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I'm building my first hack. I am a quite experienced builder of windows machines, but never a hack. I'll be upgrading an old system and have bought a motherboard and video card. But here is the thing, I'm moving overseas in 3 days. Where I'm going I'll likely have a very slow internet connection. I've got a few days of broadband to download everything I can that will likely help me. I own a mac mini with a 10.5.2 install and just upgraded it with the $29 leopard disk. I also have several windows machines, a ton of USB drives etc. I'm less worried about hardware costs than software (within reason), so what should be in my toolkit before I leave? Thanks.

 

Here is my rig

 

1) Video Card - GIGABYTE GV-R485MC-1GI HD4850

 

 

2) Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R

 

3) Core 2 Quad 9550

 

4) DDR2 1066 x 8gb

 

5) 150GB SATA drive

 

6) 2x SATA DL DVD RW

 

7) Case, power supply etc.

 

Thoughts?

 

Thanks.

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iDeneb 10.5.8 (search Google) would be a fairly simple way to quickly get a Hackintosh up and running.

Probably best for you to ignore installing Snow Leopard on a Hackintosh, at least for a while yet.

There's not really much functional difference between 10.5.8 & 10.6.

You don't say where you're re-locating from: or to:, but have you considered possible wall outlet & power cord differences?

Re: "very slow internet connection" --are you planning on using a dialup modem?

An external USB 56k modem would be most compatible in a dual-boot OSX/Windows setup.

Surge protectors?

Check here for various 3rd party Mac software:

http://mac.majorgeeks.com/

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