I found this article on lifehacker and was directed to post here. I have a question if anyone can give suggestions. The article basically tells you how to load OSX onto an ‘everyday’ PC hardware setup. See article here.


My question is if anyone has done this can you do it with any hardware setup, i.e.



2 Gig of RAM

4yr old P4 processor

ATI Video card



What do you think?

article isn't loading for me, however i wonder if anyone knows any companies selling a pre-build osx computer?

P4 is support with A Voodoo kernel, and as long as you can find drivers, you boot it on any comp.

That's really not enough information, but I'll tell you that an older Pentium 4 (it's only four years old?) will present a lot of challenges.

I had a lot more luck getting 10.4 running on various machines then I've had with 10.5. I haven't been able to get a workable installation of 10.5 on any machine I have, and I've tried every release out there. 10.4 worked like a charm (Well, with some coaxing. But I always got it to work. With 10.5 released I always get system hangs on boot.)

Try one of the DVD's and see if it works. Past that, you'll basically be on your own. Once the OS is installed getting help for various devices and such is a lot easier to come by.

Your best bet is to build a machine from scratch with known-to-work components. The motherboard chipset and CPU are the two single most important pieces to the puzzle. Almost everything else can be worked around with add-on cards or driver patches. With the right hardware, you can even use a "real" OSX install disk to install the system (after booting from a loader first.)

Good luck, sounds like you'll need it.

First off I would like to say hello and welcome to InsanelyMac..
With that said, the gods here will prolly need more information then what you have given..Motherboard brand and name, type of processor,type of gpu..etc,etc.

I have been trying to get mine running for a few months and finnaly succeded with the Kalyway 10.5.2 installer and the beauty about my machine is that I could use everything vanilla(apple friendly).Be cautious though.This is not an undertaking for the light of heart(or so I have been told)

I love my hackintosh and will not be going back to Windows 7 any time soon.

~Nerd

I guess that depends on two factors:

a)-More specs of your hardware. You description and specs are too general to assure you sucess. So maybe you can go with the HCL list and see what you can find.
b)-Distro of OSx86 you want to run (iDeneb, iAtkos, etc)

I remember an article wrote in Macworld about the making of a Hackintosh, from scratch. But that way requires too much work and time. Can be done, as a proof of concept, anyways. For me, the better route is start with any PC, and give x86 a try. But beware, in this path, for compatibility with drivers and specific software.

It depends heavily on which hardware you are running, there are some SATA-controllers for example which don't work very well with any Hackintoshes. Some graphics cards simply don't have drivers, like Via UniChrome. It also in some cases depends on how the motherboard bios is implemented, I for example have MSI P35 NEO-F mobo which does have Intel P35 -chipset which itself is "Hackintosh-friendly", but the bios is designed in such way that is impossible to install OS X86 on this mobo without flashing it with modified bios. Intel-based OS X originally requires SSE3 to be supported by processor, but there are hacks and patches to make it work on SSE2 (like early Pentium 4's and Athlon64's).

I have tried this in couple machines and it really is about luck, unless you carefully Google which components are reported to work. There is also many versions on Hackintosh so it depends on what version you are about to use.

I'd say the motherboard and its chipset is the key factor and then the processor. I have used Hackintosh with VIA PM266, Intel 945G, Intel I845, NForce 550 and with one Asrock-board which had SIS-based chipset, can't remember the name. As far as I know, Gigabyte has some very Hackintosh-capable Intel 775 -boards available.

How did you managed nForce 550 install? I can't figure out boot options or what else I need. Trying iAtkos v7 and iDeneb 1.5