by Tony Mattke on February 22, 2010
This is a follow up to my previous Hackintosh post chronicling the build and setup of my ‘Hack Pro’. My original goal was to build a Mac Pro clone using off the shelf parts, with the ability to do Apple Software Updates on a retail, unmodified OS X installation as you would with a real Mac. So far, using the steps described here, I’ve been successful.
There are several methods that have worked for many people, but had little success on my system. The myHack installer allows you to highly customize your install, and honestly learn a lot more about what you’re doing in the process since its more of a manual operation than others.
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by Tony Mattke on February 9, 2010
Over the past couple months, the lack of desktop here at home has driven me up the wall. Turning to my laptop time and time again, hooking it up to an external monitor while consulting helped, but no laptop can truly replace the performance of a decent desktop. So after after drooling over the current Mac Pro systems, and then realizing I could buy 2 new laptops for the same price… I decided to look into the hackintosh world. While I’ve installed OS X on non-Apple hardware before, I’ve never done it on a system that I am planning to depend on. To me, that means I need a system that is not only rock solid, but is easily update-able.
After doing some digging through the OS X 86 Project wiki and the Insanely Mac forums I was able to determine that there are several platforms that provide excellent support, and stability. I finally settled on the following hardware.
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