If you are looking to build a hackintosh desktop computer (PC) for less than $500, you need to start with a budget priced motherboard that has a chipset that is compatible for hackintosh OSX86 Mac OS X operating system.
The Asus P5G41-M LE/CSM as the name suggest is based on the Intel G41 Chipset and a lot of hackintosh builders have had good luck with the G41 chipset which works out of the box.
In this video a kid, he looks twelve talks about some hackintosh basics and then show you a demo of the Intel Core i5 hackintosh that he has built. C’mon if this kid can build on…you can too.
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.
Here’s a guy name Fox from Japan and his 4 part video tutorials are quite informative, he offers up a lot of good tips for your Mac OS X installation on PC hardware. In this video he will tell you what hardware and software components you need to build the a hackintosh.
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.