Park Edwards
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i'd really find out if the guy who's selling you that computer tells you what motherboard he's using before you jump ship. hackintosh's mobo compatibility has gotten alot bigger, but some out there are still buggy.
Mac Pro 3k = hackintosh 1.2k + GH1 1.6k
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i'd really find out if the guy who's selling you that computer tells you what motherboard he's using before you jump ship. hackintosh's mobo compatibility has gotten alot bigger, but some out there are still buggy.
Nik Manning
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I think that was exactly why I didn't want to pay double the price because I am not doing highend computing. Just editing some prosumer at best video. Is it possible to edit avchd in realtime? I do some music and video in my spare time nothing I am doing is mission critical. I won't be using it for work. But with that said I do own a macbook pro, macbook (wife mac), and G5 so maybe I will test the workflow on my macbook. If that seems to work fast enough maybe that would be the way to go as I can be mobile, but I normally have my work macbook pro with me. Decisions decisions!
This is only made possible by the GH1 before I was looking at 4k just for a prosumer camera. I love it!:thumbsup:
You must spend a lot of time rendering! Totally a good option if you have the patience/foresight to plan out renders while you sleep etc.
It's worth it to upgrade an get a core i7 920 chip instead. It's going to be significantly faster. http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/amdphenomiix4965_081209165043/19683.png
That link is a good chart for showing the difference in speed. Though IF that overclock is rock-solid stable, you'll be getting close to i7 performance.
cheezweezl
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If the real product is the "Mac Pro", then maybe a better name for the hackintosh would be the "Mac Amateur". Seems fitting....
djkarn105
Well-known member
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Yep but both of those OS's are just about to come out so they'll be presumably a bit buggy.
Also, I'd run each OS on a different HD... pretty sure you can do this and I don't think that OSX and Windows use the same file format system. (NTFS vs FAT I believe... actually not exactly sure)
It's NTFS (Win) and HFS+ (Apple)
To get my feet wet with OSX, I got myself a Dell Mini 9. Very easy to hackintosh it with all the tools and guides available online. Those guys sure made this easy.
As nicely as it runs on the mini, I can't imagine anyone would actually use a hackintoshed laptop. The awesome Apple touchpad makes half the OSX experience. Soon after I bought myself a Macbook Pro.
I've been building computers since 386SX. If I was going to be doing serious work with an OSX app, it's not going to be on a hackintosh.
As nicely as it runs on the mini, I can't imagine anyone would actually use a hackintoshed laptop. The awesome Apple touchpad makes half the OSX experience. Soon after I bought myself a Macbook Pro.
I've been building computers since 386SX. If I was going to be doing serious work with an OSX app, it's not going to be on a hackintosh.
Im really concerned about the hardware. I realized I would DEFINATELY build
this, NOT buy. I would like to follow an i7 plan though, someone whos
recently put together "certified" parts that work.
Not sure what hardware piece is INTREGAL to getting the OSX to run.
thats obviously the FIRST step.
Park Edwards
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http://www.insanelymac.com/
Motherboard is the key to making a proper hackintosh.
Gigabyte has a good reputation.
Motherboard is the key to making a proper hackintosh.
Gigabyte has a good reputation.