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From the sporadic reading I've done, it doesn't seem like 10.8 will be any more difficult to Hack than 10.7 was. That said, you may want to just hold out for another month or two until a site like tonymacx86 comes out with a recommended hardware build. Buying recommended and well supported hardware can't be stressed enough. That said, people are already running 10.8 DP builds, so I suspect that there will be day-one guides for the currently supported hardware. Upgrading will probably not be a problem, but you may want to just wait and install from scratch.
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So, I have an ancient 1,1 Mac Pro that is getting just a little too old at this point. I was thinking about picking up a Dell XPS 8500 (i7, AMD 7870) to tide me over for the interregnum. Is that a system that lends itself to being a Hackintosh or are there better options for a moderately sporty quasi-xMac?
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| # ? Jun 15, 2012 20:14 |
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drat I wish I had access to a mac to make the Lion + Unibeast usb key. I want to futz around with osx/ios dev (would just throw it on a spare HD or buy a small secondary ssd), but no one I know nearby has one, and I don't really want to go to a bb and have sales people wonder what the hell I'm doing.
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| # ? Jun 15, 2012 23:01 |
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I have a really stable hackintosh build right now. It is an i5 2500k, 8 gigs of ram, and 6870 video card. I am starting up school again and have a x61 tablet that I really want to use onenote with. I am looking for advice in getting vmware, virtual box, or parallels working on this hackintosh. It should hopefully be able to pick up on my wacom bamboo tablet so I can make corrections to the notes I made in onenote. Also onenote should be able to get all my saved stuff from my skydrive.
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| # ? Jun 16, 2012 00:13 |
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Lazy Gun posted:So, I have an ancient 1,1 Mac Pro that is getting just a little too old at this point. I was thinking about picking up a Dell XPS 8500 (i7, AMD 7870) to tide me over for the interregnum. I just did a rudimentary search for 7870 on tonymacx86, and the same for your xps model and neither came up promising to the point where I'd say yes. Your best bet is to piece together a desktop right now. I hate to keep pushing people to tonymacx86, but the reality is that they have a userbase dedicated to building hacks that a single thread on SA can never really hope to achieve. To that end, if you don't want to build a system yourself and want to go for a prefab box I'd go check to see what people there are having luck with  Good luck!
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| # ? Jun 16, 2012 00:47 |
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Tedronai66 posted:drat I wish I had access to a mac to make the Lion + Unibeast usb key. I want to futz around with osx/ios dev (would just throw it on a spare HD or buy a small secondary ssd), but no one I know nearby has one, and I don't really want to go to a bb and have sales people wonder what the hell I'm doing. Running lion in virtualbox might work. It's very unstable, though. But with persistence you could get through the unibeast setup.
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| # ? Jun 16, 2012 17:31 |
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Since I didn't see any mention of it in the OP, Kakewalk is a pretty good alternative if you have trouble with Unibeast (like I did). Just used it to throw OS X on my PC the other day! If your only mac came with Lion pre-installed, here's a guide I used for creating a full USB installer image w/out buying a second copy of Lion.
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| # ? Jun 17, 2012 14:20 |
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canada jezus posted:I'm pretty interested in building a hackintosh, is it best to wait until mountain lion is out, or will it take like 7 months before you can upgrade after anyway? I have no idea of the timeframe on things like this. If you picked the right hardware, a Lion to ML upgrade might be easy enough to just install Lion now and upgrade later. But you would have to pay $30 for Lion and $20 more for ML. I would wait a month, especially if you're putting it on a laptop or some uncooperative hardware.
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| # ? Jun 17, 2012 14:46 |
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Someone earlier mentioned you may create your OS X Lion install over a VM running OS X Lion. I've got OS X Lion running over VMWare Workstation 5 and my USB Drive refuses to be detected. I've found http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...ernalId=2004687 but this didn't help. Any ideas? I've been searching for the last few minutes and I'm out of luck it appears.
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| # ? Jun 18, 2012 08:41 |
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Experto Crede posted:Running lion in virtualbox might work. It's very unstable, though. But with persistence you could get through the unibeast setup. I actually have a VMware image for osx lion, but since i built my new computer I haven't been able to get that to be happy. I'll give it another round today.
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| # ? Jun 18, 2012 15:46 |
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Okay so I have been messing around with bios setting on my mobo with no avail. I keep getting this error message when I try to install Leopard. I am using a burnt copy of ipc 10.5.6 Edit: I fixed that issue with my cpu, now it is giving me an error that I can not find. new link: [url]http://tinypic.com/r/qrnq0z/6[?url] Aoifern fucked around with this message at Jun 18, 2012 around 23:15 |
| # ? Jun 18, 2012 22:23 |
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Hey guys, i got a Macbook Pro at the moment but im thinking about buying a desktop because the Macbook never leaves the desk anyway! How much would i need to pay for a good Hackintosh with which i even could play some games.I got an Dell u2711 aka 2560*1400 resolution. So i probably need an expensive GPU?
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 21:34 |
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johnnyXcrane posted:Hey guys, Because I'm so nice, I will spec out a system for you. 
