right on bro!

Over the weekend, I built a desktop computer out of regular PC parts that runs OS X.  It’s sort of a $900 equivalent to a $3,300 Mac Pro, except slightly less powerful.  It’s way faster than my MacBook.

For the technically curious, it’s a Q6600 quad-core machine with 4GB of RAM.  There is a pair of 750GB drives in it, one for data and one for Time Machine (they are respectively named Crockett and Tubbs).  Everything seems to work well, except for the Firewire card, which seems to have issues with my external audio interface, and intermittent sync issues with the Apple wireless keyboard.  I think these are pretty easily fixed, so I’m pretty confident this will be my main workstation now.

Some people have been reverse-engineering OS X to run on non-Apple hardware for awhile now, so it wasn’t any more difficult than building a regular desktop computer and installing Windows.   In particular, I used this guide for purchasing parts and setting everything up.

Yup, there is nothing else to do out here in Vegas.