is this hardware enough to try mac?

[shhash]

I'll buy a macbook soon, but before that assembled a much better computer, with a
Q6600 core 2 quad, 2.4 GHZ processor, with 8MB L2
intel DG35EC motherboard, supporting firewire, 1066Mhz FSB.
primary mem of 4GB DDR2.
secondary memory, HDD 500GB SEAGATE, with 8mb cache.
and an nvidia 8600GTS, 512MB DDR2 display adapter,

with these config, my sysm is now a gaming beast with a 64 bit vista installed, its just rocking. now for a laptop I'll go for mac.

by the way, lemme know if any legal versions of mac supports my hardware, I'll purchase one. also please lemme know if it supports dual booting with vista or linux? like what I'm using it now.. or if it can support for VMWARE, thats better.

thanks

[fryke]

No. The only clear legal way to running Mac OS X is buying a Mac that comes with Mac OS X. The same thing goes for things like vmware. Apple doesn't allow running OS X virtually on just any X86-box. You'll need a Mac for that. (And only OS X Server is allowed to be run virtually - on Mac OS X Server, of course.)

[nixgeek]

Originally Posted by shhash

I'll buy a macbook soon, but before that assembled a much better computer, with a
Q6600 core 2 quad, 2.4 GHZ processor, with 8MB L2
intel DG35EC motherboard, supporting firewire, 1066Mhz FSB.
primary mem of 4GB DDR2.
secondary memory, HDD 500GB SEAGATE, with 8mb cache.
and an nvidia 8600GTS, 512MB DDR2 display adapter,

with these config, my sysm is now a gaming beast with a 64 bit vista installed, its just rocking. now for a laptop I'll go for mac.

by the way, lemme know if any legal versions of mac supports my hardware, I'll purchase one. also please lemme know if it supports dual booting with vista or linux? like what I'm using it now.. or if it can support for VMWARE, thats better.

thanks

I would have figured that from all the posts responding to your original one that you would have understood that you can only run Mac OS X seamlessly (and legally) on a genuine Macintosh. I even posted a link from Low End Mac with more affordable options for running OS X. One thing to note about Macs is that they retain their value, so if you were to purchase a G5 Mac or a 1st-generation Intel Mac, you would still be able to run Mac OS X at very usable speeds while still keeping current and for very little cost. My father purchased a used dual-processor G4 running at 867 MHz with Tiger and he actually said to me that it felt surprisingly fast. Heck, I still run an almost-20-year-old 68K-based Mac with Mac OS 8.1 and it STILL has a lot of use for me!

Now, your PC should be able to dual-boot with GNU/Linux without any problems if you're using XP. I have not attempted this with Vista personally since I don't run Windows on any of my PCs anymore, but I'm sure the information on dual-booting with Vista is out there on the Internet. Plus, considering that Vista has been around for practically 2 years, I would say that most distributions would be able to handle dual-booting with Vista just fine at this point. Nevertheless, do the research to see if this is in fact the case.

I'll be honest, I have tried to do what you're looking to do and I can tell you that it's not a trivial task. I'm sure that installing Gentoo Linux at Stage 1 would probably be easier. So why bother with the headaches of building a Hackintosh? You're better off just running OS X on a genuine Mac so that you can get the seamless experience of what the Mac is all about.

[fryke]

Since enough has been said about the subject, I'm closing this thread. The user has all the required information. We can't say more about anything hackintosh here, your lowendmac-links are useful. Anything else can go into another thread.