mac questions

[Swampthing]

I recently tried doing a hackintosh on a gigabyte ds3 and 8800gtx. While OSX worked hardly any applications did. Aperture for example said my video card didn't meet minimum. Frankly i'm tired of messing with all the incompatibility. I'm considering buying a mac, but jesus, wtf. It's hard as all heck to find a comparison of mac to pc. i mean these macs are ungodly expensive so i'd at least like to know what kind of performance i'm getting.

They have the mac pro on their site, how old are these? Where would i find a current review? The only reviews of mac pros i can find are from 2006. I'm not crazy about the whole imac integrated thing. I thought about a macbook but i hate laptop keyboards.

Any suggestions where i can find some current mac product reviews?


Is there one single configuration on a hackintosh you can run that you won't run into application incompatibilities? I mainly want to use it for photo editing and music creation so aperture and logic. Neither worked on a hackintosh. Aperture not at all and logic was incredibly unstable and alot of features didn't work.

 

[silverpig]

Did you check out Kaido's hackintosh guide? There are plenty of configurations that work, and your listed parts (so far) seem like they would work just fine. Are you sure your video card was set up correctly? It sounds like you didn't install the .kexts for your video card properly and thus you were running in software mode. To check this, click on the Apple logo, then "about this mac" then "more" and then "graphics adapters" or whatever it's called. You want to make sure that CoreImage and QuartzExtreme are enabled.

Mac Pros are nice but are very expensive. A good option for you might be to get a macbook pro and add perhaps an external monitor and usb keyboard/mouse. Of course if you are okay with a C2D processor, then you could also look into a mac mini. It would probably do you just fine if you upgraded the RAM.

 

[sourceninja]

try this link http://tinyurl.com/m997k7

But seriously, almost no one needs a mac pro. I'd buy a macbook pro or a imac. Price wise those are not nearly as overpriced and in my opinion the macbook pro is a better value then most similar speced dells.

 

[Swampthing]

When i installed the hackintosh i used atkios or however it's spelled. I think for the nvidia driver i selected the nvinject, i can't remember and then specifically for the 88xx card. evidently there was more i needed to do? I had gotten a tad frustrated because i had tried ideneb and while it installed and worked i could NOT get the networking working. Kalyway same thing. Atkios was the only one i could get networking going. I think i musta installed OSX like 7 times that day.

 

[Tyranicus]

NVinject worked well for me in the past, but with more recent builds of Leopard, I've found that NVdarwin works better for my 8800 GTS. The same may be true for your GTX.

 

[Zaap]

Sounds exactly like you didn't have the video card setup with Core Image and Quartz Extreme hardware accelerated. Without that, ProApps will not work correctly if they install at all. As others said: read Kaido's guide and set the machine up correctly. Use EFI strings for the graphic card rather than NVinject. If you can, buy the retail disk and do a retail install.

I haven't found a single Mac app that won't run correctly on a Hackintosh that's actually set up correctly- but follow a guide for your motherboard type to do it, or if you use a 'distro' then find out the exact components on the mobo and match them with the driver selection at setup. (Everything BUT the graphic card drivers, do EFI strings post-install). Trying to reinvent the wheel with a Hackintosh is just asking for trouble.