I built a very similar system using the "confirmed working" parts listed in the buyer's guide at http://tonymacx86.com
To those poo-pooing the hackintosh, my experience was quite different this time around from when I had OS X running on a netbook a few years back.
I already had a monitor, PSU, video card and ram, so the money investment for me was fairly small when compared to builing a system from scratch.
It took one evening to put everything together and install the OS, I followed the instructions there and have done several system updates without new problems coming up. I had to mess around a bit with kernel extensions to get my Radeon card put out 2560x1440 properly, but my problems were solved in under an hour. I've had strange problems connecting to my wireless printer, but I solved them by plugging it in and forgetting about it.
I've used it as a development machine w/ xcode and have not had any problems there.
All that said, I would NEVER use this as my only mac. I'm careful about keeping work backed up and off the machine in the event that something strange comes up, so there is that added overhead, but for any data/files you care about this should be done anyway.
To those poo-pooing the hackintosh, my experience was quite different this time around from when I had OS X running on a netbook a few years back.
I already had a monitor, PSU, video card and ram, so the money investment for me was fairly small when compared to builing a system from scratch.
It took one evening to put everything together and install the OS, I followed the instructions there and have done several system updates without new problems coming up. I had to mess around a bit with kernel extensions to get my Radeon card put out 2560x1440 properly, but my problems were solved in under an hour. I've had strange problems connecting to my wireless printer, but I solved them by plugging it in and forgetting about it.
I've used it as a development machine w/ xcode and have not had any problems there.
All that said, I would NEVER use this as my only mac. I'm careful about keeping work backed up and off the machine in the event that something strange comes up, so there is that added overhead, but for any data/files you care about this should be done anyway.