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I may have to agree with that. I was looking at an 04-06 BMW 3 series, but couldn't pass up a good deal on that s2k. The S2k is a lot of fun, I love it, but it's def. more of a 2nd car (although I use it as a daily). The BMW is an amazing car, and I'll probably get it next year as my daily and keep the s2k for weekend/night rides
G4 iBook (just installed 10.5.8) 1.7Ghz/1.2GB Not really a 'purchace' but given to me by friend whose systems I always fix after she just upgraded to a new Macbook. (I end up with more hardware that way!) Not that I even remotely in any possible way have any use for yet another laptop, but I'm not one to shoo a gift horse.
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Building a Hackintosh
So after checking eBay / CL + others for a week or so looking for a more powerful computer than my 1.66CD Mac Mini that has been acting as a Leopard server for the last few months I have decided to go ahead and piece together a Hackintosh that is far more powerful that any current Mac except for the Mac Pro, and I did it at less than $600 shipped, so here's what I got:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB)
XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Xigmatek MIDGARD-W Black
Thermaltake TR2 430W
LOGISYS Computer LDKMTRD1
LG DVD Burner Black
Arctic Silver 5
Firewire PCI Express Card
I have my own harddrive that I plan on using so need buying one, I have no doubt that this will be a VERY capable computer, all of this stuff was bought retail, no used / oem stuff, most of it having at least a 3 year warranty on it, so basically each component has free AppleCare
Plus I miss building computers, the one thing about Macs is you have no freedom to build your own stuff, I got excited being able to put in a new graphics card and harddrives in my Mac Pro!
So after checking eBay / CL + others for a week or so looking for a more powerful computer than my 1.66CD Mac Mini that has been acting as a Leopard server for the last few months I have decided to go ahead and piece together a Hackintosh that is far more powerful that any current Mac except for the Mac Pro, and I did it at less than $600 shipped, so here's what I got:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
GIGABYTE GA-G31M-ES2L
OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB)
XFX HD-487A-ZHFC Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Xigmatek MIDGARD-W Black
Thermaltake TR2 430W
LOGISYS Computer LDKMTRD1
LG DVD Burner Black
Arctic Silver 5
Firewire PCI Express Card
I have my own harddrive that I plan on using so need buying one, I have no doubt that this will be a VERY capable computer, all of this stuff was bought retail, no used / oem stuff, most of it having at least a 3 year warranty on it, so basically each component has free AppleCare
Plus I miss building computers, the one thing about Macs is you have no freedom to build your own stuff, I got excited being able to put in a new graphics card and harddrives in my Mac Pro!
Building computers is fun, but the headache caused by Hackintoshing isn't worth it to me. I miss building systems too, but I just can't get myself to build another system.
That's a picture of a C2D, but you said you got a C2Q.
Anyways, that is a very nice build. I personally, hate the motherboard (One PCI slot fried on me, and the CPU Fan slot fried on me, I had to plug in the fan on a different, regular fan slot, and change my wireless card to the other one).
Also, is it going to be wireless, I don't think you got a wireless card...
Anyways, that is a very nice build. I personally, hate the motherboard (One PCI slot fried on me, and the CPU Fan slot fried on me, I had to plug in the fan on a different, regular fan slot, and change my wireless card to the other one).
Also, is it going to be wireless, I don't think you got a wireless card...
Not really, this build is 99% supported, you install from the original OS X disks. And software update etc.
No it's going to be a home server, so it with be wired via ethernet all the time.
And I know, that is the box for it i guess.
A Wreck on bigs wheat at Potbelly and a bag of Zapps Sour Cream and Creole Onion chips I'm full now
I'm full now 
I recently bought four Q8300's and related hardware. Of course they weren't mine, they're currently computing away for four clients. (Yup, the box says Quad
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And yeah, your build works great and is bone-easy to set up. Ironically, there are probably just as many 'Mac users' with that set of hardware worldwide, as owners of many models of actual Macs. Even that one bogus company that I hate to mention the name of, uses that set of hardware as their main product.
I recently bought four Q8300's and related hardware. Of course they weren't mine, they're currently computing away for four clients. (Yup, the box says Quad
And yeah, your build works great and is bone-easy to set up. Ironically, there are probably just as many 'Mac users' with that set of hardware worldwide, as owners of many models of actual Macs. Even that one bogus company that I hate to mention the name of, uses that set of hardware as their main product.
Thanks for the image, EVERY google image has it as a Duo, I don't know, who cares.
I've built lots of computers, then I switched to Mac, and haven't built one since, and I got fed up with the weak offerings of Apple, don't get me wrong, I LOVE my Mac and if there were a comparable machine offered by Apple I would have bought it no problem, but I needed something that could take over running OS X Server, 24/7 as a File/Media/VPN/Web/Torrent server, plus taking over some of the video conversion duties that my Mac Pro has. I needed it to be able to be expandable, stable, and fast. Unfortunately without buying another Mac Pro it isn't possible.
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