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