Sorry Wayne I did not intentionally mean to initiate a hackintosh discussion. I was just trying to draw a comparison to installing OS X on unsupported machines and the ease I experienced in doing do on a non-apple computer compared to an actual apple mac.
Again to those who own unsupported Mac Pro's, I cannot stress enough in suggesting the use of an alternative method found easily when googling "10.8 Mac Pro 1,1". Simply put, a successful install using this method is full proof and will result in EVERYTHING working (i.e. repair permissions, the ability to install apple system updates and for that matter any other application including Little Snitch, iMessage, FaceTime. iCloud just as you would normally, full native 64 bit mode available at your disposal etc.) The ONLY app that I have found that does not work using this method is the Expansion Slot Utility app. That however should be expected as the whole premise of running 10.8 on unsupported Macs is replacing Apple's EFI which will not allow it with a given boot loader EFI that will. The Expansion Slot Utility will only work with Apple's EFI and therefore once replaced with Chameleons (or Clover etc) EFI it ceases to operate.
The beauty of the unsupported Mac Pro in the case of running 10.8 is that with an simple Video Card upgrade (an Apple ATI HD 5770 does quite nicely) your good as gold as they say. Why is this the case ? Simply because within 10.8 , there exist 64 bit kext's that will fully support OS X 10.8 and the video card upgrade respectively. This same "beauty" of the Mac Pro is truly the absolute determent to all other unsupported Macs save those whose computers possess the X3100 video card as by sheer accident, apple includes a 64 bit kext in OS X 10.8 to support it.
My hack experiment with an unsupported Intel iMac 17" 2.0 GHz X1600 graphics with OS X 10.8.3 runs everything (almost) perfectly: iSight/Facetime, iCloud, repair permissions, boots without issue, sleeps, installed the 10.8.3 Combo update from the App Store without any issues whatsoever etc. The only issue of course is graphics. I in fact found a thread that was near a year old where Wayne and MLforAll stumbled upon the exact same dilemma and I would bet this rather large hurdle remains as the primary challenge as they attempt to move the project forward. One as to wonder though if that indeed the only answer is mixing, patching and intertwining 32 bit into 64 bit if any real measure of stability can ever be possibly achieved. Though as I have only been at this (trying to hack the iMac) literally five or six days I admittedly would not be the one to address this question to.
Again to those who own unsupported Mac Pro's, I cannot stress enough in suggesting the use of an alternative method found easily when googling "10.8 Mac Pro 1,1". Simply put, a successful install using this method is full proof and will result in EVERYTHING working (i.e. repair permissions, the ability to install apple system updates and for that matter any other application including Little Snitch, iMessage, FaceTime. iCloud just as you would normally, full native 64 bit mode available at your disposal etc.) The ONLY app that I have found that does not work using this method is the Expansion Slot Utility app. That however should be expected as the whole premise of running 10.8 on unsupported Macs is replacing Apple's EFI which will not allow it with a given boot loader EFI that will. The Expansion Slot Utility will only work with Apple's EFI and therefore once replaced with Chameleons (or Clover etc) EFI it ceases to operate.
The beauty of the unsupported Mac Pro in the case of running 10.8 is that with an simple Video Card upgrade (an Apple ATI HD 5770 does quite nicely) your good as gold as they say. Why is this the case ? Simply because within 10.8 , there exist 64 bit kext's that will fully support OS X 10.8 and the video card upgrade respectively. This same "beauty" of the Mac Pro is truly the absolute determent to all other unsupported Macs save those whose computers possess the X3100 video card as by sheer accident, apple includes a 64 bit kext in OS X 10.8 to support it.
My hack experiment with an unsupported Intel iMac 17" 2.0 GHz X1600 graphics with OS X 10.8.3 runs everything (almost) perfectly: iSight/Facetime, iCloud, repair permissions, boots without issue, sleeps, installed the 10.8.3 Combo update from the App Store without any issues whatsoever etc. The only issue of course is graphics. I in fact found a thread that was near a year old where Wayne and MLforAll stumbled upon the exact same dilemma and I would bet this rather large hurdle remains as the primary challenge as they attempt to move the project forward. One as to wonder though if that indeed the only answer is mixing, patching and intertwining 32 bit into 64 bit if any real measure of stability can ever be possibly achieved. Though as I have only been at this (trying to hack the iMac) literally five or six days I admittedly would not be the one to address this question to.
