well over the last week I have been building configuring my new computer, An Intel I7 Powered Hackintosh.
This is an upgrade from my Intel Q6600 System which is being kept and will be used for other things.
I had a few issues whilst building the system, the main problem being faulty RAM, This has since been RMA’ed and replaced.
The legalities of this from what Ive read very much depend on where in the world you live. If you live in the america then from what I can tell Apple have you by the short and curly’s, If however you live in Europe then this is a different story. I know at the moment there is a company in Germany offering systems with OSX Pre-Installed, due to a loophole in German law.
I would also think that if ever apple was to bring proceedings again any one company or individual then I think there may be a good argument due to monopoly laws etc.. (we all know were this has landed Microsoft in the past). Another interesting fact is that you are not able to agree with the EULA until you have already opened the software packaging, This is located inside the box and therefore cannot be read and agreed to before hand.
One thing that I would like to make clear before I get any further is that I did in fact buy a retail copy of Snow Leopard to do the install, This in fact made my life easier in the long run as the disc that came had the latest updates on which meant the installer had pretty much native supported my chipset and Processor.
I did a lot of research before finishing up with my current build list, I wanted a system that was going to be as vanilla as possible and stable. The key to this build was going to be in the hardware used, I ended up using many parts that had been tried and tested, Aswell as being very well supported by both the operating system and the hackers behind the boot disc etc…
The motherboard is in fact the same motherboard that one of the hackers uses him self, this made life a lot easier when it came to getting hardware working etc…
I cannot tell you how happy I with this setup and after a bit of research I finalised my build, the specs are as follows:
- Intel i7 860 2.8GHz
- Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2
- Corsair XMS3 4GB PC3-12800
- Corsair H50 Water Cooler – Modified using 2x replacement 120mm fans (Push / Pull – Exhausting)
- Cooler Master Storm Scout Case – Front and Rear Grills Cut and Additional 140mm Intake fan in 5 1/4 Bays
- Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W Certified Modular PSU
- Intel X25M 80GB SSD Hard Drive – Installation + Every Day Apps
- Hitachi 500GB Hard Drive – Data + Large Apps / Non Every Day Apps
- Nvidia Geforce 9600 GT 512MB
- Belkin USB Bluetooth Dongle
I would like to first thank tonymacx86 and the other hackers (Website and More Details Here) for putting in the amount of effort that has gone in to bringing all this together.
I will update again once I have had a good play around and got everything tuned to my liking.
