dimonych Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 I have a MBP (love it) but need a more powerful machine for my editing - Mac Pro is outrageously overpriced in my land - so I started to look into building a hackintosh. Since there is so many problems associated with running JAS and alike, I was wondering if it's at all possible to install official OSX on a hackintosh. Also, does anyone have any experince with Final Cut Pro on a Hackintosh, I assume it must be hell, since it make use of a lot of components that are problematic - sound, graphics, firewire etc... thank you for your replies Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 you can't, you need prepatched stuff Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimonych Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 why is that so, if you can buy the same hardware separately and build your own mac. what is it that you can't buy to build a real mac? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 ehm.... a mobo with apple efi and tpm chip. and a gpu with mac firmware? if it needed nothing to run macos on normal pcs....what's the point of a such huge community? lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddicus Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 why is that so, if you can buy the same hardware separately and build your own mac. what is it that you can't buy to build a real mac? You can't buy the TPM and the apple EFI software. The only way to run OS X on non-apple hardware is the crack the OS and do things to it (that are illegal) so it will run on non-apple hardware. Even if the specs are the same on the hardware you buy, OS X is going to look for things like the TPM (trusted platform module I think) and it won't find it. Also Intel macs use EFI and the hardware you put together is going to have BIOS. So it's taken some dedicated folks hacking the OS a bit (a lot of time and effort) to get it to run on BIOS machines. As for running install 'releases' like JaS, the trouble is in set-up, once you're up, you're likely to have few troubles (my experience) As for FCP on a hackintosh, it runs great when you get set up. I had a G5 (single proc) and I tried FCP on a $99 Pentium D 2.66 and it was far faster than the G5 (older machine). Read the wiki and posts and you can carefully buy good hardware and make it "relatively" each to install OS X and it'll run fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464157 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Hi Toddicus: I agree with you. It really helps to buy the "right" hardware for OSx86. I built my OSx86 PC based on specs from the Hardware Wiki. Everything (Graphics, Sound, Networking, Wireless) worked out-of-the-box! OSx86 Hardware Wiki --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimonych Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 thanks for your replies, i get it now. apple does not want us to run their OS on non apple hardware. isn't it why Windows is 95% of the market? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 and why would Apple care about that? They make money selling hardware... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimonych Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 didn't they almost go out of business in 97? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-464766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 didn't they almost go out of business in 97? Yes, because they allowed other manufacturers to install mac os on "Apple Clones." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-465668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 About the TPM chip, I'm pretty sure I saw some TPM emulators that use software emulation to emulate a TPM chip. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65540-install-official-osx-on-a-hackintosh/#findComment-465757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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