Im guessing, if I buy a 8800gt from apple store it will works on hackintosh without patchin or i'll have to use nvinject or other patch the same as pc Graphic cards?

As soon as you power up an Apple card in a Hackintosh it emits a homing signal back to base in Cupertino. Then that night the black helicopters will come. After that, the ice weasels...

u forget Steven Seagal with his fists ahah.. by the way u know if it works or not?

Afaik it'll work but not better than any other 8800gt because when the system's powering on it'll detect the graphics card as any other card. Those cards have 2 firmwares on it. the regualary G-Bios and the EFI. Your bios will make it detect it as a normal 8800gt. the cards have both on it, because the macs must be able to run windows.....so without the G-Bios the Mac-Bios simulation won't detect it...so far so clear, isn't it?!

What happens is: you get reamed.

Why would anyone choose to pay nearly 3x (!!!) as much for an 8800GT for a Hackintosh??

Apple store: $279

Newegg: $95- $110



One of the things that attracted me to the OSx86 scene in the first place, was the fact that one can liberate themselves from beyond insane Apple peripheral-hardware prices. I recall some forum where Apple fanbois were all peeing themselves with glee over Apple making available the 8600GS for at least double the going rate as the normal card and thinking to myself, that's not 'thinking different' that's just "bend over and open your wallet" insanity.

Wait a second... wait a second now, I don't think you're taking into consideration the fact that the 8800GT that you get at the Apple Store is of much higher quality, much better everything, it's painstakingly engineered to standards that don't even exist yet!!! by engineers who have much higher IQ's than those high school dropouts who carelessly slap together those crappy PC versions...

You get what you pay for...

and so on..

Haha, not to mention, the most important part of any computer- the design! Apple makes the 8800 they sell look fabulous, dahling!

Clearly, nVidia needs to hire some designers.


Sort of like how Apple sells it's designer FB-DIMM RAM.

16GB (8x2GB) from Apple: $3500 (Far MORE than the MacPro you'd put it in)

16GB (8x2GB) from newegg: $432

Clearly PC RAM companies aren't hiring enough designers to make extra pretty heat sinks or something and get that $3068 (!!!) markup!

Not tried this one actually. I did once have an Apple 7300gt because I needed dual DVI and my eVGA 7300gt only had VGA/DVI, and it did work fine. You can look at some existing threads though (e.g. Apple 8800GT in Hack). I concur with what was said by the others- there is no good reason to use the Apple one. 8800GTs are getting rare- 9800GTs are much more common now and still cheaper (I saw one on sale this week for $100Cdn) and arguably better. I recently bought an 8800GS because it was cheap ($50Cdn) and nearly as fast as an 8800GT and it has worked flawlessly.