PC Perspective Podcast #233 - 01/03/2013
Join us this week as we talk about the ThinkPad Twist, Intel's rumored TV service, Frame Latency testing and more!
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Podcast #232 - Our picks for Best Products of 2012!
PC Perspective Podcast #232 - 12/27/2012
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Podcast #231 - Intel NUC, AMD 8000M GPUs, Building a Hackintosh and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #231 - 12/20/2012
Join us this week as we talk about the Intel NUC, AMD 8000M GPUs, Building a Hackintosh and more!
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Building a Hackintosh Computer - Step by Step Guide and Hardware Suggestions
Since the Apple transition to Intel processors and mostly off-the-shelf PC hardware in 2006, people have been attempting to run OS X on home built computers originally destined for Windows. While running a different operating system on similar hardware...
Conclusion
Before writing up this guide, I was still sour from my last attempt at building a Hackintosh. While it was only a few years ago that I tried with a P55 based motherboard, the process was much more difficult and I never really quite got things...
Performance Testing
That's all there is to it. Now that we have our Hackintosh up and running, we wanted to test the performance of our components to make sure there are no problems and everything is working as expected.
Cinebench 11.5, the Cinema4D-based...
Configuring OS X
Congratulations! You have now installed OS X on your PC! Unfortunately, we aren’t quite done yet. We now have to install a bootloader to the actual boot drive where you installed OS X, and configure the operating system to...
Installing OS X
Now that UEFI is prepped and ready we can actually begin the OS X install.
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The first step of this is to insert our USB drive and boot from it. On Gigabyte boards, selecting a boot...
Optimizing the System
Before we boot the installer drive and begin installing OS X we need to make some changes to the 3D BIOS on our Gigabyte board. First, we updated the UEFI to the latest version available (F12e at the time of writing) through the Gigabyte Q-Flash utility...
Preparing the Installer
A Catch-22 of sorts, the simplest way to prepare the OS X Mountain Lion installer for your Hackintosh is by using another Mac. The only way to legally pay for and download Mountain Lion is through the Mac App store, but if you can get the installer files...