The guys at Jupiter Broadcasting has been nice enough to do 2 videos, total 2.5 hours… that goes into real detail on how to perform a retail DVD Mac OS X Snow Leopard install on the hardware below:
johnnythegeek1 describes his new 10.6.5 Snow Leopard budget system setup with Nvidia 8400GT graphics card, Intel E6500 (2.93 Ghz dual core) and 500 GB SATA hard drive and also 3GB Corsair RAM.
In part 4 of his tutorial Fox talks about the System Profiler in Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 to find out what hardware is working and what is not, then using utilities such as OSX86Tools to try to get those hardware working , if OSX86Tools doesn’t fix it you will need to download more drivers.
A continuation of part 2, it talks about restarting and boot loading again after Leopard 10.5 install, and choosing your boot drive from prompt. It shows you the Mac OS X operating system booting up for first time on his pc hardware. Fox also talks about how ethernet networking should work, and if not it is possible you chose a non-compatible motherboard.
Here’s part 2 of Fox’s Hackintosh Mac OS X on PC tutorial. In this video tutorial he talks more about the bootloader. Using the bootloader to boot, then using a retail Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 DVD to install the Mac OS X operating system. Fox also takes you through the installation of Mac OS X 10.5 step by step….such as choosing the hard drive and removing operating system component if you want to.
MacOSXonPC.com believes that people shouldn't pay such high prices for Apple computer hardware with such low hardware specifications, when you are able to take advantage of the stability and ease of use of the Mac OS X operating system with affordable and powerful PC hardware.
Ask yourself, if you can build a powerful Quad Core Intel CPU computer with 4 GB of RAM, and powerful NVidia Graphics running Mac OS X Leopard natively for less than $500 why wouldn't you?
A similar specification from Apple for a Mac Pro desktop starts at $2499 on the Apple website.
