Snehal, Neetu, Riya, Isha & Ayla
Archive for April, 2010
Hackintosh – My Build
Apr 22nd
Some of you know that I have built a Hackintosh (completed last night). I wanted to share with the group the specs/howto if you wanted to take a plunge as well. For those of you that don’t know, a Hackintosh is a Macintosh without using Apple’s hardware that they charge an arm and a leg for.
I followed the following tutorial (the key drivers for building are motherboard/video card): http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?t=931
That’s all there is to it. It was fairly easy to setup and if you go with the same hardware as I did then let me know and I can certainly answer questions that I can. Plus the forums on TonyMacX are awesome so that’s a great place to start. I am including my hardware list below, the hard drive is a Western Digital but that really doesn’t matter so long as it’s SATA.
Hardware:
Stuff I already had: 320GB SATA Drive, 23” Dell Monitor, USB Keyboard, PS2 Keyboard, USB Mouse.
| Component | Description |
| Processor | Intel Core i7-930 2.8GHz Quad-Core |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R LGA 1366 X58 ATX Motherboard |
| Memory | Kingston 6GB (3 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Triple Channel Desktop Memory Kit |
| Graphics Card | EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB DDR2 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card |
| Case | Cooler Master CM 690 ATX Mid Tower Case |
| Power Supply | OCZ Technology 700W StealthXStream ATX Power Supply |
| OS | Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Media (Upgrade version $30 from Amazon) |
| SATA DVD-ROM | Generic OEM Drive |
Moving moving
Apr 4th
I know it’s been a while since I have posted anything but life has been so darn busy. To start off with we have moved all of our stuff into the house. Next comes the crazy part of actually unpacking all of the boxes. Thankfully we have family and friends who are going help us next weekend.
Not sure when we will actually move into the house but I am ready to move into our own place. (we are working on a plan to take mom with us for a while…I haven’t gone crazy).
Well that is about it for now. I guess I should mention that this is the first post from the iTouch.
