I've been running a hackintosh for almost a year now, but my computer is optimized for OS X, with Mavericks it takes about an hour to have everything up and running with the latest updates. That's all thanks to OS X's features, and continuous updating of the installation USB stick.
Do you dual boot with Windows and do you have am on board wifi kext that doesnt break drivers?
No, I had to replace my wi-fi card with a compatible one on my laptop to get wi-fi to work. There's a sheet with all the compatible ones which can be easily found by looking around in tonymacx86. The wi-fi cards themselves are inexpensive and quite effective, however, so it's worth looking at the compatible ones or jury-rig a desktop one out of spare materials using a compatible one for mobile.The Windows drive is isolated, but I only use it rarely (last time was two weeks ago) just to play games such as Skyrim which never had a port to Linux or OSX. Everything else, even my daily work is done on OS X. Where my laptop and desktop are both hackintoshes.Quote from: Latsu on December 27, 2014, 06:11:43 PMDo you dual boot with Windows and do you have am on board wifi kext that doesnt break drivers?
I think I may end up getting a USB wifi dongle like they stated to do in all the guides but I found a kext that enabled my on board wifi. I couldn't use OSX as my main OS because of all the issues I have run into using an Asus z87 motherboard. I need to compile a list of all the kexts I installed via multi beast and a couple of other things. Are you able to use Time Machine as an effective backup of the OS or does it only backup document files?
Time Machine is effective as a OS backup to an extent. If you are dealing with anything within the same version up to Mavericks then it's easy to restore or load your settings on other macs or hackintoshes. I used that to get my settings from the laptop on the fly. (Though you may want to avoid getting the /Extra directory)I'd suggest to use a separate backup HDD for Time Machine (as for any kind of backup) and to actually look into putting a proper wi-fi card in your desktop machine. It's worth the time and cost (which is more or less the same as buying a wifi dongle) especially due to the performance differences.Quote from: Latsu on December 27, 2014, 06:32:39 PMI think I may end up getting a USB wifi dongle like they stated to do in all the guides but I found a kext that enabled my on board wifi. I couldn't use OSX as my main OS because of all the issues I have run into using an Asus z87 motherboard. I need to compile a list of all the kexts I installed via multi beast and a couple of other things. Are you able to use Time Machine as an effective backup of the OS or does it only backup document files?
Unfortunately I cannot get a PCI-E based wifi card because of my motherboard because of it being an ITX motherboard and the PCI-E slot already has my GTX770 in it. I'll have to figure out time machine and find an external I can use. I have a time machine backup of my Macbook and I'm tempted to use the same drive but use a different partition but then again I could run into more issues trying to do that. It was a fun project to take upon myself to do but I don't see it becoming my main driving OS for my desktop until I can get it to a sweet spot. I really wish there was better support for onboard Wifi cards. I'm going to fiddle with it and try to remove the Wifi kext I injected to see if that solves my Windows 7 Driver issue. It sucks because there is no Ethernet access in my house and all of our network is connected via wifi.Also I am using Mavericks on the Hackintosh currently.
i got windows 8.1, it's actually good. i like it
Quote from: goootsby on December 27, 2014, 06:07:08 PMi got windows 8.1, it's actually good. i like it
Just Hackintosh my desktop
