Topic: The Official Speedlabs Hackintoshing 101 - OSX on standard PC hardware

[glitch]

* chris brandishes banstick

Go on chris... make the world a better place.

















































Hit yourself with it!

[Brad-Pioneer]

This makes me wish I could be fucked nuking the main OS on my box.  Oh well when the cash comes for the C2D upgrade...  AFTER refinancing the house.

You guys need to buy Blu-Ray drives so I can get a raise!!!

[Caelum]

You guys need to buy Blu-Ray drives so I can get a raise!!!

narh man, it's the other way around


i need a raise so i can buy a bluray drive!

[Arghdee]

I need a raise so i can be motivated to work

[glitch]

actually, you are both wrong... we should ALL get raises and Pioneer should give us all a free blu-ray drive for "Promotional Purposes"

|G|

[nikon]

i got lotsa test data

* nikon glances at xXx stash

so pioneer should gimme a free one i say and make me work for them providing them with the goodies i collect and gimme a raise to like 200k cus they know they want to

brainwashing is fun

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

[gelf]

i definitely need a raise before i can get a bluray drive of any shape or size

[Brad-Pioneer]

Well you guys should take up a second job like I have, and then still do freelance consulting at night like I do

[Arghdee]

No way. I've been there done that (worked 2 jobs) before thanks very much.

[zebra]

i definitely need a raise before i can get a bluray drive of any shape or size

Hey man, I'd never have even touched one if it were not for Sony. I hope there is some sanity in pricing in sight. I'd lay down $400 for one, no problems. $1000? Nah - even for the enterprise, not sure I could justify it *yet*.

[Big Daddy Juggs]

i just completed an install on a p4 2.4ghz machine... granted its just running all the packaged drivers, but everything *seems* to be working quite happily literally out of the box. 

video is defaulting to 800 x 600 with an gf4 mx 400, but i'm sure a graphics driver update will fix that.


can post more when i get home from work.

[JJJ]

video is defaulting to 800 x 600 with an gf4 mx 400, but i'm sure a graphics driver update will fix that.

Good to hear you've had some success.  I very much doubt the gf4 mx will support Quartz Extreme.  So you will have fairly bad video playback and such.  When i tried a hackintosh with a gf4mx back in 10.4.6 the best i could get was modding then installing the macnvidia kexts - that allowed me to change resolution.

[gelf]

gf4is CI/QE unsupported on a native mac (G4 powermac)so it will not  work on hackintosh. FX5200+ are CI/QE supported in NVidia models. Radeon 9550+ are CI/QE supported for ATI models

[Big Daddy Juggs]

when you say will not work, do you mean will not work for all upper values of awesomness (that can be obtained by such a card anyway) or do you mean work at all?

cause as i said, mine is quite happy running at 800 x 600 and i'm just grabbing some codecs to test my downloads.


i've also got a 9200 spare, and a 9700 pro spare, so it can always be upgraded if need be.

[Arghdee]

CoreImage/QuartzExpress is what won't work.

ie, card is just a dumbarse framebuffer.