How many of you use OSX leopard (hackintosh version) as your main OS

[urgonah8me]

Well like the long title asks

 

How many here use there hackintosh as there primary OS? or use it just as equal to windows or linux?

 

I would say I still use windows more.. due to gaming but I still love to play in leopard and actualy get some work done! lol

 

Also how safe are we as a comunity? are we safe to be using our hackintoshes? is it possible apple can hunt us down and nick us? Im sure microsoft try to do that to there pirates ect but again who would want to with a microsoft product

[privatesnuffy]

Well, let me just tell you, I work for apple, so your IP has been traced and expect to be served soon.

 

 

 

Just kidding.

 

Right now, I have leopard on a pc i just built yesterday to run OSX. these are the specs, most of the parts I had around the house:

-P4 prescott 3 ghz 530 (soon to be replaced by a E4500 2.2ghz core 2 duo)

-2 GB DDR 667

-80 gig WD Raptor Drive, 120gig maxtor ide as secondary

-20x DVDRW SATA drive

-Nvidia 7900gt (worked right out of the box with Kalyway 10.5.2)

 

I'd use it alot more if I had internet on it, which I don't at the moment (no cat 5 to the room its in and my wifi adapter doesn't work without a patch). I currently use my main machine with Vista, because everything works on it (and it has more power)

[PascalP]

I'm exclusively using my Hackintosh with Leo4All, and, of course, my G4 iBook. OS X all the way Both running rock stable.

[GimmeRed]

Well like the long title asks

 

How many here use there hackintosh as there primary OS? or use it just as equal to windows or linux?

 

I would say I still use windows more.. due to gaming but I still love to play in leopard and actualy get some work done! lol

 

Also how safe are we as a comunity? are we safe to be using our hackintoshes? is it possible apple can hunt us down and nick us? Im sure microsoft try to do that to there pirates ect but again who would want to with a microsoft product

 

 

There are probably hundereds of thousands computers running illegal copies of windows and I can't say that I have ever heard of Microsoft going after anyone for doing it.

[pkmgarf]

^^That's true, but a hackintosh is pretty easy to spot. A big old Apple logo on startup on a Toshiba or Dell looks kinda funny. Even still, I hope to have my laptop reliably dual booting Leopard and Vista shortly. I'm too spoiled with my G4 that I want OS X all the time.

[.aero]

I use Leopard about 95 percent of the time. The rest i use on XP for gaming. And Vista... well, it just sits there after Leopard was installed. I think we are a more danger to ourselves rather than Apple is to us. Haha, this weekend I accidently installed an "unsafe" update that killed my installation.

 

Also, I think Apple is more interested in hunting down people like Psystar who openly install it on PCs commercially.

[Dave009]

From my experience, Vista >= Ubuntu > Leopard

[GimmeRed]

^^That's true, but a hackintosh is pretty easy to spot. A big old Apple logo on startup on a Toshiba or Dell looks kinda funny. Even still, I hope to have my laptop reliably dual booting Leopard and Vista shortly. I'm too spoiled with my G4 that I want OS X all the time.

 

I've registered my Dell with Apple they just sent me E-mails about the cool stuff I can do with my new Mac.

[Alex DeWolf]

Me. Asus G1, Asus A8JS, HP TX1410us (still working on this), Samsung Q1 (yes I want the instructions on this)

 

Alex

[Yuusharo]

From my experience, Vista >= Ubuntu > Leopard

Are you sure you meant to say Vista is better than Ubuntu/Leopard? Not that I'm critisizing, it just seems a little odd to have that additude on these forums given the nature of the project.

 

Leopard (Kalyway 10.5.1 install to 10.5.2) has been running exclusively on my system for almost three months now. Thanks go Crossover Mac/Games (WELL worth the money), I don't even need Windows to enjoy TF2/TFC anymore.

 

However I'm going to have to install XP soon so I can enjoy Assassin's Creed. I'm in no hurry to reinstall Windows, though =P

[teknojunkie]

yes me too i use leopard as my main os.

[Dave009]

Are you sure you meant to say Vista is better than Ubuntu/Leopard? Not that I'm critisizing, it just seems a little odd to have that additude on these forums given the nature of the project.

 

Leopard (Kalyway 10.5.1 install to 10.5.2) has been running exclusively on my system for almost three months now. Thanks go Crossover Mac/Games (WELL worth the money), I don't even need Windows to enjoy TF2/TFC anymore.

 

However I'm going to have to install XP soon so I can enjoy Assassin's Creed. I'm in no hurry to reinstall Windows, though =P

 

What I said was that Ubuntu is at least as good as Vista, and both are (much) better than Leopard.

[xalexas]

I have installed several times Leo on my hackintosh but I was never satisfied with it. It was always unstable and laggy compared to XP. I was thinking that is due to PC architecture, but guess what? I have recently bought in my company brand new Imac 24" with C2Duo and it is still very buggy. Indesign crashes all the time, Photoshop is very slow, not to mention Office 2008 which is horror.

Imac is too pretty to turn it back, so I use Leo, but I'm not happy with it.

[Detosx]

I have installed several times Leo on my hackintosh but I was never satisfied with it. It was always unstable and laggy compared to XP. I was thinking that is due to PC architecture, but guess what? I have recently bought in my company brand new Imac 24" with C2Duo and it is still very buggy. Indesign crashes all the time, Photoshop is very slow, not to mention Office 2008 which is horror.

Imac is too pretty to turn it back, so I use Leo, but I'm not happy with it.

I'm a Mac owner but I also use Leopard on my non Mac laptop. As long as you purchase Leopard, which I did, and it's not expensive and neither is iLife or iWork, all you are doing is breaking the terms of usage. While I'm not condoning that, as long as you aren't selling or hiring out your computer, I can't see a lot of harm is done. I say that because, rather, it results in sunstantial knock on sales to Apple when you show your friends how cool the Apple operating system is. Of course, there is a risk installing OS X on even intel hardware. I cooked one HP laptop because subsequent to installing a Taruga patch for sound and an AppleHDA.kext the laptop didn't completely shut down. Not knowing that, I put it in my day pack wrapped in a sweater. I later noticed a hot smell. Dead laptop. It's a known shutdown issue.

 

I find Leopard marginally faster than Vista in day to day use, though I still use both.