Hackintosh

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Well there's 4 days out of my life I'll never get back but I finally got OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion installed and stable on the near new PC from my dome.
I had to replaced that PC with an AMD box to solve some issues I was having, so why not.

So it can be done, but what a hassle ;)

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Ah, beautiful sight, exactly like the computer I am on now, LOL.
Why though? And I mean it, why would you do this?
Gary

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I wanna write an iPhone app to control my garage door :D

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Got to get my x6 1055T hackintoshed :) Great work if your done it amd style as its much harder then intel chipsets. Lol have done that many notebooks with snow and leo in the past its no longer funny. Did you use a distro or did you do it from retail?

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No, it's an i3 machine, I had to put an AMD in the dome and it's way slower now :(

I bought snow leopard on line and got that DVD going with a boot disk so I could make a usb drive install of mountain lion.
Leopard doesn't support the new hardware in this PC, only MLion comes close. Even the usb3 ports look to be working :)

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Jay, just realised that is an AMD box. Don't even try. You'll end up hairless and with open sores from scratching yourself for weeks on end. Get compatible hardware in the first place.

Straight up, I swapped the i3 chip that was on there (i3 3220) which had a 2500 GPU for an i3 3225 which had a 4000 GPU. The 4000 is compatible the 2500 isn't. Non compatible hardware stops it from booting.

Biggest problem I had was getting a copy of ML to make a USB boot disk with. You can only buy it on line at the app store. I tried the local Apple Shop and they don't sell it on USB, so you need a working mac machine to buy/download it. Booting SLeopard from a boot disk, App Store does not work so there's the catch 22.

Getting that sorted and hacking uniBeast is the hard bit :)

But I could really get used to this. I like it. Got xcode4 incoming right now.
robin.

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Yer iv'e done my fair share of kext editing work man, you can check me out on insainlymac haha. AMD can be done though its alot more work like you said, have a g5 case here and a nice selection of core2 mbs to build one with, just haven't had the time lol. I love how the mac people get upset when many other hackintosh builders have a i7 oc'd to 4.5ghz packed with a gtx 580 and it leaves there $3000 mac in the dust the most haha. Thanks to DSDT editing hackintosh's really are the worlds best macs now.

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Nice work! Wouldn't it have been easier just to run OS X in a virtual machine, though?? :)

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The misses got the arse from work in Cambell Newmans fix for QLD and is on frigging facebook a lot, so no it wasn't easier :)

It was easier to use another machine :)

I really miss the address bar in explorer/finder on this mac apart from that, I even got VNC java version working to the dome tonight :)

The original purpose of this was to code up an iPhone app to talk to the ardunio micro controller that monitors the garage here. You need a mac to run xcode to write iPhone apps. I downloaded some iPhone app how to videos from the Apple developer site and they showed up in iTunes. When I go to play them it tells me that they require quicktime and my iTunes does not support quicktime. hmmm..... I'll try on the widoze box.