Urbz Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 It used to be. Now my 12" Powerbook G4 and Core Duo Mac mini are! I voted no. Simply because I will never go back to a non-Apple computer again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-293511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted February 4, 2007 Share Posted February 4, 2007 It almost is now. Now that i got 10.4.8 with the semthex kernel and qe and ci i use it about 95% of the time. I only go on windows when i need print something (wirelessly) or i have to access my server (wirelessly). Also, to play games. But i rarely do that anymore anyway, so im mostly on mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-293545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernalzero Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 my windows box is turned off virtually all the time and it sits inches from my blackbox mac. The only time I turn it on is if I need a program not available or without a similar counterpart on mac. I'd say I use my hackintosh 95% of the time at home and look forward to buying a macbook pro in the future (waiting out the LED and leopard releases because I'm not in a rush). Yesterday I got the sound working on OS X, so I don't have to boot into Windows anymore, except when watching movies what movies can you not watch on your 'mac'?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-294135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glassJAw Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 No because I get random YOU NEED TO SHUTDOWN YOUR COMPUTER and I can't figure out why. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-296373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Sirius Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Of corse it is!!! After all I'm tired of linux. I've already made thousands of distributions by myself. 'n I think move on is the best choice of learning a new system. Though I do not pretend to use non legal Mac OS X for ever I'm just gonna buy a Mac some near day. My Mac will of course be a PowerPC ( Risc instruction set architecture rocks ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-296398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 Now that finally have QE, my iHack is my primary machine. I use OSX on it 95% of the time. Windows is reserved for gaming. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-296461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj X-Fade Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 I have it on my main machine. Everything works smooth, exepct the graphics (still havent figured how to enable QE/CI) but resolution swithcing and Hz does work: Intel Celeron D 351+ (3.2 GHz) TwinMOS 1024 MB DDR RAM PC3200 (2 x 512) Asus ProActive P5GPL Seagate Barracuda 200GB IDE HD Pioneer DVD-ROM Sapphire Radeon x1300 512MB PCIe; still havent got QE/CI enabled, if you know how to solve this, please contact me, I would appreciate it very much Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-296541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Since i recently got my hac working perfectly, i hardly ever find my self on windows anymore, especially since i got parallels working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-297860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kousotsu Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Just finishing downloading it. I am taking my last PC and turning into a Mac, so no more windows @PRocker267 - Nice avatar Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-298370 Share on other sites More sharing options...
De-Rail Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Not my primary machine primarily because I need Windows for work and there are not a whole heck of a lot of games that run on OS X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-298380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ppan76 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 No. There are just a lot of things MacOSX cannot replace in the windows world. As much as I would like to use the Mac, I just always keep going back to XP. I have notice this is very personal and it all depends on what the computer is used for. I would love to get my laptop running MacOsx, but the lack of sleep/wakeup and power savings mode just isn't enough justification to move away from XP/Vista. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-298381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'm very interested to hear what programs people find they get drawn back to windows for.. the windows apps I miss are easily counted: MSN Live Messenger, uTorrent and (I know, it's an odd choice) WinAmp.. the first I run from a terminal server, the others in crossover.. Particularly since the release of photoshop cs3 beta, I find less & less reason for using windows at all.. As an afterthought, it strikes me that whilst the macbook & macbook pro provide a good mobile solution for OS X, and osx86 more often has issues with laptops, on the desktop side, Apple provides all-in-one (mini & iMac) or high-end (Mac Pro) Solutiopns, leaving the "traditional desktop" squarely to the Hackintosh.. for the type of computing I like to do, it is the best & only way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-298384 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjastance Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 yep... everything is working great. just gotta fix my refresh rate and its all setup. everything is working like a charm. i even picked up a apple keyboard and the might mouse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-300284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAvenue Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Dual booting PCLinuxOS 2007 and Mac OS X 10.4.7 Jas. Since i am essentially a linux geek, i use PCLinuxOS about 90% of the time. Even though i can not seem to get Quartz Extreme enabled no matter what i try,the only thing that affects is I can not play DVD movies. Iv'e tried about 8 different players. But i can do everthing else i want. I really like OS X and enjoy using it, more and more as time goes on. I probably will buy a ATI 1600 pro which should get QE for me.It ain't gonna happen with this X600. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-300470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 Still working on getting my macPC up Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-304640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayo Dot Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 It will be in about 2 hours...I just need to backup my music from my Windows iPod to an NTFS partition, install OSx86 with NTFS support and I'll be done Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-304905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 GRRR still trying to get mine to work... but I messed it up... oh well live and learn .. then buy a mac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-304920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rez. Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 No. No Autocad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-304946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 16, 2007 Share Posted February 16, 2007 autocad... try no good video games thats the heart breaker! Dice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-304948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandrzej Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 coming from gentoo linux as my primary machine, i have no windows applications to miss. now i exclusively run os x. although linux is powerful and fast, and actually xgl is great, along with multiple desktops in gnome (spaces is coming for os x so..)... i couldn't go though the some of the headaches that come with linux, so when you give me a *posix core, along with a slick graphical interface, and some nice application suites, such as iwork (which i really enjoy over office, or openoffice, or gnomeoffice (abiword etc)... i just couldn't take anymore emerging, portage, compiling from source, configuring things with nano... it's more like a hobby than an operating system. and i have found most of my favorite linux apps able to run under X11 emulation or have found ports of them to os x. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-305732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin R. Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Yes, yes it is. Sad thing is, is that Mac works better on this laptop then Windows ever did. My laptop is a Mac at heart. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-305819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Woo hoo it might be now that i got the freaking thing working was not that hard its just that I didnt have much time to do anything with it. Dice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-308365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabricioGS Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) No because I use my pc mostly for gaming (Counter Strike: Source) and development (ASP.NET). But I can´t wait the day my hack/macintosh will be my primary machine. I love Mac OS X Edited February 22, 2007 by Viper.Br Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-308636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Yes and no...I only switch into windows if something goes wrong or something, or if I need something to work that doesn't in mac. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-310874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikemad Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I use my HackMac as primary machine. Everything works ootb, so Windows is only for...I don't know Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24393-is-your-hackintosh-your-primary-machine/page/2/#findComment-310914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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