Has anyone had any sucess with the x86 project?

What laptop do you have?

do you think that “piece of shit” will support the OS ? do you have even the least bit of confidence in this?

I got mine to run, but it crashed every few minutes and it’s unstable. I don’t get why people are even trying this. Get a real Mac!

Cnet.com had a video detailing the process. Also, you can search google for the term “Hackintosh”. If you’re not going to use the laptop for anything else, I say go for it.

Quite a lot of people have success from this project, because they follow a tutorial or recipe that details a known well-working set of components to build a hackintosh from.

As for the question as to why people are trying this, it should be fairly obvious given the general price of buying a real mac. If you have some computer nouse, it’s got to the point with the OSX86 project that it’s actually pretty easy going.

I was able to run OS X on some older POS laptop, but it was not very stable and I only ran it a couple of times. Here is a list of incompatable hardware for reference. Most importantly your processor needs to be SSE-II or later to install OS X.4.

@Klass4 i have a real mac
@richard its 1.4ghz 256ram intel chip
@iwamoto i have a little bit of confidence and since i can just take the harddrive out and reformat it with disk utility i have no worries if it stuffs up

Haha i did it; mum got a new laptop so i got her old one (one year older than mine 760mb ram 1.6Ghz) and tiger installed brilliantly!!!

good, next up…a real mac :) and im not joking, friend of mine, first threw it on his vaio, now has a macbook

Good work dude.

(@iwamoto – he says above he has a mac already).

ah, my bad and humble apologies :)

* sings * It’s tooo late to apologiiiise… It’s toooo laaaaattteeee…

Well you’ve already experimented with OSx86, but I’m gonna answer the question anyway… Yes, I have a Hackintosh, and yes, it works awesomely. Required some patience.