Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th Jun 2009 10:10 UTC
And we have another Ask OSNews item! This one has to do with the recent article we ran on how I built my own Macintosh and installed a vanilla, unaltered copy of Mac OS X on it using the boot-132 method. One of our readers asked us: what is the best hardware to build a Mac out of?
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I feel like I should reiterate what he just said here. The Asus P5* series of motherboards have astounding, if not perfect support in OS X, rivaled only by a few Gigabyte boards. Today I received an Asus P5K in the mail and am writing this while waiting for OS X to finish installing.
It's important to have a compatible motherboard because it means you can install OS X, unmodified, and update straight from Apple without worrying (by using a bootloader and small, hidden partition to cleanly isolate all the hacked kexts - aka "boot132"). It's such a clean hack that I could image a real mac's volume and boot from it without any extra work.
Hopefully, if all goes well today, I will have an identical setup to parent's.