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 22:34 |
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Thanks man! And that system is really fast? The thing is for that kind of money i could buy a iMac 27" too, especially if i sell the Dell u2711. Maybe i should wait for the new iMac update, perhaps they finally use stronger GPUs (hah who am i kidding). And how loud would your configured system be?
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 23:06 |
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johnnyXcrane posted:Thanks man! He slotted in an Ivy Bridge 3.4, a 256 GB SSD, and a 2 GB video card, for those specs you're looking at a Mac Pro for $2500, not an iMac for $1200. Ramp back on the video card and SSD, maybe the processor, and you're still sitting pretty.
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 23:13 |
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It all depends on the games you want to play, really. You're going to need a big beefy video card to fill that monitor, but if all you play is TF2 or something then you can scale back. For anything new I wouldn't. That's a pretty ballin' system, though.
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 23:22 |
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DukAmok posted:He slotted in an Ivy Bridge 3.4, a 256 GB SSD, and a 2 GB video card, for those specs you're looking at a Mac Pro for $2500, not an iMac for $1200. Ramp back on the video card and SSD, maybe the processor, and you're still sitting pretty. I'm just waiting for when he orders all that and comes back for troubleshooting when it doesn't work. :|
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 23:23 |
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mediaphage posted:I'm just waiting for when he orders all that and comes back for troubleshooting when it doesn't work. :| For fun I tried to spec out something similar on Apple's store, I ended up somewhere around $4,000. But yeah, I actually have no idea if that particular build would even work, though I have faith. I cobbled together a system only loosely following guides and it's really worked like a charm, through several OS updates. It's fairly point and click these days, a far cry from the headaches I read about and scared me off two years ago. edit: wait is that HDMI cable free?!
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| # ? Jun 19, 2012 23:31 |
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I don't mean any offense by this but if you know nothing about building a PC then a Hackintosh might not be for you. I'm not trying to be insulting or anything, just trying to instill realistic expectations. Treat it as a learning experience and you'll be fine. You will have a very powerful Mac (Apple's pro towers are so old now that Hacks are faster and better equipped) at a decent price. However if you want a turnkey system then an iMac is a much better fit for you. Anyway that build shown is kinda bad because it starts from the parts. A 670 in particular does not work under OS X. You should start from the OS and get the parts that are well supported.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 00:24 |
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Lazy Gun posted:So, I have an ancient 1,1 Mac Pro that is getting just a little too old at this point. I was thinking about picking up a Dell XPS 8500 (i7, AMD 7870) to tide me over for the interregnum.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 02:48 |
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~Coxy posted:I don't mean any offense by this but if you know nothing about building a PC then a Hackintosh might not be for you. I'm not trying to be insulting or anything, just trying to instill realistic expectations. Yes it does.  Use this from step 5 on. I know that build works, because I built it for a friend today.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 03:30 |
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Just read the netkas kepler thread. Wow, the progress made with the MBP2012 kexts in just a few days is pretty amazing. I will note that the article you linked says: quote:However, remember that Graphics Enabler is turned off. This means that you will not be able to play most video games. In addition, you won't be able to run DVD Player, Geekbench, or several other apps that require Graphics Enabler. That's incorrect/out of date, right? If so a new card might be in my future.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 04:07 |
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Sinestro posted:Because I'm so nice, I will spec out a system for you. Wouldn't HDMI limit his resolution? I have the U2711 too and it needs either DisplayPort or Dual-Link DVI
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 04:59 |
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~Coxy posted:That's incorrect/out of date, right? Yeah, GE is working now. NOTE: Not all 670s work. Only reference designs and the MSI one with the fancy cooler work.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 05:08 |
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I totally forgot that i got a 2year old desktop pc that i never used since i got the MacBook. Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3L Intel Core i5-760 Box 8192Kb, LGA1156 4GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1333 CL9 MSI N450GTS Cylone 1GD5/OC, 1024MB, GDDR5, PCI-Express Would that thing work as a Hackintosh? And would it be enough to just upgrade the GPU to play games like BF3 on 2560*1440, or is the CPU too slow?
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 05:28 |
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johnnyXcrane posted:I totally forgot that i got a 2year old desktop pc that i never used since i got the MacBook. You're pretty much golden as far as running a hackintosh goes. As for the games, I think you should be okay too. Good luck and enjoy the ride 
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 15:34 |
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johnnyXcrane posted:I totally forgot that i got a 2year old desktop pc that i never used since i got the MacBook. CPU is fine for BF3, though you will likely want to bump up your ram to at least 8GB (if not more, depending on price) because OSX loves memory (and so do most games). You definitely want to bump up your video card if you're going to be doing any serious gaming at that resolution.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 15:41 |
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Tryke posted:Since I didn't see any mention of it in the OP, Kakewalk is a pretty good alternative if you have trouble with Unibeast (like I did). Just used it to throw OS X on my PC the other day! I will say that I feel like I took a noticeable performance hit by upgrading to Lion. I'm running a Core 2 Quad and a Radeon 4870, so I shouldn't be too surprised. Still, I just miss things being buttery smooth. I wonder if an SSD would change that.
