Anyone build a hackintosh for music related stuff?

[jamthrax]

I would want to pick components known to work and if someone already built a system with the right specs that was easy to set up I would want to just duplicate it.

Just sent him a message.. he has been making them since mac crossed to intel so all components will be stable

[Hippie]

Built one? No
I did put OSX on my PC (Asus A8N, AMD3700XP+, Nvidia 7800GTX) to work around the old Traktor Pro send monitor state Windows bug tho
It worked a treat but since they fixed the bug in Traktor 2 I've gone back to XP.

[Nephew]

I have a friend who builds hackintosh to order.. it runs like a demon when using it for music. Running traktor would have no problems and he bench marked ableton will 100 channels on audio + 60 channels on massive no problems.

Geebus Rice! Now that's a phucking hog.

[CryderSteez]

I might be interested in one of these as well, does anyone know how hackintosh setups do in dual boot environments?

[Rukks]

I might be interested in one of these as well, does anyone know how hackintosh setups do in dual boot environments?

Don't know what kind of dual booting you are referring to but you can partion just fine and boot into either system...atleast thats what I did with win7 and OSX.

Would be the same as setting up two partitions running windows 7 which I did on my old laptop, one for music and one for everything else...

[Rukks]

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/search/label/CustoMac

Pick around that site for a while...thats a new page that I didn't have when i built one...

Honestly I don't care for the OS at all but my gf wanted it and I could see why you would want mac for your desktop since I know you have a macbook pro.

I might get back into hackintosh if I ever hear back from apple about jobs haha

Then again for what I do i bet they still use windows haha

edit: Graphics cards are the most important thing, basically any intel CPU will work but the wrong graphics card can really f u. As you can see from that page they basically match up the hardware inside the 'desktop' apple computers.

[Xonetacular]

Wow that site is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Damn there is so much crap I want to buy. Every time I try to save up for CDJ-2000s I always think of all the other things I could just buy instead or save my money. $3200 on CDJ 2ks, or spend half as much and get a whole bunch of more useful things.

I still need to put aside money for a hotel for ultra...

[CryderSteez]

Don't know what kind of dual booting you are referring to but you can partion just fine and boot into either system...atleast thats what I did with win7 and OSX.

Would be the same as setting up two partitions running windows 7 which I did on my old laptop, one for music and one for everything else...

My needs are a little more specific, I do engineering/design work on the side and the software I use(Solidworks) is picky about what video cards it likes(pretty much the InVida quaddro series). Since I'd imagine that hackintosh drivers for those cards could be difficult to manage I'd essentially be looking at a dual video card setup. Pain in the ass? Yes. Possible? Who knows, not I right now...

[rgtb]

Just FYI: while it is perfectly fine to build a hackintosh in many countries, it isn't in the US. US courts have repeatedly upheld apple's EULA which prohibits installing os x on non-apple hardware.

In fact, for that reason, most us-based forums prohibit discussion of hackintosh.

[brian_johnstone]

i'm waiting on a little net book coming running osx, paid £100 on ebay for it, simply to see if i like the os as ive never really tried it. But if i do i plan to build a monster of a desktop for home.