Hackintosh Success Stories

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I was wondering who else here is an avid Hackintosh user?

I've got Yosemite running on both my Dell Latitude E6400 (still need to get the touch pad working) and on my ACER aspire v3-571g (everything except for WIFI and battery indicator) works.

Currently using Chameleon bootloader with additional kexts. Looking at moving to Clover.
 
Lino said:
I was wondering who else here is an avid Hackintosh user?

I've got Yosemite running on both my Dell Latitude E6400 (still need to get the touch pad working) and on my ACER aspire v3-571g (everything except for WIFI and battery indicator) works.

Currently using Chameleon bootloader with additional kexts. Looking at moving to Clover.
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So not really a success story then since neither is working
 
Why even build a Hackintosh? Why not get a Mac and get it over and done with? I recently got hold of a Macbook Pro 13, 2012 version. Upgraded it with an SSD and 16GB RAM and it's a great little machine...
 
Lino said:
I was wondering who else here is an avid Hackintosh user?

I've got Yosemite running on both my Dell Latitude E6400 (still need to get the touch pad working) and on my ACER aspire v3-571g (everything except for WIFI and battery indicator) works.

Currently using Chameleon bootloader with additional kexts. Looking at moving to Clover.
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If you gone / going that route; save yourself 1) get mac 2) or archlinux
 
FarligOpptreden said:
Why even build a Hackintosh? Why not get a Mac and get it over and done with? I recently got hold of a Macbook Pro 13, 2012 version. Upgraded it with an SSD and 16GB RAM and it's a great little machine...
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depending on what type of person you are, it can be quite fun building something until it runs as it is meant to. i at one stage actually built one. worked quite well for a while. but i was running it off an external enclosure and the speed was iffy.

so with each osx upgrade, the nividia and network driver were an issue. which is not a problem if you have hardware that a lot of people have. there seemed to be only 2 people serious enough for my mobo (network) and graphics card. and seeing as i had an mbp anyway i was never serious about it.

edit - http://www.tonymacx86.com/
there was another which for the life of me i can't remember
 
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FarligOpptreden said:
Why even build a Hackintosh? Why not get a Mac and get it over and done with? I recently got hold of a Macbook Pro 13, 2012 version. Upgraded it with an SSD and 16GB RAM and it's a great little machine...
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Because for less than what you paid for a second hand mac you could have bought a brand new PC with double the spec.
 
Nerfherder said:
Because for less than what you paid for a second hand mac you could have bought a brand new PC with double the spec.
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Not second hand, brand new. Apple still sells those models. I also have an MSI GS70 Stealth Pro to do all my heavy lifting and, believe it or not, the little Mac feels faster in some applications.

Tell me how much I'll pay for a laptop with a solid aluminium construction, backlit keyboard, i5 processor, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD and a touchpad that is unrivalled?
 
Nerfherder said:
Because for less than what you paid for a second hand mac you could have bought a brand new PC with double the spec.
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And you end up with a hackintoshed laptop with twice the specs at half the price that doesn't work properly?
 
Tried it on my gigabyte PC. After weeks of struggling with video/mouse issues I eventually gave up and went back to Windows.
 
It's a fun* exercise and I've done it a couple of times (just to see if I could), but it's far too flaky to be able to use the machine seriously.

Nice to do as a hobbyist exercise and you learn a bit about what lies under Mac gui.



* supremely frustrating :D
 
Good Morning All,

I see it is a sin in this subforum to even discuss a Hackintosh.

1: I own a Macbook Pro 13inch late 2010 model -Logic board died after three years
2: Linux comment? Well I am actually an Arch user so not sure where that fits in?

In some cases a Hackintosh works just as well if not better than a machine bought from Apple? It is just a tweaked BSD kernel at the end of the day. So I don't see a problem if a person wants the best of both worlds?
 
Thor187 said:
So not really a success story then since neither is working
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Not sure how you came to this conclusion? Once the other issues are resolved then it will be working 100% which after doing research looks like it is actually supported?
 
Lino said:
Not sure how you came to this conclusion? Once the other issues are resolved then it will be working 100% which after doing research looks like it is actually supported?
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Nope from your OP and from this message it's not working in my books.

"it will be working 100%" means it's not working.
 
Lino said:
Good Morning All,

I see it is a sin in this subforum to even discuss a Hackintosh.

1: I own a Macbook Pro 13inch late 2010 model -Logic board died after three years
2: Linux comment? Well I am actually an Arch user so not sure where that fits in?

In some cases a Hackintosh works just as well if not better than a machine bought from Apple? It is just a tweaked BSD kernel at the end of the day. So I don't see a problem if a person wants the best of both worlds?
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you sinner :erm:

rm * -r
 
Lino said:
I see it is a sin in this subforum to even discuss a Hackintosh.
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Hardly - there are numerous threads on hackintoshing.
Lino said:
So I don't see a problem if a person wants the best of both worlds?
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What are these worlds you want both of?
Lino said:
Not sure how you came to this conclusion? Once the other issues are resolved then it will be working 100% which after doing research looks like it is actually supported?
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Maybe once things are running 100% then you can claim a success but until then no wifi and/or no trackpad are two fairly big omissions. And what happens when you update the OS to El Capitan or the impending macOS? Will you have to start the bug fixing all over again?
 
I tried it some time back without any issues but os x was not for me.
 
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