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I've built a flawlessly functioning quad-core, 8-jigabyte, Snow Leopard running waq-a-hack-a-slackintosh. I'm running Logic Studio 9 on it, and have installed Mac versions of all of my audio software on it. I've been happily using it for all of my non-gaming needs for a couple of weeks now.

With this, and my netbooks running Ubuntu, the only thing I use Windows for now is my main gaming system, and living-room PC. (which it's suited for)

Weehaw, and that is all...

Over....

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I've always been mac-curious... maybe I would get a low end one bult. Could you do a KVM between both systems you think?

Yeah, that would be no problem. Basically, you want to get one of these two motherboards:

Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3p (two PCIe 16x slots)
Gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3r (one PCIe 16x slot)

Basically the only difference is the amount of x16 slots. So if you aren't going to run two video cards or something like that, you'd be fine. I really can't think of a reason you would run more than one, unless maybe CUDA/OpenCL or something like this.

Basically that motherboard makes things very easy. Combine it with any Core 2 based CPU, plenty-o-RAM, a half-way decent NV card (I use a passively cooled 9600GT (as it's my music computer)

You'll need the $29 upgrade copy of Snow Leopard, an 8GB USB Flash stick, and a little boot-loader hack utility.

It's ever-so-easy. You could actually save a few steps too, by copying my installer image from my USB drive. Then you don't need to do about half of the process.

yeah, pretty much figured the ud3r was the one.

Have looked into it a bit and am thinking the UMP would be cool to do a dual boot Snow Leopard/Vista64 machine with a Radeon 4870 and lower heat 65W Q9400S 2.66GHz. Would play movies with SnowLeopard and play games with Vista. I think starting it out with a 2x2GB config of ram and possibly add 2x1GB or 2x2GB later if that made sense...

Hey did you see this cool thing? Boot time is increased and it costs some $$ but still kind of cool.

http://www.efx-i.com

Haven't seen it. (link doesn't work... investigating... investigating... investigating...)

I want to waqintosch my Netbook. Seems like it's still a lot of work though. My desktop one was incredibly easy, but I've tried the same method on a few things, and it doesn't work so well. (Tried my Netbook, and tried my i7 system with a different HDD.) It works great, but so far just the UD3r and equivalent boards. I like Snow Leopard, so I won't do the Leopard methods.

woops...I was temporarily dyslexic - don't know if this would help with the netbook project but there is a good sized list of compatible hardware on this site.

http://www.efi-x.com

Nice! I read a short blurb about that, and will have to check out the site.

Should be trying EFI-X 1.1 on a X58 board in the next day or so...

Now have fully functional i7, X58, 12GB Haq-A-Maq TM. Weeee Hawwww....

My living room PC is getting some upgrades, and will become my main gaming machine. I don't play games quite as much now, so this should work out well. Since the TV is only 1366x768, I won't need a tremendous video card either. I've got a spare GTX-260 (216 Core version,) which should do nicely.

The plan is to get one of those Belkin gaming keypad things. That way I won't need a full keyboard, and can sit comfortably to play kb+mouse requiring games. (I want it to work as well as a desktop setup, so I don't have anything to complain about.)

Hey all you hackintosh fans! Looks like someone made magic mouse drivers for windows.

Ah, that is a cool mouse. I saw that when I was looking at the videos on the Apple site. I really like the new iMacs and unfortunately have been spoiled by my ridiculous H-IPS display so it would actually be cheaper for me to just get an iMac than to build one because of how expensive the display that I want is.

After using a brand new 24" iMac for 2 months at school, I'm really starting to want one, the screen IS amazing!

yeah that is why I spent a ton on my PC monitor...

McNevin wrote:Hey all you hackintosh fans! Looks like someone made magic mouse drivers for windows.

Well, since I have one, I suppose it would be time to try out these drivers. The mouse has been sitting on my desk in its box since I temporarily terminated the Hack-N-Waq project. I'll give them a go. The mouse is a little too flat for me, so I'm not sure if I'll use it anyway. It just doesn't quite fit my hand.

Getting a nice monitor is always worth it since you look at the thing everyday. I do have a low end LCD connected to low end on board video and it looks really bad. The weird thing is that the video card makes a huge difference and is part of why the LCD looks so bad.

I got a nice monitor, but didn't pay a ton. It's a BenQ 24", and was only around $300 at the time. It looks great, though it does have some barely detectable light areas. Not as much as other monitors that I've used, but you can just see if if you're in the dark, and don't have something bright or moving on the screen. More of a small annoyance really, since it doesn't matter when the monitor is actually in use. I do love a good Apple monitor though. The one Seth has is delightful! 30" of Appley goodness. MMMMMMMMMMM

I actually don't like Seths monitor because it looks too grainy. The panels in the iMacs are the best displays I have ever seen.

I don't think I'd call Seth's grainy, but I do agree that the new iMac panels are improved quite a bit.

Quite improved indeed! I love my 20.1" S-IPS LCD, but a 27" LED backlit H-IPS would make my head explode!

Updated iMac article at engadget

Your guitar would explode in your hands Willy...

You ever try those Magic Mouse drivers?