So here it is, what are your reasons for installing Mac OS X on to your generic PC hardware? Is it curiosity, maybe you want to evaluate it because you intend do buy a real Mac someday, or are you, like me, an old and loyal Apple owner and follower who has become disenfranchised by the lack of a mid-range Mac Tower and simply does not have the budget for an expensive Mac Pro? Let us know your thoughts.....

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MacBook Pro 15" | Mac OS X 10.6 • 2 GHz Intel Core Duo • 2 GB DDR2-667 • ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 128 MB • 100 GB Serial-ATA
Hackintosh | Mac OS X 10.5.6 • 3 GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ • MSI K9N AM2 • 2 GB DDR2-667 • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB • ALC888 Audio • 300 GB Serial-ATA
iPhone 3G • 8 GB

it all started last summer i saw the mac adds then i heard about leopard and saw a preview with it i felt in love with the smooth design and simplicity. At first i wanted to buy an imac but in my country(Romania) it costs about 25-35% more than in the USA, damn with that money i could buy 3 quad core intel pc's, after days of searching i found the osx86 project and here i am this was the medium weight story ) the light weight story: got tired of windows and the crap i was getting after installing 3-4 simple programs, bye bye Windows

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Hello, My curosity was sparked a few years ago after using deadmoos through vmware, boy was that slow. after that i liked the os even though it was unusable really. bearing in mind this was on an old socket a processor with 512mb ram. after that i was more or less hooked on the project. but now in the current time (now that i have everything stable with leopard) its more the different approach of apple that makes me use my hackintosh install over xp and vista, not to mention the good community and forums keeps me a happy mac'er..

Firewalk

I've used windose and linux since 1995 I always though windose was a pile of crap but unfortunatly linux never has applications I like or want to use.
About 2 years ago a job I started doing has a mac and a "woman" now my girlfriend who was an ex-designer and mac enthusiast. I had a play around and realised that this was the nearest thing to commercial linux that you'd ever get and "in my opinion" had a few improvements over the original unix layout.
No way can I justify spending the cash on a real mac and to be honest my anti-capitalist nature would find it hard even if I could afford it. But that doesn't stop me from seeing and using a good thing.
The day someone puts a linux package together that is as well organised as this and has the application support that this does I'll have found my home till then hacking this is the best compromise I have between usability and freedom.

Well I was bored onetime and installed a Tiger "look-a-like" on my Xp machine but I did not like that too much so I tried Windows Blinds but that too sucked haha. One day my attention sparked again to play with the Mac look and somehow I stumbled upon OS X86 and I was stunned to find out I could actually run a patched version of Tiger on my computer. After many hours of trial and error and about $100 worth of dvd's ethernet cards and a new hdd I have everything working fine. And to think less than 6 months ago I had no idea about insanelymac.com and all the great distros that people like Zephyroth have created for us so that we can be our nerdy selves

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CPU: Phenom x3 8650 @2.54 ghz
Mobo: ASUS M3N HT-Deluxe 780i SLI
3 GB 800 OCZ RAM
Lawless 10.5.4 w/ Voodoo Kernel

I hate Winbloze. I run Linux at home also, but some things I need to do, I just either can't do in Linux or the software they have to do it with, I just don't like. I love OS X, but can't afford a Mac Pro so I built my own version of a Mac Pro. haha. And it only cost me about $400. Little by little, I am saving to buy a Macbook Pro. Though it's going to take a while. :-)

I tried tiger about a year ago and i feel in love with it. but i need something that would allow me to do what I do with my computer and tiger wouldn't allow me too. So i went back to Vista and than i saw that Leopard could be ran on AMD so i tried it too see if I could do what i need to do. And after I found out that it works and that it is very stable and I have no crashes I stayed and I will never go back to windows. I love the way Leopard feels, acts, the smoothness of the system
I am a osx86 user for the rest of my life because microsoft let me down with their release of vista and i wanted more
and Leopard gives that too me. Good job Apple!!!!!!!

I got bored with windows, and bsod's and how ridiculously stupid m$ is... so back in the days of JaS 10.4.8 i switched, then got Tubgirl's 10.4.10 and was sold on OSX,

now leopard is my main OS, i dont even have windows on here anymore except for vmware, and i only use it for certain tests, actually a rarely use it..

Now im gonna sell my desktop and buy my freinds macbook pro (cuz he has two) - I love apple, they are like the people who make all the neat stuff you think youll only ever see in movies, they bring it to real life, screw m$

I was a long time Amiga User, we always were closer to the Mac as the PC guys - same processor, better GUI, exclusive hardware. I ran MacOS 7.5.1 on my Amiga 4000T/060 on the Shapeshifter emulator... worked fine. But all I had was Word, Photoshop and a demo version of Doom. So I didn't use it often. But it was cool to work with MacOS.

At the end 2005 or beginning 2006 I got my first information about OSx86 - from a Mac dealer! I wanted to check out how much an acceptable Mac would cost - too much. But he told me about OSx86. It also should work on AMD, but there are more patches neccessary. After experimenting with the disgusting deadmoo image I had my first stable OSx86 working in May 2006 - MacOS 10.4.5. I had Jas and Myzars version at the same time and decided for myzars, it had a better installer. I had QE/CI with my ATI X1600XT from beginning, but only 1280x1024 @ 60Hz on a CRT monitor (flicker). Some Windows where sometimes plain white or even transparent. Myzars 10.4.6 was (and still is) a great, and with his 10.4.7 update I worked with it till Zephyroths 10.5.1, all images since 10.4.8 had a bug.

My first Windows 98SE I had in 1999, then 2004 XP and later the 2005 Media Center Edition. And that was it. Actually I have 4 Hackintoshes, one has a very crappy Windows which always crashes and one a plain installed Windows MCE 2005, no gfx or mainboard drivers. Sometimes I will install a Windows Server 2003 for Audio Editing 'cause my 16ch-soundcard has only PPC drivers for the Mac and I have no good sequencer for the Mac, too. Except of this Windows will be dead, I think. Ok, maybe Parallels will get a copy.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64

I started using Linux back in 1998 with debian. i later moved to gentoo and stuck with gentoo up until this year. I left gentoo because it seems to have lost its track. i tried OS X 10.4.8 and thought it was awesome but, i could not get qe/ci working with my puny geforce 6100. so now im here. and unless gentoo gets its act together im not going back any time soon. and even if it does its not going to be first in my grub boot order.