mega Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 I'm considering buying a mac mini, 2ghz model but I'm not sure if I really want to run mac os xanyone built a cheap mac mini lately? There used to be a DYI thread with known & easy to source cheap components that were 100 % working, but I cant find it now I would need a minimum of dual core 2ghz, and a small footprint. I currently run ubuntu and am going more and more towards mac products, and integration seems better, this machine will do email (thunderbird) browsing, photo edit/upload, and itunes/iphone duty I've got some leftover hardware to piece one together.. 7600gt 6600 core2 duo 2 gigs of ram usb sound card, I guess it's a card, it's compatable with osx, I used it when I had a hackintosh last year I could buy a board & small case, I love the mini size/profile I need to find is 2 things motherboard that's compatible with leopard small case & power supplys does anyone have a suggestion for an ultra compatible board? If this works out well I would go to a quad core cpu, so I think I need to spend the money on a badaxe2 or a blood iron ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98380-diy-x86-mini-or-real-deal/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyler durden's bile duct Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 i just built a pretty decent machine for 450 bucks... runs well and everything works with very little patching... the details are in my sig... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98380-diy-x86-mini-or-real-deal/#findComment-703015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mega Posted April 9, 2008 Author Share Posted April 9, 2008 that shuttle setup would be perfect I think is the board in the SD30G2 Plus all native? I cant tell who makes the board that's in it I really want to stick with a board that's fully EFI/Vanilla kernel working and requires minimal patching, maybe sound but that's it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/98380-diy-x86-mini-or-real-deal/#findComment-703023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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