My Hackintosh... and what are you using? |
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 Jul 1 2008, 09:06
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
Regulars will know i'm something of a Mac fan, unfortunately however from a power perspective my current MacBook wasn't really cutting it for some of the stuff I wanted to do. A Mac Pro is well out of my price range, so i've built my own Mac! Although the EULA suggests this is questionable, I've done the best I can by a) having a legal copy of Leopard and
 sticking an Apple sticker on the case. So, it's all fully working and I have a Quad Core, 4GB RAM beast for a shade under 400 quid. Awesome! I'm selling my MacBook to be replaced by a MSI Wind (variant) as my portable machine, and i'm well happy! I'm interested to hear about what kit other people are running as their tech tools? So mine is... - Home built Hackintosh (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4GB RAM, 1.5TB storage (2 x 750GB)) - Advent 4211 (aka MSI Wind), 2GB RAM + 250GB HDD Of course we can expand this to other gadgets too, e.g. - HTC Touch Diamond - Red Zune 80 - Ultimate Ears super-fi 5 Pro They're the gadgets I wouldn't go without...  Care to share? P 
-------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 1 2008, 09:18
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 Hardcore Group: MoDaCo Ad Free Posts: 2,690 Joined: 4th November 2003 From: London Member No.: 20,052 Device(s): HTC Diamond |
You must be unique... a mac and a zune!
I have a Sony Vario SZ71wnc laptop Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T9300 2.5GHz 2Gb Ram 3.6mb mobile broadband built in A MacbookPro 2.2gb processor 2gb ram and a light up apple on the lid. (I only have the macbook pro to support one client who has 15 macbookpro's on a windows network!) A Tytn2 - being replaced this week with a diamond and a raphael coming in september. -------------------- HTC Diamond running Dutty's V1.6 rom.
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Jul 1 2008, 09:21
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
All my music is in WMA and i'm a Napster subscriber, so an iPod is useless!
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 1 2008, 10:37
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TyTNic !  Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
Paul, you must give me more info on how to do this!
I've been using a 10.4 variant within VMWare Player which is nice, but a little sluggish (mainly due to the laptop!). However I'm keen to build a mac, but without the price tag! If I can do it on a laptop too, then even better! And Wow ... the MSI Wind ... how did I let this little beauty slip by me. It's like an EEE ... but usable! With the Atom processor too 
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My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 1 2008, 10:38
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TyTNic ! Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
Oh with regards to tech, I'm embarking on building a home NAS, to store all of my digital media. I'll document and post when I get started on it. But otherwise everything at home is generally connected via lan or wifi.
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My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 1 2008, 10:44
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Here's what I bought from eBuyer (i've now added a second 750GB drive so I can keep a carbon copy backup before I 'tweak' (and risk breaking) the setup)...
 If I built it again i'd probably swap the video card for a 256MB or 512MB GDDR3 (but still 8600 and about the same price) one. P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 1 2008, 10:45
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I have WiFi at home (for laptops etc.), but otherwise 2 Gigabit Ethernet 'islands' (one in the living room with Media Center, NAS and other bits) and one in my home office. The 'islands' are connected via Homeplug, which also has the 360 upstairs and the Orange Livebox on it in various places.
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 1 2008, 12:05
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TyTNic ! Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
Blimey your place sounds same as mine!
Lounge: Media PC - Gigabit wired PS3 - Gigabit wired Apple Airport Express Devolo Homeplug - Mains connected 150 Mbps Hallway: Devolo Homeplug - Mains connected 150 Mbps Netgear DG834N router - connected to engineering socket for best throughput, and with wifi enabled Office: Devolo Homeplug - Mains connected 150Mbps Windows 2003 Server - File/Print/iTunes Library/Media Library/Azureus - Gigabit wired Desktop PC - Running TVersity streaming to PS3 - Gigabit Wires HP Printer - Gigabit wired Otherwise TyTNII, EEE PC, Work Laptop and Home Laptop all using wireless. Netgear Skype Phone ... just couldnt get on with it on the TyTNII. Use the EEEPC in the car with movies, internet and wifi (from the TyTNII) Upcoming changes: Plan to make server much bigger with RAID5 and about 5TB capacity. Server to be stored in garage at new property ... it's cooler and dont have to worry about the heat generated or the noise. Plan to change the wifi router for a Draytek Vigor 2080VN and utilise the two VOIP sockets too. -------------------- --
My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 1 2008, 12:06
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TyTNic ! Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
So Leopard can now run on any intel hardware?? So if I buy Leopard, I can install it onto this for example:
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.203-6345.aspx Or do I need to be aware of certain hardware limitations? -------------------- --
My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 1 2008, 12:11
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
This is a good start...
