How to have a Mac without the branding costs! - Hackintosh

[ralgith]

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Last year I began experimenting with building "Hackintosh" machines. These are Mac OS X (I use Snow Leopard) machines built using standard PC hardware. After all, the Intel Macs are 99.9999% standard hardware now, and you just pay a shit ton of money for the aesthetic look of it and the apple branding. So, now I run OS X Snow Leopard in a Virtual Machine and I'm hoping to have access to a Core 2 Duo CPU & Motherboard soon on which to build a proper Hackintosh machine.

For those who want to have a super cheap "MacBook Air" (Mac Netbook) check out this link and choose a Netbook to buy based on their compatibility with OS X! ASUS Eee PC by far rocks this as almost all of the different models have 100% compatibility with OS X. I've played with the Eee PC 901 and 1005HAB models running Snow Leopard and they work great.
http://www.mymacnetbook.com/compatibility-chart/

I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here and write my own tutorial, instead I'm just going to provide you with all the links that have helped me.

OS X Snow Leopard on VMWare or VirtualBox:
http://lifehacker.com/5583650/run-mac-os...on-windows - VirtualBox. This is what I recommend using.
http://lifehacker.com/5435481/run-snow-l...in-windows - VMWare. Really good tutorial for VMWare 7/8/9. I've done this one too.
http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-install...7-9140301/ - For VMWare 7, 8, and 9. I've personally tested it on 7 and 8.
http://geeknizer.com/install-snow-leopard-virtualbox/ - Another for VirtualBox
http://geeknizer.com/how-to-install-snow...n-windows/ - And another for VMWare

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index....are_how_to - Pretty outdated. Just for general reference.

Building a real Hackintosh (No particular order, explore them all):
http://lifehacker.com/348653/install-os-...g-required - In my opinion the best of the tutorials for this, but your mileage may vary.
http://lifehacker.com/5672051/how-to-bui...easy-steps - Really good tutorial on how to do it from scratch. Hopefully Twitch just uses this when her iMac takes a shit post warranty and saves herself a few grand on the Apple branding lol
http://lifehacker.com/5351485/how-to-bui...-to-finish
http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-sn...g-required
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2009/04/buil...-to-k.html
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-inst...ing-a-mac/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86 - This wiki has a metric shit ton of good information and resources, including some legal info. Which is all horse shit from Apple since Apple is built on top of Darwin, a free and open source UNIX OS. Fuckers. That "standing on the shoulders of giants" shit and their ridiculous markup for branding is why I hate Apple with such passion.
http://geeknizer.com/how-to-install-snowosx-universal/
http://ipcosx86.wikidot.com/

http://www.imacx86.com/2010/04/iboot-mul...-based-pc/ - Currently down and domain for sale... just linked in case this is corrected.