Hackintosh?

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I want to give Mountain Lion a try but don't have a Mac, only Windows PC.

Is it worth giving it a try or am I wasting my time on windows PC I know many functions will not be a available, this is mainly to "fiddle" around.

Anyone have a Hackintosh running?
 
I tried this once or twice. It only supports a limited range of hardware, which I didn't have so it didn't work for me.
 
I've been running hackintosh since 10.4.4, installed it on dozens of machines. When it works, it's fantastic. Stable, fast, cheap. So yeah it's worth it but you have to learn a bit about configuring it. For example I have a cheap PC with a 5850 that's fast and great for say video editing, at the fraction of the cost of an iMac.
 
Do you have to purchase a copy of Mountain Lion or are there copies like Windows available?
I'm not to keen to part with $20 on something I just want to have a fiddle with, if it lives up to the hype I would be keen to buy.
 
I didn't purchase mountain lion, there's no serial no or anything.
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I'll give it a download this week, hopefully it lasts longer on my PC than Ubuntu did.
 
Yeah it's a proper OS. Easiest way I've found is to use MyHack to create a USB installer from the Mountain Lion disk image. Then use Multibeast to install drivers.
 
Synaesthesia said:
I've been running hackintosh since 10.4.4, installed it on dozens of machines. When it works, it's fantastic. Stable, fast, cheap. So yeah it's worth it but you have to learn a bit about configuring it. For example I have a cheap PC with a 5850 that's fast and great for say video editing, at the fraction of the cost of an iMac.
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I would be keen to try this again.. But perhaps get a machine with the proper h/w..
 
I installed on two desktops at home and it works perfectly. The tonymac site gives the easiest way to do it. Lion is much easier to install than Mountain Lion. Once tony and the other guys sort out some bugs, it will eventually be as easy as Lion. Also, a very wide range of hardware is supported. The biggest problem is out of box support. If a wifi device or ethernet device does not work immediately, most people give up. As mentioned in the above threads, the are various sites with hardware compatibility lists and kexts.com has lots of kexts for hundreds of devices that makes it quite simple to sort out driver issues.

What can be really, really painful is to try to install OS X on laptops. I've sat for days and days on working with an Acer laptop and eventually gave up. Desktops are much easier. And if you really can't find support for an ethernet/wifi/sound device, its easier and cheaper to buy a compatible replacement component.
 
I don't know, Mountain Lion running perfectly here! If anyone wants a bit of support, just holler this way.
 
Synaesthesia said:
I don't know, Mountain Lion running perfectly here! If anyone wants a bit of support, just holler this way.
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I've been keen for a while. A simple 1-2-3 might be useful. Everytime I hit Tonymac or hackintosh.com I'm put off by all the prep. Maybe I'm just lazy that way?

As stability as a primary OS goes - how would you rate it overall?
 
unskinnybob said:
I've been keen for a while. A simple 1-2-3 might be useful. Everytime I hit Tonymac or hackintosh.com I'm put off by all the prep. Maybe I'm just lazy that way?

As stability as a primary OS goes - how would you rate it overall?
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Yea I would also love a simple step by step. Maybe starting with your preferred hardware.
 
UniBeast has been updated to 1.5.2. This version fixes the USB bug that was in the previous version which should make installing Mountain Lion much easier.

Madman88 said:
Yea I would also love a simple step by step. Maybe starting with your preferred hardware.
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On the tonymac site, they have a very simple tutorial on how to create a bootable Mountain Lion installation USB drive. They also mention on the forums there the basic settings to enable/disable in the BIOS and how to install kexts with kexthelper/kextwizard etc. If that info is not clear enough or if you guys have any other questions, then i'm willing to write a guide.
 
It is quite a pain to do, because you need to learn quite a bit to troubleshoot it, if something is wrong and you need access to another Mac or Hackintosh to get things started.

When you know what you're doing installation can be very quick and easy.

Yes sleep doesn't work frequently and you have to patch audio too, and other drivers.

But basically the hardware I recommend is an Intel chipset motherboard. Many graphics cards are supported.

I love it as a primary OS, it's great with a Magic trackpad or Magic mouse.
 
Synaesthesia said:
I don't know, Mountain Lion running perfectly here! If anyone wants a bit of support, just holler this way.
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Just finished installing Mountain Lion on my Asus P7H55M-Pro motherboard based PC. Everything works: iMessage, iCloud, the Mac App Store etc. Haven't got around to to testing sleep mode yet. Only install issue was the screen going black just before the install screen. I typed in "PCIRootUID=0 GraphicEnabler=Yes" at the boot loader and it installed fine after that. Seems as if the latest version of UniBeast is already better then the first version.
 
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