PC to MAC

[DON]

Just wondering, has anyone here turned a PC into a Mac? or is there a method to do this instead of buying a mac? The only thing I've heard of is the hackintosh.??

 

[cornishman]

Did that about a year ago. The first attempts, with Tiger 10.4 the results were, shall we say, not a little dubious!
The methodology has moved forward substantially, and I am currently running Leopard 10.5.7 on a Gigabyte GA-P35 + Intel Core2Duo E8600 with 4 gig RAM.
One thing I must stress is that ALL drives (including DVD) have got to be SATA,though to actually install the OS you have to use IDE (BIOS), you need to switch to AHCI after installation.

My installation runs sweet, did the install of 10.5.5 just after last Xmas using the iDeneb DVD. Have had no crashes, freeze-ups or any other mishaps at all, solid as a rock.
Can install any Mac software without problems. I also run Parallels 4.0 which is faster than VMWare (especially graphically) from which you can run any M$ software.

You can get a lot of information from the following sites

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
and software from
http://applewares.com/

If you need any help, just let me know, will be more than willing to help m8
Good luck.

 

[cornishman]

p.s. Just a moan from an old-timer, all the lads over at iATKos and iDeneb, the ones that do all the re-coding/compiling/hacking are geniuses, but there's not one over 16 years old.
Why were'nt computers around when I was 16, 45 years ago