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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (907)5/22/2012 5:04:50 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian   of 1515
 
Great deals on hackintoshes these days, on Craigslist, I find.

What's really odd is that I seldom see anything on Craigslist around here when searching for the term "hackintosh." I'm not sure why that is. I live near Seattle, so there are plenty of computers for sale in this area.

I briefly considered buying a Hack before I came to my senses and purchased my current iMac. :-)

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (908)5/22/2012 5:15:58 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 1515
 
I briefly considered buying a Hack before I came to my senses and purchased my current iMac. :-)
I'm sorry to read that. My againg $350 hack gleefully runs circles around the cheapest refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5.

You could have done better for the money, methinks. ;-)

Anyway, soon as that Lion on a stick comes tomorrow, my beast is going to become a dual booter. Its 750GB drive will remain Snow Leopard and its 1T drive will become Lion.

Gonna be fun! :-)))

P.S. What I really love about the hack-in-a-box is being able to replace everything, at the drop of a nickel. Motherboard, graphics card, RAM, HD, ports, whatever. Minimum cost, maximum bang/buck, each time around.

Can't beat modular bang/buck wise, in my book, when it comes to desktops. Mac and PC.

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (909)5/22/2012 5:32:46 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian   of 1515
 
I'm sorry to read that.

Yeah, I figured you would be. :-)

I just really wanted the no muss, no fuss operation and to support the mothership. The lack of availability of local Hacks on Craigslist made my decision easier, but if it weren't possible to install Windows on my iMac then I most certainly would have gone with a Hackintosh.

Let us know how it goes with the upgrade to Lion.

Oh, are you able to download apps from the Mac App Store on the Hack? Was trying to buy Lion a special case, or does it prevent you from DL'ing anything from there?

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (910)5/22/2012 5:36:50 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 1515
 
Oh, are you able to download apps from the Mac App Store on the Hack? Was trying to buy Lion a special case, or does it prevent you from DL'ing anything from there?
As far as Apple is concerned, my hacks are Macs, in every way except Software Update. Instead of just letting the hack Software Update automatically, I have to go to Apple.com, download each published update manually, then install it. Doing it automatically bricks my hacks. Not a huge pain. Matter of a few extra clicks. Well worth the hundreds of $ saved.

And, I was trying to download the Lion via my Apple Care boosted MacBook Pro. That is why I got all steamed up. I can understand a block for a hack, but not for a genuine, paid up Apple fanboi MacBook Pro user since the 512Ke came out, like myself.

Still pisses me off. Grrr. Speaking of which, Apple's Lee has not gotten back to me today. Wonder why. ;-)

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (910)5/22/2012 5:52:36 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 1515
 
BTW, the latest hack info is here: tonymacx86

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (909)5/22/2012 8:51:42 PM
From: Cogito   of 1515
 
My againg $350 hack gleefully runs circles around the cheapest refurbished iMac 21.5-inch 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5.
A Core 2 Duo runs faster than a Quad-core i5? I don't believe that.

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To: Cogito who wrote (913)5/22/2012 9:14:20 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 1515
 
8GB of RAM. No complaints, at this end. Plus 8 USB ports. Yummy, :-)

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From: Lahcim Leinad5/23/2012 4:32:23 PM
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Good GOD they overpackaged that Lion on a stick.

Had to trash like Earth shattering carp, to get to that tiny stick. With scissors. Go FU Apple about that!

Coming right on up, my hackintosh Lion story about that.

Grab a beer or something in the meantime, I'm in no rush...

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (910)5/24/2012 12:22:13 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad   of 1515
 
Let us know how it goes with the upgrade to Lion.
Can't say that it was painless. Had some serious problems in the bios confuguration part. Could not get the keyboard to work, in the most basic guts of bios. Had to sleep on it and google, extensively, before I figured out what the problem was: operator error. Anyway, as I type on my Dell Mini 9 hack, Lion is happily installing on the second hard drive of my Mac Pro wannabe hack. I'm keeping my primary drive a Snow Leopard one. Best of both worlds! :)

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (910)5/24/2012 12:41:32 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad2 Recommendations   of 1515
 
Typing this via Lion on the hackintosh. Super major bonus which I did not expect, even in my dreams: I thought I'd have to reformat the second drive and start from scratch but no, Lion installed on top of my Snow Leopard backup disk, with all my apps and stuff there completely intact!

Identical stuff on both drives, just the OS X is different on each. Boot at will. :-)

WOOHOO! :-)))

I really liked this hackintosh, up to today. Now I LOVE IT!!!! :-)

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