If you are going to embark on the journey of installing a Mac OS X hackintosh OSX86 distribution on your PC laptop or PC desktop hardware, you should know that if the graphics adapter you have or plan to get is not compatible or doesn’t have a “kext” drivers for Mac OS X QE / CI graphics acceleration then you should stop right away and save your energy. Trust me I have been down this road.
The XFX Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT is a great budget video / graphics card for your budget hackintosh build.
It features the Nvidia GPUs for DirectX 10 API certification, this entry-level 8500 GT 256MB (128 bit) card provide adequate gaming performance for less than $100.
Advanced Unified Architecture generates more lifelike character animation and also is the first of its kind that can offload 100% of Blu-Ray and HD DVD movie playback from the CPU.
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.
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.