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Guys i an IT consultant whos been working with the Microsoft stack for 20 years, so as youll understand every PC in ma house other than IPAD n IPHONE is windows.

I have a media PC of which i dont really use amd 3500 4 gig ram 2 tb disk,

I fancy popping an apple OS on,

Firstly is it as easy as doing windows, will it work os is apple funny about what hardware it sees ?

And which one should i install, whats it in now Tiger Horse Cow ?


thanks

Ted

You'll struggle with with it being amd , safe to say it won't work.

It's not as easy as just putting a disc in and installing like windows

Hi Ted at first you must find everything about your HW(MB,GPU/GFX etc) if its compatible with any available distro(IAtkos,Idneb and many more),here is link where you are find if its your HW is compatible http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL and sometimes you are here find,which distro will work.
Installing first time Mac os on non Apple toy is funny,but worth try...

You're talking about building a hackintosh and it really isn't as simple as just chucking in the OS cd and booting from it, there is a lot of work involved.

If you do go this route Leopard / Snow Leopard (10.5 and 10.6) would be the OS to go for, Lion (10.7) won't be out until mid / late next year (figure September) so 10.6 should be more than good enough.

Alas it's far simpler going the other way, sticking a windows OS on a Mac, there it really is (if it's XP SP3 or higher and a non server os) a case of sticking in the OS disk and installing. Technically you should have a small OS X partition, simply in case there are firmware updates, they will NOT be exe files, will be mac specific files.

i've had a hackintosh mac pro for 2+ years now and I wish I knew then what I know now.

lots of hair pulling and OSless PC time lol

my 10.6.4 system runs incredibly smoothly and reliably. i am even fooling myself into building another one to save money.

my only advice is to have an up and running OSX environment so you can troubleshoot your failed OSX install in real time. I have a mac mini and macbook pro to fall back on.