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Is your hackintosh your primary machine?


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Mine is. Specs below. My sawtooth is now my 2ndary machine.

 

EDIT: If not. Why? What do you need to gain for it to become your main box?

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Mine is. Specs below. My sawtooth is now my 2ndary machine.

 

EDIT: If not. Why? What do you need to gain for it to become your main box?

 

Specs below, - has been for three months now.

 

My cube, quicksilver and G3 are now my secondary machines ;-/ Photoshop on them as and when...

 

I needed parallels to run Lotus domino designer and administrator. Having said that, Crossover alpha 2/3 fulfils everything I might need from m$. Can't face using Mac Office 2004 thorugh rosetta - dog slow and pointless.

 

I think I'd still like to see better dual monitor support though. Fingers crossed with the new 7300 drivers...

 

//R

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Hey, does anyone now something like uTorrent for Mac? Need it to support Demonoid with fresh stuff.....

 

Run Bitcomet/uTorrent under parallels? Thats what I do because my ISP traffic shapes so I can't use transmission. Azureus, the other option is a resource hog....

 

Actually, there _will_ be another way - Just tried this - uTorrent runs under Crossover. LOL....well I never. Getting closer and closer to not needing parallels. <ShelleyTambo> Bitchin' </ShelleyTambo>

 

 

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  • 4 months later...

My hackintosh in primary. I'm getting a new ATI radeon x1600 pro with 512MB vram. It will go great with my low-end system :rolleyes:

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You can kinda tell that is my main one.... :)

 

Motion 2.1 runs smooth. Shake 4.1 runs great, and I play JKA with lugormod a lot.

 

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  • 3 weeks later...

it was my primary for a month when my ibook was dying, but now my mbp is my primary.

also, my dad stole my lcd, and my desk wont fit a crt, so i am not using it now

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I've got 5 hackintosh's i work off of everyday. all of my handy work. none geekbench under 140.

 

- shuttle sb61g2v3 - prescott 3.0ghz (478pin) - 1gb ram - x1600xt

- intel 915gux - prescott 3.2ghz (lga775) - 1gb ram - gma900

- asus P5LD2-VM - c2d 2.4ghx (lga775) - 2gb ram - nvidia 7600gt

- commell lv-677 - c2d 2ghz (479pin) - 512mb ram - nvidia 7600gs

- acer aspire 1642wli - pentium m - 1gb ram - gma900

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Although I have a dual boot I don't use windows a lot. And when I do, it feels sort of strange & annoying despite the fact that I have been using OS X for only half a year now.

 

A Happy new Year and thanks to this magnificent & active forum. :thumbsup_anim::dance_24:

 

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I built up a nice little Hackintosh for my fiancé:

 

Gigabyte 8IK1100 Rev 2.x i875P Motherboard

P4 3.0 GHz Prescott OC'd to FSB 220 @ 3.2 GHz

1 Gig OCZ RAM 1:1 with 2-2-2-5 timings

Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT (AGP) with full QE/CI using Natit

Coolermaster Wave case with a nice little Apple sticker on the front

Onboard sound, Ethernet, IDE, SATA, USB and Firewire all working 100%

 

It's her main machine, so I voted on behalf of her.

Gotta love Hackintoshes ^_^

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It took me ripping out old parts that weren't compatible and slowing replacing what I needed. Then along came 10.4.8 and Natit.kext, and now I'm fully functional. I rarely go into Windows these days.

 

The gear I sold on ebay...

ATI 9550

Emu 0404

Digidesign Digi001

HP Inkjet

HP Scanner

 

The replacements ...

GeForce 6200

Integrated Motherboard Audio

Digidesign M-Box 2

HP 1410 Printer/Scanner

 

I also bought a Canopus ADVC-110 which works great as well!

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  • 4 weeks later...

I use my Hackintosh for just about everything nowadays. I do have a Windows Server setup in my room as a NAT gateway, DHCP, Active Directory, and file sharing server, as well as for the occasional MAME/ZSNES session, but other than that I use OS X about 90% of the time.

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