Quad Core Mac

October 16, 2008 on 9:34 am | In Blackhat SEO | 10 Comments

Well I finally got around to building a quad core mac!

>> SCREENSHOT (kalyway 10.5.2) <<

>> SCREENSHOT (ideneb 10.5.5) <<

I followed the OSx86 hardware compatibility list (HCL) to ensure the parts I bought were compatible with the mac operating system.

The motherboard of my macbook pro died a few months back and I’ve been missing the power ever since. Since it died I’ve been using an MSI wind laptop with mac os x 10.5.4 installed but the processor isn’t huge and its really meant more as a portable device than a daily work machine.

A lot of people still don’t realise that since Apple went over to the Intel platform a couple of years back, its quite easy to install the operating system on a whole range of standard desktop and laptop computers using either a retail disc or a special ‘hacked’ version such as kalyway 10.5.2 or Ideneb 10.5.5.

Because I used the OSx86 HCL, everything worked out of the box for me and was a breeze to setup. The only problem I had was finding a compatible wireless card. I tried a few usb wifi sticks I had laying around but couldn’t get any to work. I even tried buying a PCI wireless card which is meant to be compatible but couldn’t get that to work but to be fair I think this is an issue with the card or motherboard since it didn’t physically fit well in the first place!  Eventually I managed to find a Netgear WG111 (version 3) and installed it using the RTL8187B drivers for Mac.

For those concerned about copyright/pirate etc. I do have a leopard license that currently isn’t being used so bah!

Hardware

Processor – Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4ghz 8mb L2 cache
Motherboard – Intel BLKDG35EC
RAM – 2 x 2GB Kingston DDR2 PC800
HD – Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM SATA
Graphics – Nvidia Inno3d 8600GT PCIE 512mb S-video/DVI/VGA
Case – Basic case
Power – ACBEL INTELLIGENT POWER 610W ACTIVE PFC
Networking – Netgear WG111 (version 3)

Total cost: About £380

Total time putting hardware together and installing OS: 2-3 hours

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  1. Nice. How do you find installing Mac OS on win laptop?

    Comment by Dominic — 16th October, 2008 #

  2. mmm well it’s not really windows hardware… it’s intel at the end of the day. It’s just that windows is generally more compatible with a wider variety of hardware.

    Anyway it was a breeze, just select the right choices for your hardware when installing it and its a breeze. I have installed it on both the MSI Wind laptop and this quad core hackintosh without any problems at all.

    Comment by admin — 16th October, 2008 #

  3. Congrats SlackerSpammer!
    “OS X is the future” Way to go!!!
    LOL

    Comment by Super Anne — 16th October, 2008 #

  4. I priced out a MAC a few weeks ago — picked every option on their website and ended up at about 20k :) – You made out a lot better but I bet you don’t have 4 750 gig hard drives, and two 30 inch monitors…. me either because 20k is nuts.

    Comment by Ed Charkow (blackhatdigest) — 16th October, 2008 #

  5. Pretty nifty sounding. (only slightly greenish with envy)

    Comment by Dink — 17th October, 2008 #

  6. A quad-core mac for under £400? Damn, now there’s no excuses for me! :(

    Comment by Black Hat Bob — 17th October, 2008 #

  7. So the mac operating system is the choice of spammers is it?

    Your very vocal in London I am gonna come and see you and resolve some things.

    Comment by keniki — 19th October, 2008 #

  8. Can you also state for the record why you made phone calls to my home at 3am in the morning to intimidate me.

    Comment by keniki — 19th October, 2008 #

  9. Keniki my friend, of course it is. Didn’t you get the memo? All spammers use OS X. As for the phone calls, I told you before – it was probably someone else.

    Comment by admin — 19th October, 2008 #

  10. [...] But he decided to do what Steve always does and throw a surprise… He built his own Quad Core Mac! [...]

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