On Jan 4, 2:08 am, "jonas ulrich" <[email protected]> wrote:
> So are you saying that I can add large drive support to the digital
> audio without the pci ata card? How? How do I build a Hackintosh? My
> brother just got me a 1.8GHZ dell dimension for $20 at a second hand
> shop.
> -Jonas
> On 12/27/08, PeterH <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Should you consider a faster processor, and you really should, get
> > one which is designed for both 100 and 133 MHz buses.
>
> > But, for that money, you could build an Intel-based Hackintosh, which
> > could easily out-perform any G4 Mac by 5-to-1.
Go to http://www.insanelymac.com/ and start you're research (call it a
hobby).
Yes, now you can run OS X on intel P4 CPUs with SSE2, and on AMDs
using the voodoo kernel. However, getting QE and CI is another story;
it depends on your video card and controllers. Also sound and
networking usually require tweaking certain kexts or adding ones that
Apple doesn't have depending on your board and bridges. You've got to
build or find an iso compatible with you're setup if you want to do a
retail install on a P4 or choose a ready made distribution (not retail-
not vanilla) that will work on your machine.
In July I followed Peter and built a shuttle SG31G2 specifically with
a retail install of Leopard in mind while buying the CPU, memory,
drives and video card. = Strong stable machine now running 10.5.6.
After that experience I went down the other road and fooled, fiddled
and tweaked a retail install onto a HP P4 1.6ghz with 768 ram. Updated
via delta to 10.5.6! It does NOT have QE or CI enabled, but I must say
for that old machine it runs pretty damn well.
"Which will offer me the most expandability and speed?"
The $20 1.8ghz Dell will most likely NOT "out-perform a G4, but by
carefully building your own machine, which is what Peter suggested a
Hackintosh can keep up with a MacPro.
jfmac
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