HACKintosh

Anyone doing it? Hows it working with REAPER? Problems? I see OSX86........ does that mean you can only access 4GB of RAM?

glowing recommendations so far :D what about the ram thing guys?

alright alright. :) u guys win

my hackintosh i5 750 runs just peachy on snow leopard...

I looked into it earlier this year, but ran away fast after looking at all the technical issues. I have enough to deal with already, and I have access to fully functional macs and PCs with full tech support on a daily basis. So why bother. I know someone who has a fully functional hackintosh protools studio, and he uses it every single day w/o major issues. I was at his studio about 6 months ago, recording live takes. I was the recording engineer pushing all kinds of buttons! That was a fun and novel experience. Again though - the technology is over my head. I have to rely on 'official' support, I don't want to deal with unsupported software / hardware.

unless i'm mistaken all teh parts in a mac are just carefully selected parts that you could easily find in any desktop pc, however they are standardized and carefully selected. if that's the case, then let's say you build your own pc from scratch. what exactly would be the parts you'd need to assemble in order to have a smoothly runnign hackintosh? like what's the mobo in a mac and stuff? what's the soundcard? or does mac actually manufacture their own boards, and all the parts like soundcard and wifi adapter and all that? is it only the cpu that isn't mac?

I think it comes down to technical prowess, too. I had just built a PC and wanted to "get on with it" rather than spend another month or more fighting my way through Hackintosh installs. I had tried one of the "ready made" OSX packages several times and it failed to install, so I gave up and used the Windows OS for which the PC was intended. I had enough problems learning how to get all that up and running perfectly. :)

I run a steinberg MR816 alongside a tl audio fat-track. before that i used a yamaha n12. once you have a working system a hackintosh behaves just like any other mac. you just need to select the right parts - this site is helpful: all you need is the iboot disk to enable the pc to recognise the snow leopard disk and the multibeast programme - both freely downloadable. works nicely for me anyhow.

Just so you know... Some time ago I had to pass a bit of spare time and thought "oh yes I could set up a dual-boot hackintosh on my PC" completely messed up, didn't boot anymore, had to reinstall everything maybe I wasn't geeky enough to do it :D so just saying, be careful and make a backup before you do this (which I hadn't done of course)

My Hack works just fine. Although I've toyed with going back to Windows 7 at points, but I sometimes use Logic too, so I can't really do that. The next machine I build will be an i7, and I'll probably dual boot it for a bit, to compare the performance.