My Hackintosh

On my last entry, I mentioned that I was building a new super computer. Well, It’s DONE!!

Meet my new Hackintosh!!! What’s a Hackintosh you say? it’s basically a computer that runs on the Mac Operating System but with the guts and parts of a PC computer.

“Why not just go buy the real thing at an Apple store” you might say. Well for one thing, it’s much cheaper to build one than it is to buy a Mac Pro. I’m not talking about $100-$200. I’m talking about almost half the price!

let’s compare shall we?

A Base

Model Mac Prowith the specs of:

• One 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor
• 3GB (three 1GB) memory
• 1TB hard drive
• 18x double-layer SuperDrive
• ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5

will run a price of $2,499.00

My Hackintosh was made with:

• Intel Quad-core i7 3.4GHz processor $319
• Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 Motherboard $129
• 8GB (two 4GB) memory                $42
• 120gb SSD hard drive                $130
• cd/dvd/dl-dvd burner                $20
• AMD Radeon HD 6870                  $179
• computer case                       $100
• power supply                        $115
• 2tb hard drive                      $179
• wifi card                           $50

Total price=                                    $1263

(please note, these prices vary depending at when was purchased)

Not only is it almost HALF the price of a Mac Pro but in almost every way, It’s an even more powerful computer than what Apple is offering. If you throw in a computer monitor which is about another $200 you STILL come out saving so much more than a Mac Pro.

To show you how well it performs, I linked a video comparing the loading time of photoshop on my hackintosh and my Macbook pro.

so there you have it! My Hackintosh. I couldn’t have done it without the help of Tonymacx86 and the Hackintosh community : )

3 down, 26 pages to go

I’m kind of glad the Thanksgiving/Black friday thing is off the table. No more cooking, and no more shopping for computer parts that will be allocated towards my super computer (which will be showcased on a blog entry along with a blog-house warming of my little 7.5 ft X7.5 ft workspace on a future date)

I finally got some time to work on The Sketchbook Project.

the picture is taken on my crappy cell phone camera…why you say? because I want you to go see the real book when it’s done : ). Trust me, It looks a lot better than this image here. Until then, 3 pages down 26 more to go.