 1. Thanx.


I just in need of HELP ... I want to try it out to use a TIGER ..help from any1?

I am assembling the hardware parts now. But there are things that I am not understand?

Hmm..it is really fun though....bbut i really need help...got VIDEOS?

your help would be much appreciated.

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Added on February 25, 2007, 9:55 amJust check on the price of the MAC OS X V10.4.6 TIGER.

Cost about RM588.

This post has been edited by macball: Feb 25 2007, 09:55 AM

That's not true at this time. There are no retail copies of OSX that run on Intel, all of them are for PowerPC. That will most likely change in the next 3-6 months when Leopard comes out.

So for now, the only way to use a hackintosh is download the image illegally

yup there is no retail version of OSX tat run natively on PC. but u can always purchase a copy (in order to support apple/genuine etc and due to *ahem* is not allowed in LYN) and patch it up later with the developed kernel etc.

@macball

all you need is

http://www.osx86project.org/

there is more than enough guide in there... hackintosh does need a lot of reading/research/questioning etc etc to bring it to run happily in ur pc. in addition there is support chat room for it (find it under hackintosh thread i posted above)

haha.. can;t help u on that....
i haven't got to try it yet...
cos most my pc all running on AMD... akaka

AMD can...You need find AMD patch. As long as your processor support SSE2.

Actually if you do the math, it's actually CHEAPER to buy a whole Mac from Apple than if you were to price the components separately.

the mac pro hath spoken

even if you cast aside the price factor, u have to think about AVAILABILITY

and also the hassle free working right out of box..

hmm...really? cheaper than the mac?

Actually, for the fact that u pay the money for the beauty and elegant of the design, not really the entire specs. if compare the specs with the value, I dun think is worth the value?

Not agree?

you hv to consider the included price/cost for the mac os x and the applications pre-bundled like i-life, and front row too..

apart of that, mac hardware is expensive compare to the same of the pc, because they use diff system, for example, desktop pc use typical ram use ddr ram which cheaper compare to so-dimm ram in mac and laptop pc.

other than that, vista for example require high spec computer to run smoothly, which cost not cheap but mac os x can run in comp as low as 256mb ram and low end graphic card smoothly.

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Hackintosh stuff , go to OSX86project.net and read there. I am closing this thread down as its way out of control. There are list of compatible hardware there. One more thing , Hackintosh will never ever replace a real mac. Its just for fun , just trying out OSX on a Generic PC hardware !