My lovely HackinMac G5

[uberamd]

I'm finally 100% finished with my HackinMac G5 project. I had a broken Power Mac G5 lying around so I decided to embark on the modding journey to see what I could make. I am quite pleased with the way the system runs, and how the internals turned out.

The process was fairly straight forward:

• Gut the entire system
• Cut the back to make room for the motherboard tray (using a dremel)
• Install the motherboard tray and bolt into place
• Cut the top shelf to make room for the motherboard but leave a spot for the DVD drive
• Wire the original front-panel connector to support the power LED, power button, and USB port (big pain in the butt)
• Create a power-supply power cable bridge so I could put the PSU in the front of the case
• Make it as clean as I cared to make it on the inside
• Get the hard drive cage mounted
• Install OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2

The specs on the system are not fantastic as I already had a high-performance desktop and just wanted a working G5 mod:

• GIGABYTE GA-EP43-UD3L LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard
• OCZ Reaper HPC 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 1066 SDRAM
• Intel Core2 Duo E7500 Wolfdale 2.93GHz
• XFX GS250XZDFU GeForce GTS 250 1GB 256-bit DDR3
• Western Digital 250GB HD
• SATA DVD Burner
• Modular Power Supply
• Rosewill CPU Cooler

And now for some pics:

 

[Willis]

I have to admit, not bad.

Always nice to see what people come up with

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Very nice!

This got me thinking...

According to the EULA, you can only install OS X on Apple branded hardware. Since your installing OS X into an Apple computer case, does that make this a legal hackintosh? And if not, where do you draw the line? After all, the inside of my iMac isn't - component wise - any different than the inside of my PC.

 

[uberamd]

Very nice!

This got me thinking...

According to the EULA, you can only install OS X on Apple branded hardware. Since your installing OS X into an Apple computer case, does that make this a legal hackintosh? And if not, where do you draw the line? After all, the inside of my iMac isn't - component wise - any different than the inside of my PC.

As far as I'm concerned this is Apple branded hardware. Side by side with a normal G5 you can't tell them apart. I have 2 working G5's and this hacked one, and they all look identical unless you look from the back.

Steve Jobs would disagree though, I'm sure.

 

[Mackilroy]

Very nice! My hackintosh just has a generic Antec case.

 

[zildjansg]

lovely indeed!

 

[sl1200mk2]

+1 on the good job. I bet it was a lot of fun too!

 

[Zaap]

Very cool!