G4 Hackintosh Mod - Part 4

G4 Hackintosh Mod - Part 3

Halo Reach

Halo Reach is out tomorrow. I pre-ordered it from Best Buy and will pick it up after work. My friend Prentiss is gonna come over and we'll be fraggin' together. The nephews may join us later but we'll start the campaign in "Heroic" mode first then "Legendary". I'm very excited yet saddened that this will be the last Halo game from Bungie. They've done some wonderful work to feed by addiction and are going to be sorely missed. I hope their future projects are just as exciting and addicting.

The G4 Hackintosh Mod is going on the backburner for awhile but stay tuned while I start the fight.

G4 Hackintosh Mod - Part 2

G4 Hackintosh Mod - Part 2

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G4 Hackintosh Mod

The genesis of this started with the urge to build another hackintosh. I've hacked my MSI Wind and helped my friend, Dustin build his. I watched and gave pointers as he put it together himself. I've built PCs before and Dustin just wanted someone to back him up in case he got stuck. This was his first PC build.



Anyway, I was looking through the "Kakewalk" forum and saw that they had a mATX motherboard that could be hacked. I was intrigued and start to piece one together. I then decided against it because the cost was $100 to $200 less than the price of a new Mac Mini which I wanted for a HTPC. I mentioned this to Dustin who was interested because he had a Mac tower he was thinking of modding. As it so happened, my friend Rich was getting rid of his G4 Graphite Tower and asked the best way to destroy the data on the old hard drive. I grabbed the G4 for Dustin but when I brought it home, it got me thinking about the hack even more.



Needless to say I kept the G4 and Dustin and I are going to do the mod ourselves. It's been done before by a couple of people. I Googled it and found a good Youtube tutorial. The mod isn't too difficult. The main one is drilling some holes for the motherboard standoffs and the cutout the rear panel for the ports.



I'm trying to keep this build affordable. It's not cheap and it's not expensive either. I'm not trying for a cheap hack but one that is reasonable. This isn't going to be a powerhouse machine. I'm going to try to keep it kind of quiet because it may become the home theater DVR and iTunes music server.

I'll be posting updates on my progress so check back later.

I Have The Urge..

I have a new project on the burner that's gonna take some time to build. It's a "Hackintosh" and it's kind of special. I'll update how it's going and where I'm at from time to time. I'm going try video as well but that might be at the end of the project. Hopefully it won't take long but I want to take my time to do it right.