I just finished installing the latest update from Apple on my hackintosh (after a lengthy backup process) and everything seems to be working perfectly. I just did the update from the software update, like a real Mac. I damn near crapped my pants when the system didn’t boot the first time. I thought I killed my computer. But it booted fine the second time. It was just one of those “double reboot” updates Apple puts out every so often. I wish I would have known that in advance.

All is well in hackintosh land. Back to work for me.

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Today, Apple finally released the long anticipated update to their Mac Pro. The Mac Pro had last been updated over a year and a half ago, and the update was long overdue. Personally, I was looking forward to the update as I was hoping to take the plunge and get a “real Mac” again. Did Apple blow me away? Will I be buying a new Mac Pro? Or did the almighty Apple release a dud?

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I knew it was bound to happen at some point. I guess in the back of my mind, I still held out hope that my Hackintosh was indestructible. Well, it’s not. And this weekend, it “got sick”. I can’t say it died, because I was able to bring it back, but in updating to the latest 10.5.4 OSX update, my graphics went glitchy. In attempting to fix that by loading new graphics drivers, I temporarily killed my Mac.
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This week, I’m writing two smaller articles. Don’t forget to read my article on Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac. Now onto the article.
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After countless hours of testing, building, selling, re-testing, researching, and installing, I have been able to find the exact set of PC components that allow me to run a full-fledged Mac with the latest operating system and all features. But more specifically, I have found the parts that do it all really well. It’s actually pretty easy to get OSX to run on your PC. Any number of cheap computer parts will get you a decent fake Mac. However, as with all PC’s they often do so at the cost of ugliness and noise.

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No… I didn’t misspell that. I now own a Hackintosh instead of a Macintosh. Since Apple went to the Intel chips a couple of years ago (using commonly found PC parts), there has been a lot of development work around getting the Apple OSX Operating System to work on non-Apple hardware. As a result, they have been able to get OSX working near perfection now with the latest Leopard system.
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