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First EPIC Hackintosh Build w/ Win7 & Lion OS!

2012-05-05
hey what's up everybody Alaric Ferris here on the teco tomorrow youtube channel today we're bringing you a full on video and buddy's rockin rolling because we've built a win7 / hackintosh machine you can see that sucker in the background this thing's under thirteen hundred dollars has really good stuff actually the 6870 video card Wolfley go to the parts so basically folks check it out follow along this is a pc that squawks like a mac let's jump in now a lot of you guys out there say that you'd like to have a Mac but you never have the money to invest in the damn thing because we all know that max are super expensive you guys can hear my dog running around he wants a part of this Mac action but no so check this out those guys who are haters well don't hate we built a really nice hackintosh now it's a dual boot system so this is basically a win7 / lion OS computer but the lion is you guys know is Mac so here's our first look and our first delve into building a hackintosh it's under 1,300 bucks let's jump in and take a look at the specs for this thing so let's start this bad boy from the outside and starting off with the Silverstone precision case coming in at eighty dollars then we've got through rosewill now this is there a high power supply it's in turn 50 watts coming in at eighty dollars for the motherboard we've got the gigabyte x58 a dash you d3r for a video card we've got the XFX radeon 6870 the two gigabyte dual fan edition we've also got the polaris 120 heatsink and underneath that we've got the i7 920 processor for our primary drive we have a Kingston 90 gigabyte SSD now v + 200 drive say 23 very very fast we also have triple channel memory these are the kingston hyperx 4 gigabyte modules we have 12 gigabytes of that and lastly but not leastly for just primary storage drive we have the western digital one terabyte black drive now all the parts that we've just listened to you folks these parts come in at under thirteen hundred dollars you might even be able to buy them cheaper you can buy the mac OS action and USB drive for seventy dollars and install it that way it just like purchasing an OS when you purchase one from Microsoft so there you guys have it a complete hackintosh / windows 7 system for under thirteen hundred dollars it's gotten very good scores almost 10,000 in the geek mark now this system comes in between somewhere between a macbook pro and an actual mac pro now Mac Pro's come into the market though at about twenty five hundred dollars for any of the newer machines and this machines running just a little bit slower than that and you see we've built it for under thirteen hundred dollars so you folks out there who was one just play around say damn I wish I had him back to screw room wyeth well hey you've got one the parts are listed we have absolutely no failures everything runs so you guys can't hate because it's not actually a mac it's a pc that well looks like a mac and squawk suck a mac but it's a pc see you guys later herein teka tomorrow I think this dog wants to say bye but he wants to say buddy do you like hackintosh computers yeah I think he does I think buddy the dog likes hackintosh
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