Just spent the weekend rebuilding my Hackintosh after my boot disk failed.
Time to start saving for a Mac Pro me thinks.
Time to start saving for a Mac Pro me thinks.
Bahhh!!
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TheDriller
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Funny, I'm also saving for a Mac Pro to replace the current iHac machine. 
its a great way into the world of OS X, but damn it can be too flaky for serious use.
its a great way into the world of OS X, but damn it can be too flaky for serious use.
Funny, I'm also saving for a Mac Pro to replace the current iHac machine.
its a great way into the world of OS X, but damn it can be too flaky for serious use.
Nah, they're not especially flakey. A hard-drive can go literally on any machine, any time.
But it's more the fact that with a real Mac, I'd have been up and running within two hours. With the Hack, it took me two days. Frustrating days.
TheDriller
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Nah, they're not especially flakey. A hard-drive can go literally on any machine, any time.
But it's more the fact that with a real Mac, I'd have been up and running within two hours. With the Hack, it took me two days. Frustrating days.
well, depending on how you went about installing the OS, you can end up running not-so-stable code
but yeah, the main issue is that if anything goes wrong, its a torturous process to get back up and running again.
True-dat. I always go vanilla though; don't want a flakey system. Once I'm up and running, everything is sweet as pie. I used the MyHack distribution, which you merge with your Snow Leopard install DVD. Once you've installed, everything *should* pretty much just work straight away.
I didn't even have to mess around with my graphic card either!!
...too bad I didn't discover it until a few hours ago - the rest of the time, I fucked around with tutorials on InsanelyMac and HDD caddy's! Annoying.
I priced up the Mac I would want to buy, and it would be about £2600 all in. Pretty fucking disgusting that a computer could EVER cost that much. Especially considering that there is nothing inside a Mac Pro that you couldn't buy off the shelf, apart from *maybe* the Logic board.
I didn't even have to mess around with my graphic card either!!
...too bad I didn't discover it until a few hours ago - the rest of the time, I fucked around with tutorials on InsanelyMac and HDD caddy's! Annoying.
I priced up the Mac I would want to buy, and it would be about £2600 all in. Pretty fucking disgusting that a computer could EVER cost that much. Especially considering that there is nothing inside a Mac Pro that you couldn't buy off the shelf, apart from *maybe* the Logic board.
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TheDriller
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Yeah, I was planning to do a fresh "Vanilla" install from the SL DVD sitting on my shelf, but I've decided to not bother and just go for the MacPro.
The system i'm lloking at will be about £2300 in total, thats counting on gettign a display and extra hard-drives elswhere, and counting on the new 6core base-line model being pretty much the same price as the current base-line.
Sure it's pricey, but aren't those Xeon processors crazy expensive to buy anyway? I just checked MacRumors and it says that the new Intel 5600 series chips start at $996 in batches of 1000.
the current gen xeons probably aren't much cheaper.
plus you've got that tank-like case too, buying the equivilant of that thing for a PC build would cost a bit i'd think.
don't get me wrong, the current quad model isn't great value for money at all, but i reckon the 6core models will be better in that department.
kramer1309
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Hmm.. same boat.. still messing around with a hackintosh - straight from the osx install dvd and couple of things to get it to boot.. but the tid bits are left out.
My graphics card shows lower memory and i tried installing a Nenable kext (don't remember if thats the exact one) and i'd boot to a black screen nd not know what to do.
Some issues still like a crash when i try to see the system properties.
But all in all worth the effort, just for the knowledge imo. (a real mac would be way too expensive for me).
My graphics card shows lower memory and i tried installing a Nenable kext (don't remember if thats the exact one) and i'd boot to a black screen nd not know what to do.
Some issues still like a crash when i try to see the system properties.
But all in all worth the effort, just for the knowledge imo. (a real mac would be way too expensive for me).
TheDriller
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kramer1309
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crash - more like a blue screen and apps close then back to fresh, kernel panic (which i got when i tried some NVenabler i think)
My major problem hickup right now is that i need to use a USB mouse and keyboard, the laptop's keyboard and trackpad dont work nd i cant find any way around having all 3 usb ports of my laptop occupied all the time (mouse+keyboard+extHDD:installed on the ext).
My major problem hickup right now is that i need to use a USB mouse and keyboard, the laptop's keyboard and trackpad dont work nd i cant find any way around having all 3 usb ports of my laptop occupied all the time (mouse+keyboard+extHDD:installed on the ext).
Jarkko Mattheiszen
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TheDriller
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Are we still recommending Hackintoshes for audio work or what?
Nah,
I've set my sights on a new Mac Pro for the audio work from now on.
the hackintosh is cool but i'm hesitant to actually recommend it to anyone.
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TheDriller
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indeed, a great way into the whole Mac OS X thing,
and a great way to get comfortable with Logic before dropping a pile of cash on a proper Mac rig.