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| # ? Jun 20, 2012 19:50 |
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johnnyXcrane posted:I totally forgot that i got a 2year old desktop pc that i never used since i got the MacBook. I would give it a shot, gigabyte mobo + i-series CPU is the best for a hackintosh. But for games, I have a 1gb Geforce 430 and that's just adequate for indie games at 1024x768. The 450 probably needs an upgrade.
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| # ? Jun 21, 2012 01:04 |
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Demie posted:I would give it a shot, gigabyte mobo + i-series CPU is the best for a hackintosh. But for games, I have a 1gb Geforce 430 and that's just adequate for indie games at 1024x768. The 450 probably needs an upgrade. Has anyone tried this out with an asus z77/ivy bridge processor yet? I wasn't pondering hackintosh when I bought my setup, but now that I am, I wonder if it'll work. I seem to have lost my 8gb usb drive, so looks like an amazon order before I can even try it.
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| # ? Jun 21, 2012 15:46 |
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Well I got it installed, but looks like there'll never be good support for my 7950 card. Maybe someone with a gtx670 would swap, since it looks like kepler might be supported.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 03:26 |
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All I wanted for my 2010 Mac Pro was a better video card. The latest Lion drivers from nVidia supports the 400 and 500 series cards, so I picked up a decent GTX 570. It installed fine and runs fine, but the screen is black before boot up. This is mainly a problem if I need to choose the startup disk at startup by holding down "option". You don't see anything, so you can't pick a disk. Is there a way to make that work again?
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 21:48 |
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I'm going to try to hackintosh my Probook 4420s this week, hope it goes well. Would I be able to throw Mountain Lion on it? I've read the OP but I was wondering if the new update would break anything in terms of compatibility.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 21:48 |
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Sevron posted:All I wanted for my 2010 Mac Pro was a better video card. The latest Lion drivers from nVidia supports the 400 and 500 series cards, so I picked up a decent GTX 570. It installed fine and runs fine, but the screen is black before boot up. This is mainly a problem if I need to choose the startup disk at startup by holding down "option". You don't see anything, so you can't pick a disk. Is there a way to make that work again? I think you're out of luck. Apple EFI and VBIOS don't really cooperate so I don't think you'll have much luck unless someone comes out with a ROM flash for your card or something. Sadly, your best bet is probably just to keep the other card around for emergencies where you need to boot to a different partition. Impractical, but realistically your best option. Blackula69 posted:I'm going to try to hackintosh my Probook 4420s this week, hope it goes well. Would I be able to throw Mountain Lion on it? I've read the OP but I was wondering if the new update would break anything in terms of compatibility. It's anyone's guess until it comes out for real, but generally speaking if it 10.7 works then it's LIKELY that 10.8 will as well. That said, I think Apple did drop support for a few older Macs in 10.8 based on 32/64bit EFI (which doesn't really apply to Hacks) so they MAY have dropped some support for hardware that was also specific to those macs. It's hard to say conclusively. Martytoof fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 21:57 |
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My probook is an i3 from 2011, I feel like it's recent enough that it wouldn't get booted. I want me some sweet, sweet synthesis between my phone and my laptop. For free.
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Blackula69 posted:My probook is an i3 from 2011, I feel like it's recent enough that it wouldn't get booted. I want me some sweet, sweet synthesis between my phone and my laptop. For free. What's your graphics chip? From google I see Intel HD graphics, but 2000 or 3000? I suspect 3000, based on some more googling, in which case you're hot to trot. If it's 2000, you've lost the OS X Laptop Bingo, I'm afraid.
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Unfortunately I think it might be the radeon mobility chip. Will investigate
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 23:29 |
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Martytoof posted:I think you're out of luck. Apple EFI and VBIOS don't really cooperate so I don't think you'll have much luck unless someone comes out with a ROM flash for your card or something. Thanks for the response. I had been thinking of installing that MultiBeast tool because a netkas thread made it sound like that could help (GraphicsEnabler=Yes), but it also seemed like the tool is only designed to be used on Hackintoshes, not regular Macs. I actually have both cards crammed in the case now, so all I have to do is swap power cables and the video cable. I was trying to find a power supply I could tuck into the unused optical drive bay that could power either the video card, but elementary googling hasn't turned anything useful up. If you knew one off the top of your head, tell me? Otherwise I'll keep looking tonight, seems like the kind of thing others might find useful.
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| # ? Jul 2, 2012 00:03 |
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Just use Sys Prefs to select the partition to boot into. There are also scripts that accomplish the same thing I'm pretty sure, for this exact reason.
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| # ? May 22, 2013 09:28 |
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Experto Crede posted:What's your graphics chip? From google I see Intel HD graphics, but 2000 or 3000? I suspect 3000, based on some more googling, in which case you're hot to trot. If it's 2000, you've lost the OS X Laptop Bingo, I'm afraid. If it's an Arrandale (Nehalem) i3, it's just "Intel HD Graphics." HD 2000 and 3000 are the Sandy Bridge models. HD Graphics was used in the 2010 MBPs, switchable with the GeForce 3x0M chips, so it should be fully supported.
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