Hackintosh + Logic 8 ?

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Hi guys,
I was wondering if anybody here has gone the hackintosh (OSx86) route?
I would love to install Logic on my PC as i am fed up with cubase. what will be the difference between a mac and a hackintosh? drivers, software versions etc... any potential problems you can think of?


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Flextone
 
I have Logic Pro 8 running fine on osx86 (kalyway leopard 10.5.1) all on a Dell D620 laptop. No problems so far since I just installed it a few days ago. But from what I've heard, there should be no problems. You have to of course install leopard on your hackintosh first which took me a while to get going.

Do some research about your hardware over at: http://www.insanelymac.com/
 
what exactly is osx86?
will i need special versions of plugins and software?
 
0sx86 is hackintosh.

I can't see why you'd need special plugins... After all, it is OS X... but I could be wrong.
 
osx86 is an project in which coders have been trying to get OSX to run on PC hardware. It really is a challenge, and the guys have done great work, but you have to be pretty tech savvy if you want to get things working right. Insanely mac is a good place to start if you have questions.

it is NOT legal to download and use those copies of OSX that people post in newsgroups and torrent sites (hence the name you used: hackintosh). And, you cannot just try to install a legit copy of OSX on your PC hardware without the hacked builds - It simply won't work.

A new company called Psystar (http://www.psystar.com/) has just started selling desktop PCs which they will pre-install a hacked (and fully operational) OSX version on there for you for an extra 150 ish. Again, apple is working on suing them with all kinds of claims, and I'm not possitive anyone who has ordered from Psystar has even actually recieved a computer yet...
 
shackrock said:
osx86 is an project in which coders have been trying to get OSX to run on PC hardware. It really is a challenge, and the guys have done great work, but you have to be pretty tech savvy if you want to get things working right. Insanely mac is a good place to start if you have questions.

it is NOT legal to download and use those copies of OSX that people post in newsgroups and torrent sites (hence the name you used: hackintosh). And, you cannot just try to install a legit copy of OSX on your PC hardware without the hacked builds - It simply won't work.

A new company called Psystar (http://www.psystar.com/) has just started selling desktop PCs which they will pre-install a hacked (and fully operational) OSX version on there for you for an extra 150 ish. Again, apple is working on suing them with all kinds of claims, and I'm not possitive anyone who has ordered from Psystar has even actually recieved a computer yet...
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It is far from challenging, you stick the dvd in the drive and 20 min later you are running 10.5.2. You can just go buy Leopard and use the EFI emulator so you dont have to steal the os from some sketchy p2p. No one uses hacked kernals anymore.
 
I am using Leopard 10.5.2 and Logic Studio on my Thinkpad T60p. It runs very well, but my Hercules 1612FW is causing real issues, audio dropouts and stuff like that. It works great on Windows XP, but the Mac drivers Hercules makes just don't cut it.
 
It is far from challenging, you stick the dvd in the drive and 20 min later you are running 10.5.2. You can just go buy Leopard and use the EFI emulator so you dont have to steal the os from some sketchy p2p. No one uses hacked kernals anymore.
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Several of my friends tried that. Tons and Tons of problems...they just stuck with XP...

but more so, I meant it was challenging for the hackers who made it all work.
 
I dont know what they were using but as of nov of last year, the EFI emulator has allowed the use of vanilla kernals and works with just about anything (even amd hardware). Like I said, I was up and running on 10.5.2 in 20 minutes and everything worked perfectly. It was the normal OSX setup, nothing else
 
altitude909 said:
I dont know what they were using but as of nov of last year, the EFI emulator has allowed the use of vanilla kernals and works with just about anything (even amd hardware). Like I said, I was up and running on 10.5.2 in 20 minutes and everything worked perfectly. It was the normal OSX setup, nothing else
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Are the emulators available seperate, or with a release? Honestly just looking at the osx86 page, it looks like it's still VERY hardware picky, and pretty hard to do! Maybe I'm missing it, lol.
 
altitude,,sure it CAN be that straight forward,,,

but lets face it,,even a glance at the hackintosh forums would tell you that 99.9% of computer setups will require knowledge,skill,time and a hell of a lot of patience to get all hardware working 100%

unless someone was super keen,,,i'd honestly be inclined to discouarage them from the hackintosh route,,,even though my two are running beautifully.


To answer the original question,,,,if you are lucky enough to have hardware that works out well....there really is no difference.

if you are seriously interested, browse hackintosh.org or insanelymac and look for hardware compatibility lists. Plenty of people will have published reports on motherboards,,graphics cards,,etc etc
 
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