How to roll your own Mac for under $240
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How to roll your own Mac for under $240
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Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#2I'm not sure how this is better than dual-booting on your current machine, or using an old pc.
Am I missing something?
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#3Why is this being voted up? He advocates downloading Leopard from the pirate bay. The only 'Mac' thing about this computer is the OS and he recommends stealing it.
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#4$240 plus a DMCA violation and stealing a $100 piece of software to end up with a beyond low end Mac that breaks as soon as you perform a system software upgrade (according to the article).
Just go the mall early with a brick, you know, when the walkers are getting their exercise. Throw the brick through the window of the Apple store and steal a mini. Its a better machine and Apple probably won't mind since they need to flush the inventory before next weeks announcements. Why, you are probably doing them a favor since they can write off the retail price as a loss from theft instead of flushing it at a reduced price. No one gets hurt, same as the original article.
(Ok, the mini isn't better if you want the two 3.5" SATA bays, in that case steal it the way the author documents.)
[Downvoted? At least I amused myself. Perhaps I should have added a smiley somewhere.]
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#5I'm not sure how this is better than dual-booting on your current machine, or using an old pc. Am I missing something?
Yeah well, driver headaches if you don't pick your hardware carefully. Nobody will release OSX drivers & you don't want to depend on third party drivers. They all suck.
I actually hit this hard a few months ago while trying to turn my laptop into a hackintosh. It would only boot once every 3 tries. And ultimately there's nothing special about the OS. I missed my apt & kde4
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#6Important caveat at the end:
"Also, doing the non-program updates (system updates) seems to screw it up. I'm not sure why and I am finding a fix but for now just update iTunes and the like."
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#7Important caveat at the end: "Also, doing the non-program updates (system updates) seems to screw it up. I'm not sure why and I am finding a fix but for now just update iTunes and the like."
Thats because in order for osx86 to work, you have to hack the kernel and several kext's. They all get reset and updated in system updates.
FWIW, not even iTunes updates can be safe. They update Quicktime a well - which Apple has used to break osx86 in the past.
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#8Important caveat at the end: "Also, doing the non-program updates (system updates) seems to screw it up. I'm not sure why and I am finding a fix but for now just update iTunes and the like."
Also, only 12mbps usb.
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#9Why is this being voted up? He advocates downloading Leopard from the pirate bay. The only 'Mac' thing about this computer is the OS and he recommends stealing it.
Why would that stop it being voted up? Things don't stop being interesting just because they are illegal.
Also, he advocates stealing it or buying it.
Re: How to roll your own Mac for under $240
#10I'm not sure how this is better than dual-booting on your current machine, or using an old pc. Am I missing something?
Yeah well, driver headaches if you don't pick your hardware carefully. Nobody will release OSX drivers & you don't want to depend on third party drivers. They all suck. I actually hit this hard a few months ago while trying to turn my laptop into a hackintosh. It would only boot once every 3 tries. And ultimately there's nothing special about the OS. I missed my apt & kde4
ultimately there's nothing special about the OS
I would dispute that... except that I suspect that it might be much more true if you're foolish enough to go the Hackintosh route.
The whole point of the Mac OS is that everybody is using more or less the same thing: similar OS, similar software, similar hardware, similar drivers. That makes it fairly easy to adopt tips and techniques from the community, or to Google for applicable advice, and it makes the user experience smoother and simpler. Once you throw away much of the ease of installation and maintenance, the consistency, and the stability the Mac OS is not that much more than Unix with pretty windows and a stricter set of UI guidelines -- and there are plenty of ways to prettify your Linux windows!
You do get access to well-designed, closed-source, Mac-only apps. (The open source Mac apps can generally be cross-compiled for Linux, or more likely vice versa.) But if you're too cheap to buy actual Mac hardware you're less likely to care about the power to pay for nicely designed Mac apps. Especially when some of those apps might exhibit mysterious bugs on your hackintosh hardware.
Just spend those hours you'd waste trying to maintain a hackintosh learning more about Linux. It's a better use of your time. Or buy a real Mac like everybody else.