Shuttleu
2010-10-22 18:59:54
ok well this time last week a found a Dell GX280 on eBay with 2.8GHz HT processor, 1GB RAM and 80 GB HDD. Total price… £46
so anyway i thought, "meh, what is £46" and i bought it
over the week i decided that as it was going to have mac on it and it was a dell it would be called MELL
it arrived on monday while i was at college and i came home to find a really large box addressed to me.
i downloaded a copy of iAtkos S3 V2 and burnt it to disk. all that night i spent trying to get mac to install on the new computer to no avail. it would install, but it wouldn't boot :(
the next day i decided to try some hacked kernels, i chose one called qoopz which actually booted it up. so from that point i had a working hackintosh, but it wasn't fully functional, for example it crashed whenever i clicked on "About this mac" and there was no sound.
So with my laptop i set out to try and find out how i could fix these problems (i couldn't use my new MELL because there was also no internet).
I found a kext (driver) for the sound, then i found a fix for the "About this mac" problem.
only two main problems remained, graphics and internet.
I set out to try and get the ethernet working as i didn't have a spare wireless card. i searched and searched for hours and found no solution. then i decided to try a wireless card out of one of my other desktops.
I put it in and didn't expect it to work, but to my surprise, when MELL booted up it said that a new network interface was found.
So that left one problem left to solve. The graphics. and i solved that problem today.
So i now have a fully functioning Hackintosh for £46 which when you compare the price of a proper Mac, it is so bloody cheap
so yeah some info about it now
it shuts down in 2 seconds
it is running OSX 10.6.3
it boots up in 46 seconds
i am currently using safari on MELL to type this up
so if anyone buys one from eBay to use as a Hackintosh, then let me know and i can help you ;)
also the reason i posted it here is because i'm bound to get bashed from someone like wizzup? for having Mac on here instead of linux
~shut
so anyway i thought, "meh, what is £46" and i bought it
over the week i decided that as it was going to have mac on it and it was a dell it would be called MELL
it arrived on monday while i was at college and i came home to find a really large box addressed to me.
i downloaded a copy of iAtkos S3 V2 and burnt it to disk. all that night i spent trying to get mac to install on the new computer to no avail. it would install, but it wouldn't boot :(
the next day i decided to try some hacked kernels, i chose one called qoopz which actually booted it up. so from that point i had a working hackintosh, but it wasn't fully functional, for example it crashed whenever i clicked on "About this mac" and there was no sound.
So with my laptop i set out to try and find out how i could fix these problems (i couldn't use my new MELL because there was also no internet).
I found a kext (driver) for the sound, then i found a fix for the "About this mac" problem.
only two main problems remained, graphics and internet.
I set out to try and get the ethernet working as i didn't have a spare wireless card. i searched and searched for hours and found no solution. then i decided to try a wireless card out of one of my other desktops.
I put it in and didn't expect it to work, but to my surprise, when MELL booted up it said that a new network interface was found.
So that left one problem left to solve. The graphics. and i solved that problem today.
So i now have a fully functioning Hackintosh for £46 which when you compare the price of a proper Mac, it is so bloody cheap
so yeah some info about it now
it shuts down in 2 seconds
it is running OSX 10.6.3
it boots up in 46 seconds
i am currently using safari on MELL to type this up
so if anyone buys one from eBay to use as a Hackintosh, then let me know and i can help you ;)
also the reason i posted it here is because i'm bound to get bashed from someone like wizzup? for having Mac on here instead of linux
~shut