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if you've dived dose given into the world of computer building you might have noticed a common thread and most how-to guides out there on the internet they almost all end showing you how to configure windows after you're done piecing everything together but what if you've grown tired of Cortana the Start menu or lack thereof and that frowny face blue screen of death and you want a different kind of computing experience well you could choose one of a number of free Linux distributions as we discussed in this episode but some people find themselves irresistible drawn to the interface of Mac OS just not to the high price tag Apple says tough luck to you bud but fear not a community has popped up around building hacking Tasha's pcs that run Mac OS on non-apple hardware but how does this process work just throw Mac OS onto a USB Drive boot from it and click install ya know first of all Apple only guarantees compatibility for Mac OS with a very limited number of hardware configurations there's unlike Windows which is supposed to work on any x86 or x64 based system provided it meets the minimum requirements so how in the world then are you supposed to know what will be compatible well though there isn't really a good way to know if the extreme gamer over 9000 motherboard will work with Mac OS outside of just trying it and seeing what happens the hackintosh community has actually compiled lists of components that users have had good luck with on websites like OS X 86 and df/dt all right then so once you've built your system or verified that your existing one is compatible the next step is to get a copy of Mac OS typically this means using an actual Mac to download the latest version through the app store or buying an older version on optical media directly from Apple so you got your grubby little hands on Mac OS now you need to create a bootable USB using some special software yuuna beast is a popular one simply click through the menus and indicate whether you'll be installing mac OS on a newer UEFI capable system or on an older computer and your boot media will be ready but before you shove it into your PC you'll want to tweak your BIOS settings this typically involves disabling features designed for for Wintel machines that Mac OS won't play nicely with such as vtd CFG lock secure boot IO serial port and even USB 3.0 if you're rocking something older like a motherboard with an Intel 5 Series chipset enable X HCI handoff and you are ready to install Mac OS from your USB Drive but after you've done this now you got to make your mac OS target disk bootable as it doesn't happen automatically a popular option is to use a utility called multi beast which will not only make your machine bootable but will attempt to install additional necessary software like drivers note however that you'll probably still need to find Mac drivers for your graphics card on your own and that's it theoretically by this point you're good to go but hold on a minute I've heard that Apple is extremely unhappy with people building hacking Tosh's will I get in trouble well Apple to me well I do hard time in a white-collar minimum-security prison so here's the deal with that downloading Mac OS from the Apple Store is free but the fine print stipulates that you may only install it on a bonafide Mac system so that means that technically even though you downloaded it for free from Apple its software piracy because you are in breach of the end-user License Agreement so apple indeed does strongly frown upon people building and using hackintosh systems but with that said the chances of Apple coming after a single user that just wants to use a hackintosh at home are virtually nil and if they do find out somehow the most they are likely to do is something like ban your machine from the App Store though it should be noted they did sue a company back in 2009 that was marketing and selling hackintosh shoes which could actually be considered a crime under US federal law so the takeaway then is that we're not telling you what you should do we are not your legal advisers but if you are going to dabble in hackintosh inge do it for personal use not to make a quick buck and in any event you are far more likely to run into technical rather than legal issues iMessage is infamously tough to run on a hackintosh and you'll probably find other things small or deal breaking that aren't exactly on par with the authentic Mac experience but there are plenty of resources online to help both newbies and veterans so go check them out and just hope that Steve Jobs isn't watching you from beyond the grave do you run a small business are you a freelancer do you have lots of work to do but you just can't get organized enough to find all the time to do it well FreshBooks is here to help you it's a cloud-based accounting software that's designed for the way that you work it's a simple easy way for people who aren't necessarily numbers people to keep track of their 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