Stigy Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 My grandpa was throwing out his old computer in place of a laptop, and I figured I would ask if its possibly to Hackintosh it before I get rid of it. I searched the forums for the motherboard, but found posts from about two years ago and haven't played around with this stuff for a while so I am a bit out of the loop. Please excuse my noob-ness and as always, your help is greatly appreciated. So as far as I can tell, my dad built this PC for my grandpa a few years back and these are the specs I was able to find: Mobo: Intel D915GEV Memory: 512MB RAM Processor: Intel Celeron D326 (2.53GHz w/ EM64T) Graphics: Onboard ( Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900) Is there a way to tell what the max version of OSX this can run is? Also which one would I be best running? Thanks in advance for all your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHIT Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't know about the motherboard, but your CPU would be compatible with 10.5.x, but I don't know about graphics. I know that if it had a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 945 it would have worked out of the box. But even real macs perform like {censored} on 512MB RAM in 10.5. You might be able to run 10.4.x on it, but I don't know. I have tried doing it on a OEM-machine with almost the same CPU, and I only managed to get Kalkeway 10.5.2 working, and it was very unstable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stigy Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 I don't know about the motherboard, but your CPU would be compatible with 10.5.x, but I don't know about graphics. I know that if it had a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 945 it would have worked out of the box. But even real macs perform like {censored} on 512MB RAM in 10.5. You might be able to run 10.4.x on it, but I don't know. I have tried doing it on a OEM-machine with almost the same CPU, and I only managed to get Kalkeway 10.5.2 working, and it was very unstable Thanks for the quick reply. So buying RAM and a video card might be the best way for me to go. Let's say I pick up 2GB of RAM from Newegg for this thing then a compatible video card I might be in better shape? My pain purpose for doing this is developing iOS applications in XCode so I guess I would prefereably like to get up to running 10.6.x but not sure if thats possible with my current processor. I currently have OSX running in a VM on my Windows machine, but its quite slow, and I don't want to go through the hassle of dual booting, so this is where I ended up. Any inexpensive video cards that work right out of the box that you know off the top of your head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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