The following was posted to an internal Mac users’ mailing list at work. Since it doesn’t mention any company business, I thought it was interesting enough to post here:
Figured I would let people know I was able to get a rather nice
hackintosh up and running w/out any sort of modified OS install software
using the EFi-X “dongle”. I build I quad core with 8 GB of RAM with a
Gigabyte motherboard for about 1/3 the cost of equivalent Apple hardware
(even better if you assume the monitor I bought is comparable to the
apple 23 inch – likely it’s not the same quality). After 4 days of
running it still seems stable. I’ve been successful in updating all the
OS and software patches for my legally owned copies of apple software
(yah family license!) with no problems what so ever. Basically you plug
a usb dongle directly into the usb pins on the mother board and use it
as a boot loader that mimics the EFI code from the Apple bios. Pop in
your normal install disk and away things go. About time I replaced my
2k1 Sunflower Imac! If anyone else wants to hear more about it shoot me
a question.