Hack-intosh

Hello Esteemed Colleagues;

You are all thinking "oh oh, this guy must want something.....why else would he pile it on so thick"

I'm in the early stages of a large Hauptwerk project and I'm leaning in the direction of a Macintosh rather than a PC but I am not thrilled about paying the extra cost a Mac commands over a PC.

I've heard that some PC motherboards are advertised as able to run the newer (newest?) apple OS's. A friend of mine just installed an apple OS on a brand new Dell Netbook making what he calls a Hack-intosh.

I'm thinking this may be a great way to get the stability of a UNIX operating system (Macs run on BSD UNIX, right?) and yet not pay the premium for name brand hardware.

Has anybody tried this yet with Hauptwerk?

Would there be issues with driver compatibility? (written for a Mac but running on a PC that thinks it's a Mac)

Thanks.

Brooke Benfield
Organist, Gethsemane Lutheran Church
Portland, OR USA

1. I believe it is a violation of the Apple license terms to install the Mac OS on anything other than mac hardware.
2. A quality pc installation with the latest drivers and updates is at least as robust as a mac. There are a lot of happy PC-HW users out there, myself included.
3. Macs have some limitations, like the lack multiple touch screen drivers or the strange behaviour about memory paging.

If I were you, I'd go PC today. MAC OS on PC hardware seems to be a lose-lose to me.

I've heard that some PC motherboards are advertised as able to run the newer (newest?) apple OS's. A friend of mine just installed an apple OS on a brand new Dell Netbook making what he calls a Hack-intosh.

Hi Brooke,

It's come up on this board before. The discussion was here: http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4035

I wouldn't attempt it, but that's just me.

Terry

Well, I am quite pleased operating with XP-64 on my Mac Pro.
Used Apple's BootCamp application to install XP-64. Have the Advanced
HW 3.x for PC on that along with Sonar and Pristine Space for convolution
reverb. Sounds just wonderful, very reliable, fail proof etc.

I also have the most recent release of HW64 for Mac on a separate HD using
the most recent Leopard OS. However, almost never load
and operate that way as then I have no access to convolution for
a sample set when I might wish it.

I bought the Mac when it was the only machine with 8 cores and 16 GB
of RAM. Of course would probably not go that way today, as similar specs
are available using the newer PC motherboards. When HW 1 and then 2 came
along, I started with a Tyan motherboard on which I could use dual AMD Opteron
CPUs, but that was during the Summer, 2004. In the Summer 2007 went on
to my present Mac Pro machine, not too long after Martin had done so.

[mdyde]

Hello Brooke,

Just to reiterate my points from the older post on this subject:

http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4035

... versions of OS X hacked to work on PC hardware are in breach of Apple's licence agreement, and thus currently illegal, so not an appropriate topic for this forum - sorry.

I've locked this thread.