I still haven’t figured out how to just add a email link. So you can contact me at this email address, it is the one I use in forum posts. Which will probably be from where you got the link to my website. You may have also come here from YouTube, in which case my nick there is tswiftshipper : )
starlets: webmaster e-mail
I will begin to add some pictures of some of the websites I have made. Nothing high tech, just some fan pages and some basic business web pages for our family business and one for a colleague.
This will replace the web page gallery I previously had in my old design. Just give me time to figure out how to add pictures.
I will be posting my steps in building my own “ Hackintosh”. This is a standard, DIY PC computer that is hacked to run Mac OS Tiger / Leopard / Snow Leopard – Intel versions. Once all the dust settles, and I have a working system and the tutorial to build it is finished I will also try to give a comparison between my new Hackintosh and the PowerMac G5 DP 1.8 GHz it will replace.
Now, before you grab a Mac OS X disc and load it on the first PC you find, please note that this works on specific models of pre-built (HP, Dell, IBM, etc) computer or on DIY PC that have been built with specific Motherboard / CPU / Video Card combinations that are known to work.
I have gone and read up on what components work and which ones don’t, at the main information sites with all things Hackintosh: http://www.insanelymac.com and http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page. These two pages are some of the best resources to get help and learn how to do this hack. And should provide links to any other relevant sites.
My method will be to make my own computer with built to order parts. That is I am buying parts that are known to work or be the nearest equivalent model from the same company. I will post parts list, price and pictures in my next post. I first need to sell my current PowerMac to pay for the cost of the new Hackintosh. Total cost for my Hackintosh will probably be under $400.00 USD. I need to find or estimate the cost of the PC case, which I already own and will repurpose for the new components.
Now, my computer will be a dual-boot. It will have two operating systems. It will not however have anything from Redmond, WA. Now I am not a Microsoft-basher, I am just not a gamer so I don’t need to boot to Windows. I will be making my computer a dual boot between Ubuntu Studio 9.04 and Mac OS Leopard or Snow Leopard.
I actually have been very impressed with Ubuntu, I have been running these last two months Ubuntu Studio 9.04 on my PowerMac that I will selling. It works perfect, the only command line I had to do was to make the 3D acceleration work on the video card.
WARNING:
Please note, before I go any further with how-to instructions I should add that using Mac OS X on a non-Apple built computer is still a gray area. Legally it is a gray area and in reliability it is not 100%. Apple is probably not going after a hobbyist that make one for him/herself. But it will go after anybody who tries making some to sell, just ask Psystar, Inc.
If you are not the type who actually like to open up and tinker with the inside of your computer, the kind that like the iMac because it is an “ All-in-one “ design, then this is not for you. You are better off saving up and buying a new Mac from Apple or getting a good used one off eBay.
Hey, I just realized this website, is hosted on Debian. The same Linux distro I am using on my little iMac.
This is my new kiki-productions page. I will be setting it up over the next few days. I will also add back some of the old content and add some new stuff.
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