Hackintosh Mini

If you are looking to build a fast, stable and economic OSX86 machine try this one, hackintosh mini for less than $600.  According to Adam Dachis over at LifeHacker, he was able to put this hackintosh mini together for a very reasonable $599.65 and that includes intel i3 processor and a pretty nifty Silverstone case and power supply.

The article states that this machine will run best if you stick with the Snow Leopard OS (which is just fine with me) and the instructions include the latest and what is believed to be the final update, 10.6.

I will be building this because (I need an excuse really) having since loaded the Lion OS I have been anything but impressed and I am pretty unhappy with the lack of Rosetta PowerPC support.

The Build

• Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Motherboard $104.99
• Intel Core i3 Processor i3-540 3.06GHz 4MB LGA1156 CPU $110.00
• ZOTAC nVidia GeForce GT240 512 MB DDR3 DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card $84.99
• 2x2GB Corsair PC3-10666 1333Mhz Dual Chanel 240-pin DDR3 Desktop RAM $43.99
• Western Digital 1TB SATA III 7200 RPM 32MB Cache Desktop Hard Drive $59.99
• SilverStone SG05BB-450 ALL Black Plastic/SECC Mini-ITX Computer Case with SFX 450W 80+ Bronze Certified/Single +12V rail Power Supply $119.99
• Sony Optiarc 8X SATA DVD+/-RW Slim Drive $34.99
• 13-pin to Standard+Power Slimline SATA Cable $7.75
• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard $29.00

OSX86 Lion

iAtkos has released the new install for Mac OSX Lion, you download it here as well as the instructions.  I have not tested nor tried it yet. Let me know if you have and what you think.

The forum, for more info and help, is here: http://uphuck.ggrn.org/forum/

How to run Snow Leopard via Ubuntu

Instructions on how to run OSX via a virtual box in Ubuntu :)

http://solancer.blogspot.com/2011/05/snow-leopard-on-ubuntu-using-virtual.html

Hackintosh Useful Links

Snow Leopard kernels

AnV 10.2.0 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD
PJC 10.2.0 v8 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD
Black-night 10.2.0 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD
PJC 10.2.0 v9 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD
Intel Atom 10.2.0 Only
Mobdin 10.0 SSE3 AMD Only
Legacy 10.2.0 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD

Boot Loader - Chameleon RC4

DOWNLOAD

Chameleon RC3 with PC EFI 10.3/4.1/5

Chameleon RC3 PC EFI 10.5
Chameleon RC3 PC EFI 10.4.1
Chameleon RC3 PC EFI 10.3
Chameleon RC3 only

Man gets hackintosh repaired at Genius Bar?!

Have to pass on this article because, well, it made me smile.  Man Gets His Hackintosh Air Repaired at Genius Bar 

New update to Asus P5ers OSX86 install

Here is the latest install for osx86 on Asus P5s:

http://osx86sv.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/os-x-10-6-snow-leopard-universal-on-pc-news/

New serial number

After following these instructions from Pradeesh (pronounced Prasys), I have successfully changed my "About This Mac" info, including serial number and model type :)