Comments on: Home made Macintosh for under $240 http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:51:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: splitsplut http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-79307 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:32:54 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-79307 Gotta love that new iPhone 3G s, might get one if I can find a good AT&T plan with it

]]> By: justpaul http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57714 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:59:51 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57714 If you can get your hands on the MSIWindosx86.iso disc(torrent). Then it should be easier to install Leopard 10.5.4 on the MSI. The disc was made for the msi wind laptop but should work on the board here.
I used this disc on my Dell Mini 9 and everything worked except for hibernation.

]]> By: guides@uselessninjas.com http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57691 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:43:58 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57691 I believe all Intel ones are automatically recognized, I do know that several cards work so it wouldn’t be too difficult to get it working, the pci works exactly the same as a normal laptop, so anything that has been proven to work with OSX will work with this.

]]> By: pjnofrills http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57680 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:53:22 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57680 Anyone know if you can get any wireless Mini-PCI Express cards to work with this by any chance?

]]> By: guides@uselessninjas.com http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57674 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:04:10 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57674 LOL @ Strider_mt2k

]]> By: strider_mt2k http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57665 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:51:19 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57665 barridh yes please compose a list of all the things we could have done _other_ than this.

that would be useful, right?

]]> By: barridh http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57643 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:11:06 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57643 You would get a pretty reliable OSX machine for 1/5 of the money: Just buy a Dell Optiplex slimline PC, tinker a bit, and off you go.

]]> By: strider_mt2k http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57471 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:08:42 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57471 Nice!
Folks have been installing OSX on the netbooks and the on board hardware is pretty much the same so this makes perfect sense.

I just built an awesome home file/print server using this exact box.
It’s a barebones so you have to BYO ram and sata HD/optical drives.

and yep it was 139.99 from newegg.

Mine has 2gb ram, 2TB of storage and is running Windows XP Pro from a 16gb compact flash card.

When the drives spin down and the printer goes to sleep the whole rig draws about 30 watts and the fan is barely making any noise at all.
(according to my ups display anyway)

great stuff!

]]> By: Mr Novack http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57470 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:33:47 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57470 The motherboard has not PCI slots on it for upgrades, and the ram is laptop ram. Its more likely a laptop motherboard in a case, say, The MacMini.

]]> By: rafael http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57468 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:24:28 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57468 can any video or sound card be added

other ways its just cool not super cool

]]> By: larlar125 http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57463 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:44:18 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57463 Haha, i was looking through and thinking, “Hey, thats pretty neat!” then i noticed the 12 mbps part…

>.<

]]> By: drummi http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57457 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:16:17 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57457 blkmagic, I did the same thing with a Dell Optiplex 620. 3-ish gig CPU makes it a little tiny bit snappier…

]]> By: Per Jensen http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57451 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:50:44 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57451 It’s not 1,2 GHz – it’s 1,6 GHz Please correct this.

]]> By: george http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57444 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:56:44 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57444 any idea on what the performance is like? i’d love to see a YouTube video of what it looks like if anybody else does it. 1.2ghz doesn’t seem to fast, but the price point is great.

]]> By: Hellmark http://hackaday.com/2008/12/31/home-made-macintosh-for-under-240/comment-page-1/#comment-57422 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:29:05 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=7389#comment-57422 Ignore that last comment. Ignorance on my part.

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