Comments for ClarkM.com - Clark Mercer http://clarkm.com Social Home of Clark! Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by Andy http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-11 Andy Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:10:15 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-11 Hey did you get your hackintosh successfully running that you described in the article? (http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe) Hey did you get your hackintosh successfully running that you described in the article? (http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe)

]]> Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by Bart http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-10 Bart Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:05:47 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-10 did you ever get it done? still quite interested... did you ever get it done? still quite interested…

]]> Comment on Hackintosh is Alive!! Update by Ed http://clarkm.com/hackintosh-is-alive-update/#comment-4 Ed Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:42:44 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=24#comment-4 Hi, I found you blog while browsing the web for Hackintosh Desktops. I have a 2006 Mac Pro (version 1,1) and I have been having issues with Starcraft 2. I have been very dissapointed with Apple's support of this model and their current video card offerings. This Mac Pro has served me well, but it's starting to show it's age. I considered getting a new Mac Pro, but after having successfully installed a retail copy of SL on an ASUS 1005HA (my own HackBook Mini), I am strongly considering building myself a Hack Pro. Your blog has given me a lot more motivation to do this. I am patiently waiting for your guide! Any updates? Thanks, Ed Hi,

I found you blog while browsing the web for Hackintosh Desktops. I have a 2006 Mac Pro (version 1,1) and I have been having issues with Starcraft 2. I have been very dissapointed with Apple’s support of this model and their current video card offerings. This Mac Pro has served me well, but it’s starting to show it’s age. I considered getting a new Mac Pro, but after having successfully installed a retail copy of SL on an ASUS 1005HA (my own HackBook Mini), I am strongly considering building myself a Hack Pro. Your blog has given me a lot more motivation to do this. I am patiently waiting for your guide! Any updates?

Thanks,
Ed

]]> Comment on Hackintosh is Alive!! Update by clark http://clarkm.com/hackintosh-is-alive-update/#comment-3 clark Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:35:30 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=24#comment-3 Hey Tom Thanks for following up about the project; I mean to post an update fairly soon. The hackintosh has performed very well overall. Everything moves very fast and you get everything you come to expect out of a mac. I would honestly say it performs as well, if not better, than my 2008 Mac Pro. However I do 2 bugs to complain about; one is more major than the other. First, the wifi card I bought does not work with the system, it only works in Win7. Second, and more major, the system will not shut down properly. I call this the 'restart bug.' When I click "shut down" on mac gui, the system will shut down and then turn back on about 5 seconds later. It acts like it is completely powered off for about 5 secs and then comes back on! I think this has something to do with the dsdt and am working with my friend on fixing this bug. Overall I am satisfied with the rig. Other than the restart bug I have pretty much built a vanilla mac. I am excited to hear you are cooking up this recipe and will try to get a guide out there for this project before too long. The kexts for the Pro-E board will definitely be beneficial for you when building this and I will include them in my guide. Cheers, Clark Hey Tom
Thanks for following up about the project; I mean to post an update fairly soon.
The hackintosh has performed very well overall. Everything moves very fast and you get everything you come to expect out of a mac. I would honestly say it performs as well, if not better, than my 2008 Mac Pro.
However I do 2 bugs to complain about; one is more major than the other. First, the wifi card I bought does not work with the system, it only works in Win7. Second, and more major, the system will not shut down properly. I call this the ‘restart bug.’ When I click “shut down” on mac gui, the system will shut down and then turn back on about 5 seconds later. It acts like it is completely powered off for about 5 secs and then comes back on! I think this has something to do with the dsdt and am working with my friend on fixing this bug.
Overall I am satisfied with the rig. Other than the restart bug I have pretty much built a vanilla mac.
I am excited to hear you are cooking up this recipe and will try to get a guide out there for this project before too long. The kexts for the Pro-E board will definitely be beneficial for you when building this and I will include them in my guide.
Cheers,
Clark

]]> Comment on Hackintosh is Alive!! Update by tom http://clarkm.com/hackintosh-is-alive-update/#comment-2 tom Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:42:52 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=24#comment-2 After a month or two, how has it performed? Any complaints? Did you get dual monitors hooked up? I'm about to cook up your recipe ;), if you were to re do it is there anything you'd do differently? These two blog posts have been a ton of help, much appreciated! Thanks, Tom After a month or two, how has it performed? Any complaints? Did you get dual monitors hooked up? I’m about to cook up your recipe ;) , if you were to re do it is there anything you’d do differently?

These two blog posts have been a ton of help, much appreciated!

Thanks,
Tom

]]> Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by clark http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-9 clark Sat, 22 May 2010 22:40:31 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-9 thats sweet man i will definitely keep everyone posted. ive been taking pics all throughout the process and plan on doing some sort of guide or at least one or two more blog posts! i have the whole thing all prepped right now - i just got finished running the memtest. the hackintosh will be getting some snow leo love tonight! and dont worry, you will know all about it! thats sweet man i will definitely keep everyone posted. ive been taking pics all throughout the process and plan on doing some sort of guide or at least one or two more blog posts! i have the whole thing all prepped right now – i just got finished running the memtest. the hackintosh will be getting some snow leo love tonight! and dont worry, you will know all about it!

]]> Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by Chris http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-8 Chris Fri, 21 May 2010 23:17:02 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-8 Pretty excited to hear how it turned out. I'm planning on building a similar computer in a month or so, so keep us posted! Thanks! Pretty excited to hear how it turned out. I’m planning on building a similar computer in a month or so, so keep us posted!

Thanks!

]]> Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by clark http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-7 clark Tue, 18 May 2010 01:02:44 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-7 I haven't actually got my rig set up yet. There are still pieces in the mail. I consulted with a pretty knowledgeable guy before taking on this project so I'm pretty confident the Pro-E will work great. This guy uses just about the same config as me: http://j.mp/af54oF. I plan on using retail snow leo 10.6.3 with chameleon bootloader. Stay tuned and I will definitely let people know how things are going. I expect some components in the mail tmrw so there will definitely be an update to this blog. I haven’t actually got my rig set up yet. There are still pieces in the mail. I consulted with a pretty knowledgeable guy before taking on this project so I’m pretty confident the Pro-E will work great. This guy uses just about the same config as me: http://j.mp/af54oF. I plan on using retail snow leo 10.6.3 with chameleon bootloader. Stay tuned and I will definitely let people know how things are going. I expect some components in the mail tmrw so there will definitely be an update to this blog.

]]> Comment on My $1000 Mac Snow Leopard Hackintosh Recipe – “Hack Pro” by Nick http://clarkm.com/budget-mac-snow-leopard-hackintosh-recipe/#comment-6 Nick Mon, 17 May 2010 15:49:23 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=22#comment-6 So which install of Snow Leopard did you end up using to get the system to boot? Retail DVD plus a bootloader? Currently using a Q8200 and have 10.6.3 running perfectly using chameleon and a retail dvd of SL. Not sure if I want to risk this setup to try an i7 hackintosh build unless I can find someone with the Pro-E working. So which install of Snow Leopard did you end up using to get the system to boot? Retail DVD plus a bootloader?

Currently using a Q8200 and have 10.6.3 running perfectly using chameleon and a retail dvd of SL. Not sure if I want to risk this setup to try an i7 hackintosh build unless I can find someone with the Pro-E working.

]]> Comment on Greatness is Upon Us!! by Brian http://clarkm.com/greatness-is-upon-us/#comment-5 Brian Thu, 13 May 2010 15:23:28 +0000 http://clarkm.com/?p=20#comment-5 the site looks great, keep it up. the site looks great, keep it up.

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