Are you familiar with the term hackintosh yet? Basically a hackintosh is a “hacking” project that runs the Mac OS X operating system on non-Apple PC with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors. This became possible soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transitioning its personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors. If you were to build a computer to run this type of Mac OS X it would be known as a Hackintosh, obviously a combination of the word “hack” and the name of Apple’s main brand of computers, Macintosh. The video below may reveal the ultimate home hackintosh build.
The Ultimate Hackintosh
A friend of mine recently endeavored to build his own hackintosh and filmed the mission. Though the video is a bit lengthy the actual build process is very entertaining as is his style of filming. I will always be an avid fan of the Mac vs PC debate, and the hackintosh concept puts a neat little spin on the technology debate. The system Levi builds here is running Mac OSx 10.6.5 on PC hardware!
Levi used information gathered from NoFilmSchool and Tonymacx86 Blog. Levi currently has his own website under construction, you can bounce over there at levivk.com. At the 7:57 mark in the video Levi uses his newly built hackintosh to open every piece of software he has installed on the system including the entire Adobe CS5 Suite and a number of other resource heavy products. Watch how well the core i7 and the 12 gigs of DDR3 handle it! A valuable resource worth investigating: OSx86: Creating a Hackintosh
Hackintosh Video
Hackintosh System specs:
- Intel core i7 950 (quad core)
- GPU: NVidia geforce gtx 460 756mb
- Mother Board: Gigabyte X58A Ud3r
- Ram: 12gb dd3 1600mhz
- Hard Drives: Ocz Vertex 2 ssd 60gb
- Basic Maxtor 1 TB hard drive
- A 650-watt psu
- Stock coolers and fans
- Cost: $1200.00
Software / Hacking end:
“I used “Iboot loader legacy” for my initial boot, I changed some setting in the bios, and I loaded all my custom kext’s with imultibeast, I used a custom dsdt file for my mobo. And overall everything is running flawless! So happy!”
If you enjoy this video and post, leave a comment for Levi and let him know your thoughts! Impressed? Inspired? Maybe you should be building a hackintosh of your own. If you think you have what it takes to build your own hackintosh I’d advise you to take a look at this the ultimate guide to building your own hackintosh:
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Adam says:
Dec 21, 2010
What the name of the song?
Adam says:
Dec 21, 2010
And can you please list where did you buy the parts from? Coz it’s really cool configuration for 1200 buck.
Levi VK says:
Dec 21, 2010
@adam.
hey adam,
the song is “no cars go” by arcade fire.
As far as where i got the parts from well. i list all the parts in the description and the case and psu were just some cheap ones that worked.
I orderd all the stuff through ncix.com when i got to the check out i price checked everything with cheaper prices i found on the web. i used mostly direct canada to find the cheaper prices.
Then i had it all shipped free to their branch in langly and i just went a picked it all up.
nofilmschool.com has a list of the different part options as well
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Dec 26, 2010
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Jan 13, 2011
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A friend of mine recently endeavored to build his own hackintosh and filmed the mission. Intel i7, 12 gigs of ram! Watch the video….
Yuen says:
Jan 14, 2011
Can u tell me how to set up the whole system? I means how u install Mac with all those custom setting and bios set up
Levi VK says:
Jan 16, 2011
@ Yuen, sorry man, pointless i wouldnt be able to, i already set it up. you can follow lots of other great guides online like i talk about in the video
Kyle says:
Feb 9, 2011
This is utterly incredible and a long time dream of mine, i’m aiming for a set up in my room of equivalent power with a widescreen TV mounted opposite my bed that will be used mainly as a TV through .avi files I have and a seperate screen next to the bed for general browsing.
Is there any way you could provide a more in depth look at how you accomplished this? it would literally make my life complete. I have already seen the lifehacker guide so it is more the hardware that is of interest, is the output 1080p?
hydrogxn says:
Mar 4, 2011
is the firewire port working on this build?
Levi VK says:
Mar 4, 2011
OH yeah man working great, no problems with that at all
hydrogxn says:
Mar 14, 2011
Thanks so much for thebuild. I have mine up and running now. So far so good. <3
Dave says:
May 27, 2011
I am working on a list for the most pain free powerful hackintosh builds. What are the guidelines that I should fallow? I see that newegg.com has public wish lists but I want to build the most powerful hackintosh as possible:
MOTHERBOARD DDR3 FASTEST BUS SPEED LOADED
CPU 6-12 core INTEL/AMD
RAM 16GB-32GB
GPU 1GB-UP
PSU 500WATT-1000WATT
wishlist brand name systems that run hackintosh right out of the box etc. I would like to be able to install the OSX DVD without any hacking software I have heard of the EFiX USB V1.01http://www.expresshd.com/efix-usb-v1-01.html but I would really like to do it without the EFiX USB V1.01.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Daniel Snyder says:
May 31, 2011
There is a book in the post, buy that it’ll give you the answers you need.
Sean says:
Sep 30, 2011
Hi there,
great article indeed. My 5 year old MBP starting to really slow down i really need something very very fast when i have a load of apps open. Hackintosh seems the way to go !
Can you tell me since u made yours which is now over 8 months ago has performance degraded any bit ? (u know with the usual installing of programs etc etc )
In the video you opened a load of apps which was great – but you were not actually doing anything in them. Is it still really fast if you have like premier pro open for editing videos with PS open with some big images and a few browsers open with a load of tabs open ?
Tnx
Sean
James says:
Dec 11, 2011
Note to moderator: My bad, I got my blogs mixed up. duh. This is where I learned about the nofilmschool list. There was another blog I ran across, where people had requested he update it, cause some of his links to Amazon showed discontinued. Not this one, but another one. So, please delete my posts here. Thanks.
Daniel Snyder says:
Dec 11, 2011
Thanks James, deleted your previous comment. 🙂 Glad you found this post helpful!