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.5.2 It's VERY picky about hardware! P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 1 2008, 12:21
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TyTNic ! Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
... or I could copy your hardware list above (since you say it works)
I don't mind building my own, but would have been cool if I could have just installed it on a standard box. Re: The wind, you planning on keeping XP on it? -------------------- --
My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 2 2008, 09:07
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 Addict Group: Posters Posts: 843 Joined: 26th November 2002 Member No.: 140 Device(s): VARIO III |
Hi Paul,
Are you running with a vanilla kernel or patched one? --------------------  |
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Jul 2 2008, 09:11
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
The Wind, i'll run XP unless I can get OSX working!
Shuflie: Vanilla Kernel... P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 2 2008, 09:34
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TyTNic ! Group: News Team Posts: 790 Joined: 26th November 2007 From: Right Here, Right Now! Member No.: 326,361 Device(s): T-Mobile MDA Vario III |
Sounds good to me \o/
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My Toys: TyTNic T-Mobile MDA Vario III - 8GB SD HC - Dutty's Diamond Rom V1.0 wEEEbeastie Asus EEE PC 4GB Black 702 - Pimped with 2GB RAM, 16GB SD HC Class 6, Bluetooth. O-SeXy Advent 4211 - 2GB Ram - 250GB HDD - Running OSX Leopard like a dream! Doris She has bewbs! (Not her real name tho!) |
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Jul 4 2008, 21:06
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 Addict Group: MoDaCo Ad Free Posts: 877 Joined: 17th March 2003 From: UK - Burton on trent Member No.: 3,541 Device(s): P750 / IPHONE / I780 |
Just seen this thread.....
PC not great ..still using socket 939 Its a 4200 x2 runs at 2.2ghz and 2 gb ram 7600gt xfi platinum 4 x 250gb hard drives + 500gb ext 30" monitor alongside a 20" and 24" In desperate need of an upgrade. Also run a top spec mac mini 2ghz with 2gb of ram which i share between the 24" monitor and the TV as a media center. Lappy i have a 12"" samsung q35 also now a MSI wind...Planning on getting rid of the q35 and putting the cash towards a macbook pro. No win mobiles anymore ....currently using a Iphone but getting the 3g on the 11th With the iphone i use some scullcandy buds. Thats about it.   
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Jul 8 2008, 22:14
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 96 Joined: 7th July 2008 Member No.: 405,142 Device(s): M3100 |
A slight bump, but I'm new
 My main PC is a Asus P5B-E mobo with E6600 CPU overclocked a little and 2Gb of ram. The less said about the X300 graphics card the better, although it is running Vista Premium and media centre is great. My laptop is a Compaq F504 with the common faulty wifi problem that still needs me to get off my back side to fix it. I've also got a 600Mhz ITX board that was my file server for a while, but I got bored with it so it's just under my bed sulking now. Planned for the near future is an Intel D945GCLF with a 1.6Ghz Atom that will become my next car PC. I've already got a faulty high-brightness 7" LCD to play with. I think that's all of my gadgets. AV/Camera's don't really count |
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Jul 9 2008, 11:35
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 Did I say that out loud? Group: News Team Posts: 4,514 Joined: 20th August 2003 From: Kent, England Member No.: 13,469 Device(s): Kaiser, Touch |
Can I just ask...
Where do you guys find the time to do this stuff? Keeping up with my emails, RSS, and kids (in no particular order) takes all my time and energy! |
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Jul 9 2008, 12:21
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 Kaiser Chief (not!)  Group: Members Posts: 233 Joined: 17th August 2004 From: Leeds UK Member No.: 53,159 Device(s): Black Diamond & HTC s710 |
QUOTE(chucky.egg @ Jul 9 2008, 12:35)  Can I just ask... Where do you guys find the time to do this stuff? Keeping up with my emails, RSS, and kids (in no particular order) takes all my time and energy! Ditto. I'd love to spend more time 'nerding' as the wife calls it but there just aren't enough hours in the day. My current list: Dell Inspiron 1520 with 4gb RAM 320gb hard disk NEC i-select M5610 (which I'm trying to sell so I can justify getting an EEE or a Wind) A desktop PC cobbled together out of loads of bits I've acquired and can't remember what they are and a few external discs of varying sizes = I was planning on turning it into a server but never had time. HTC Kaiser with TLR ROM HTC s710 with Dr Martin Gonzo's ROM SPV c500 with WM5!!! ipod classic 160gb - nearly full!!!!!!! |
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Jul 9 2008, 12:26
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 19,799 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Sounds to me like you ARE pretty nerded up rameses
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Jul 9 2008, 12:34
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 Regular Group: Posters Posts: 78 Joined: 2nd December 2002 Member No.: 541 Device(s): Touch Diamond |