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decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:07 am

I'm pretty happy with my hackintosh

You need to be pretty technical to get them up and running though.

lazermouse · Post by **lazermouse** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:25 pm

New iMacs are coming soon. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09 ... _core.html

caeraphym · Post by **caeraphym** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:26 pm

Ooh ooh! I think the idea of a hackingtosh is very interesting indeed, essentially a mac running with cheap, replacable, upgradable hardware. Very cool.

Would it be possible to mod the bios to switch between an XP/OSX system from start up (ie press alt F8 or some combo of keys on the boot screen to toggle the OS) with each system either on it's own HDD or partition?

ELLFIVEDEE · Post by **ELLFIVEDEE** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:33 pm

Caeraphym wrote:Ooh ooh! I think the idea of a hackingtosh is very interesting indeed, essentially a mac running with cheap, replacable, upgradable hardware. Very cool.

Would it be possible to mod the bios to switch between an XP/OSX system from start up (ie press alt F8 or some combo of keys on the boot screen to toggle the OS) with each system either on it's own HDD or partition?

pretty sure hackintosh's run on the principle of dual booting, although I could be wrong.

If not then there is definately a way to do it, I would imagine it's the same as you would dual boot different windows OS'

flateric · Post by **flateric** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:41 pm

What parts do you have from your current computer that you can reuse and will you need a decent gfx card? Just priced up a decent system for £1k minus a gfx card and case. I'd reccomend you wait until AMD release their am3 ddr parts (even if you intend to go intel you should see some a price drop) and I'd do some serious research into your psu as it's probably the most important component in your system (don't go for watts or modularity, you should be looking at ripple + efficiency).

fiziks · Post by **fiziks** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:09 pm

Caeraphym wrote:Ooh ooh! I think the idea of a hackingtosh is very interesting indeed, essentially a mac running with cheap, replacable, upgradable hardware. Very cool.

Would it be possible to mod the bios to switch between an XP/OSX system from start up (ie press alt F8 or some combo of keys on the boot screen to toggle the OS) with each system either on it's own HDD or partition?

Yes, very easy in fact. Pressing F8 won't be necessary either, it will bring up a screen for you to choose which OS you want. You can mod the boot.ini in windows and add an entry for OS X's chain0 file. I have XP, ubuntu & OS X running on the same machine (2 different hard drives). I use Ubuntu's grub bootloader though.

whygohome10 · Post by **whygohome10** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:45 am

decklyn wrote:I'm pretty happy with my hackintosh

You need to be pretty technical to get them up and running though.

read up on your set up

id never be able to pull that off... ha

however buildin your own windows box is easy as pie.

but i love my macbook also... but for production you will want a pro. go for the last gen on ebay if you really want a mac.

but then again... buildin your own pc is still easy as pie

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