Lifehackers Hackintosh Overview

This is a quick overview of the LifeHackers guide to building a hackintosh. I used different parts to see if I can do a cheaper build.

The G5 towers you see underneath are old Power PC and can not run Snow Leopard. The Labs that these towers use to be in have been replaced my iMacs. I built this server to manage all the iMacs in the Labs. The towers are still in use but only for internet access and that's it.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L, CPU=Intel E8400, GPU=NVIDIA 9500GT, RAM=4GB OCZ PC2 6400, 1TB Seagate HD 7200.11, SATA DVD Burner, Cooler Master ATCS 840.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• hackintosh
• lifehacker
• ep45
• ud3l
• 10.6.4

[valentijnpetiet]

''maczilla'' LOL

[johnnythegeek1]

@valentijnpetiet Yes! Thanks for watching!

[shane8109]

Good job

[johnnythegeek1]

@shane8109 Thanks for watching! Check out my other videos on building a hackintosh!

[TheOMGn]

3:12 look at that, the old youtube :) good times...

[zable1866xx]

That's right. I have a desktop PC but i use Hackintosh because windows is too mainstream :|

[sarcasm]

[johnnythegeek1]

@izbm666 Oh haha. Yeah I would probably use Linux for Web. Or something on the cloud like an S3 from Amazon or Windows Azure.

[izbm666]

@johnnythegeek1 Ahh now i see, that makes sense haah, i thought you were doing like SQL our webservers with it!

[johnnythegeek1]

@izbm666 I can't re-image a lab full of iMacs with Windows Server. I also can't push Mac OSX applications over the network to these labs full of Macs. I can't even do that with mismatched Client OS and Server OS either but that's another issue. Yeah Mac OS Server is a better choice in this situation. Thanks for watching!

[izbm666]

Mac os server? WHY??