Hackintosh - Discuss

What's the minimum Spec needed? To run pc "hacintosh"

Its noy as simple as you might think - the hardware has to be compatible with the mac OS

http://lifehacker.com/5837615/how-do-i-choose-the-right-hardware-when-building-a-hackintosh

You will find this site very helpful.

Better a new thread for this subject ..

Do these help ?



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Channel Hopper said:

Do these help ?

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Might have to give that a try......

Depends on what version of MacOS you want to run and budget.

I have had lion running on a dell optiplex 755, Yosemite on a vostro 200 and Sierra on a HP8200 elite.

I second the recommendation from Tonymac. The hardware list is crucial IMO.

My first one was a Dell Mini-9 which had hardware that is quite close to an old Mac Mini. I did a couple those by installing OSX on an SSD on an iMac then Hackintoshing it on the Dell. That was with Snow Leopard. They worked well for years, and still do.
When I wanted something faster than the iMac, I looked at MacPro but they are expensive and not easily upgradable. I went for a suggested set-up from Tonymac's hardware list. It works fine most of the time, I had to do a bodge to the sound drivers to reload them every time it wakes from sleep. Occasionally it will freeze with the only cure being a re-start. It usually happens soon after start up if I do much with a browser. i think it's something to do with the video driver. Once it's running it goes for days.

3 main drawbacks for me: 1 I can't run 64bit VMs as a virtualisation switch has to be off in the BIOS. 2 It is a real pain to update (as you can see from the attached) , which is why I haven't. 3 Whole disk encryption using OSX doesn't work on the boot drive (3rd party can work) All based on Mavericks experience.

I use Little Snitch to make sure nothing I don't want to phone home can do so. It really helps to have a Mac of some sort as well as your target PC hardware.

OS Wars declaration: My preferred OS is OSX on Mac and other H/W. I am happy with Win XP, 7. I hate Win 10 but once it has been castrated and otherwise neutralised, it is useful and tolerable. I run Linux Mint on an old macBook (dual booted with SL) because it can't be updated beyond Snow Leopard. I'm not so happy with the way MacOS is being locked down and it took me ages to work out how to get full control of Sierra.

sep990 said:

Depends on what version of MacOS you want to run and budget.

I have had lion running on a dell optiplex 755, Yosemite on a vostro 200 and Sierra on a HP8200 elite.

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Did you have any special requirements, as I have a dell optiplex380 I could use to possibly try it out.

Chris1979 said:

Did you have any special requirements, as I have a dell optiplex380 I could use to possibly try it out.

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The only things I had to buy for both dells was a GPU and usb sound card, I bought a hd5450 and the usb sound card was plug and play for about £2 from Amazon.

The gpu was £25. I should say that the only things I could not get working are iMessages and FaceTime as for this I need proper mac ids.

Quick look on line it should work as my vostro was the same spec. Just check what Ethernet card it has.

I have an Nvidia gfx card that works out of the box for Macs if you want it?

Can't really add much else to what others have said already. You'll need patience and plenty of it. Watch YouTube videos, plenty of visual guides there too.

Captain Jack said:

I have an Nvidia gfx card that works out of the box for Macs if you want it?

Can't really add much else to what others have said already. You'll need patience and plenty of it. Watch YouTube videos, plenty of visual guides there too.

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What model is it? As I have a few knocking around.

9800 gtx I think. Most recent-ish Nvidias will work. Avoid ATIs...

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9800 gtx I think. Most recent-ish Nvidias will work. Avoid ATIs...

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How much do you want for it?

Just enough to cover postage... not going to ever use it for anything else.

Captain Jack said:

Just enough to cover postage... not going to ever use it for anything else.

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I will take it then, I will send a pm in a bit to discuss the payment

i tried to get hackintosh installed on my pc but it wont even get to the install screen, i used the amd64 flag on yosemite zone but it doesnt get past logo screen and the progress bar doesnt even move

Try passing a debug flag on startup (I think it's a -d one - can't remember). What hardware (motherboard/CPU) are you using and what bootloader are you trying? There are several, like Chameleon, Multibeast etc.

Hackintosh is not for the faint of hearted - it took me many days to just install the thing.

Where did you get the ISO file from please?

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Try passing a debug flag on startup (I think it's a -d one - can't remember). What hardware (motherboard/CPU) are you using and what bootloader are you trying? There are several, like Chameleon, Multibeast etc.

Hackintosh is not for the faint of hearted - it took me many days to just install the thing.

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well basically my motherboard is asus and my cpu is a amd athlon 2 x4 645 and im using yosemite zone which supports amd cpus and yosemite zone uses chameleon