cartman_go Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Does anyone know the bare minimums and the cheapest parts possible for runningOSx86? please post or pm me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushupork5 Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 check the wiki and search, there are alot of threads on how to build a hackintosh (or whatever you want to call it) for around $300, i just saw a system in the BST for $300 that would work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartman_go Posted March 19, 2006 Author Share Posted March 19, 2006 thx for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urig-herb Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Have a look at my sig. You can get it even cheaper, but with my system everything works. Just vga output, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 ...additionally, the minimum specs are sse2, pae and 128MB Ram Also I can recomment an ati X300 pcie for about 50 bucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartman_go Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 this helps a bunch! thanx a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 You could build a full OSx86 machine out of used parts for $50. It would go alright too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Aronowitz Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 The only thing I bought was the asrockdual 478 moboard. Took 512mb stick out of the desktop I use to dl porn, used the 10GB drive I took out of my xbox when I modded it and had a spare p4 3GHZ prescott (blech) cpu running. Cost me maybe 80 bucks for the moboard. Of course after I got it running the way I wanted it to, I spent another 85 beans on the aspire x-qpack micro case (dont buy the red one it came to me looking more orange) 85 on a pata 250GB hdd and 80 on 1gb ram (now it dual boots xp and 10.4.5). I guess if I had nothing laying around and wanted to build from scratch it would have cost about 400. I replaced my wife's ibook with it so she could actually use it as a mobile solution instead of her desktop... I was also tired of hearing how come this or that doesnt work the same as it does on Internet Explorer or why a doc created in Office 2003 doesnt format or edit correctly in OFFICE X/2004 so that is why she got an xp partition. The way that I look at it is this IBOOK $1000... having to find ways to get things to work the same as it did on windows but also doing everything she wants with her music (midi stuff, motu, por tools)... PC XP $200-300... having to reinstall or spend hours on fixing bugs every 3months from something getting "accidentally" downloaded... HACKINTEL dual boot...XP gets used only when needed... OSX does everything else $400. Keeping my sanity not having to fix this or that priceless. If the new IMAC was 500 or 600 bucks and you didnt have to leap through hurdles to install XP that is what I would have done. I really believe Apple would make a mint on selling OSX for standard x86 components they would make a mint. Sure they would lose on hardware but there is no overhead on DVD's (not to mention how much they potentially lose on obsolete hardware when they move to the next cpu mobo etc and have all the old {censored} sitting in warehouses) and as you see here the community would contribute to the hardware driver issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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