Any hackintosh owners/builders out there?

[patracy]

I've already got a Dell Mini 10V hackintosh that I love. I'm thinking about building a dedicated machine as a "hac pro". My shopping list currently is...

GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 motherboard
Intel i7 860 or 870 processor
At least 8gb of ram to start, but eventually 16gb later on
GeForce 9800 GT video card
I'm also thinking about a small SSD for the OS and apps then a traditional HD in 1TB range for document/image/file storage.
I'll also toss in a airport compatable wifi card and a DVD burner

I'm not a hardcore gamer. The only thing I play is warcraft from time to time. Just want something that'll last me a while. I'll probably load 10.6 with iBoot and Kakewalk to work out all the details.

Anyone else dabble in this?

[SpeedGeek]

Sorry, I just buy the real deal.... Less hassles that way....

[patracy]

Hassles? How so? Every other PC in the house is self assembled. The hackintosh netbook I made was a great learning experience as well. Took me a time or two to get the hang of it. But I've got a disk image ready to throw on a 10v now as well. Actually I can now hackintosh a 10v in less than 20mins...

There's two key things to building a hackintosh since apple went to intel. The CPU and the Video card. The video card really is the limitation though. There's several "vanilla" kernels out there to accommodate just about any hardware.

As a matter of fact, the Win7 box I'm using right now has a VM of 10.6 on it. I've thought about re-partioning it and just loading iBoot and making this into the hackintosh. But it's only a Core 2 Quad and it's more of the "family" PC. And it only has a GeForce 7600 video card.

[PlayfulGod]

I did leopard on a old G5 dual 500Ghz CPU box, but havent had a intel box to play with for the new platform. All my PC's n laptops run AMDs lol

[SquireSCA]

I installed OSX Leopard onto my gaming machine. 2.4Ghz Quad-core, Intel, 6GB RAM, ATI Radeon 4890HD video, etc...

It worked for the most part, but you could not update the system without a lot of work.

It is one of those things where it is fun to tinker with for a bit, the OS is pretty nice, but in the end I wouldn't use it as my main OS. It never seems to run 100% and as I said, updating can be really tricky.

Personally, I wish that Apple would just sell a "PC" version of their OS for $199 and let people install it on whatever, but that will never happen.

I thought about throwing it onto my laptop, but decided I just didn't want the limitations or the hassle. At the end of the day, it won't allow you to do anything that Windows 7 cannot do.