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    Default Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    It's been a long time since I played with OSX86 / Hackintosh so figured I'd give it a quick go on my Haswell i7!

    It's taken the best part of a day but it's installing now, and using my AMD 7970 as well - this could be decent!

    Many of you guys trying this? I just used UniBeast to make the installer image and PMPatch to patch my ASRock BIOS so it doesn't constantly reboot.

    I'll run it as my main OS with Fusion if I can get everything working.

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    Well it didn't take long - it started straight up with Ethernet fully working and also iTunes and everything seems to work fine.

    Tried Cinebench a go and it's reporting CPU wise the system is 768cb points which sounds about right seeing as a 3770 is 662 and a 4770K @ 4.4GHz is 822.

    GPU wise it's reporting that it's a Radeon HD 7xxx in Profiler and in Cinebench it says it's a Firepro D700 with 106.20fps which will do me

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    Dude, VMWare, nuff said I spent days getting my last build to dual boot to OSX then I discovered VMWare, formatted and installed just Win 7 and now I can launch OSX Lion, Mountain Lion, Ubuntu, Win XP, Win 8 and even Win 98 (one job required it) with the click of a button I don't see any real downside as I have 16GB RAM installed and an overclocked i5-2500k so more than enough resources to power a very fast host and VM simultaneously.

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    Already tried it mate but wanted full acceleration if possible, and it seems to run better natively than in a VM

    I'm actually using Fusion (just installing) to do it the other way around

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    I've tried it the other way around using parallels, that seemed to work ok but I seldom use OSX so use it Win host, VMWare for other OS. If you mainly use OSX then I guess hackintosh is the best method!

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    Yeah I'm weird I think mate - always use Windows for all my work stuff and then OSX for anything that's just me messing about and definitely prefer it.

    Quite glad they've added full OSX support to the latest ESXi now so I can fully manage it from my Mac! To be fair I need to study quick as got the exam booked for Monday and haven't had chance to do much revising! D'oh!

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    Just realised you posted the VMWare exam links, sorry for telling you how to suck eggs!! Thought you were in the same boat as I was last year.


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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    I'll see how stable it goes but at this rate I might have to run it in a VM on Windows if I get any more major problems!

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    I'll see how stable it goes but at this rate I might have to run it in a VM on Windows if I get any more major problems!

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    It just went nuts as though the GPU was over clocked - it might not be quite as stable as I first thought :/

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    What annoyed me was when I had it all running stable there would be a load of hoops to jump through in order to update OSX without fucking it all up again. For my use VM is perfect, I never do anything intensive inside my VMs anyway but give them all 8GB dedicated RAM anyway.


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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    You're not kidding mate - I just realised that it doesn't boot at the moment and my machine isn't compatible with the default one it uses so it's USB key time to get the thing to load up!

    Just trying to sort it out now, but have got Fusion running a couple of ESXi servers and a vCenter server already which is a result, I might actually get some revision done at this rate

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    Would there be any issue upgrading a non genuine vmware install using my own appleid?


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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    No idea mate - might be worth taking a snapshot first and trying it?

    Friends of mine who use Macs for music are moaning they're seeing various issues but they'll all get fixed soon - the joys of being an early adopter!

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    I tried a hackintosh and realised that it wasnt worth it when you wanted to do serious work on it. Waste of time.

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    Why's that mate?

    The one I'm running here seems fine, I've got hardware acceleration for graphics via the AMD 7970, and speed wise it's absolutely rapid, although it is running on an i7 and an SSD. It's beating the top of the range Macbook Pro geekbench scores that have just been announced so I can't argue at that.

    Maybe I'm just lucky in terms of hardware, although I did have to patch the system BIOS to get it to boot.

    The biggest difference I found was adding a Magic Trackpad - OSX with a standard PC mouse just isn't the same!

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    Default Re: Mavericks on a Hackintosh

    I would run it as a daw and run into problems using external hardware.

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