WEBVTT - What's a hackintosh? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:08.920 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technologies with 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:16.120 tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. You've heard 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.720 the rumors before, perhaps and whispers written between the lines 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:24.759 of the textbooks. Conspiracies, paranormal events, all those things that 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.760 disappear from the official explanations. Tune in and learn more 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.560 of the stuff they don't want you to know in 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:43.120 this video podcast from how stuff works dot com. Hello there, everybody, 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.839 and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Palette, 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.440 and I'm the tech editor here at how stuff works 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:53.040 dot com. And apparently I speak halting Lee sitting across 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.360 from me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Hey, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:03.240 they're all you hepcats a sight. Yeah yeah, I'm not 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.160 sure where they came from. We had a big philosophical 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.800 discussion just a minute ago. Of course, this episode may 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.319 publish before that one, so we won't go into any detail. Um, 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.800 Before we get started, I wanted to remind you remember 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:18.200 we were talking earlier about pumpkin destruction. Oh yes, yes, right, 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.480 the Science Channels showing the road to Punkin, Chunkin and 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.280 Punkin chunkin on Thanksgiving night. Yeah, that's a November twenty 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.840 six here in the United States on Science Channel. Yeah, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.480 starts at eight. Uh. Then there's another one at nine, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.200 So those are the two shows. Um, you get to 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.120 see these guys who build these amazing machines designed to 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:39.160 shoot pumpkins a very far away before they explode. Yes, yes, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.800 it's it's lovely. I've actually watched shows like this in 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.560 the past, and it's it's a lot of fun to 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:47.720 watch those those guys shoot a uh an object that 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.480 probably shouldn't be fired from a cannon and watch it 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.800 burst on the ground. It's it's what you might call gorgeous. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.240 So what are we gonna talk about today? While it 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.920 all boils down to a message I received in listen 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:08.400 or mail. Now, this listener mail came from Mark from Phoenix, Arizona, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.960 and Mark wrote an incredibly long and wonderful listener listener 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.360 mail to us. But it's so long and it covers 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.800 so much ground that I tried to cut it back 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.680 a little bit because it's just it's too unwieldy to 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.399 start off an episode. So here's here's what's left. Greetings, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:26.639 Chris and Jonathan, I want to tell you how much 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.760 I enjoy listening to your podcast, as well as comment 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:35.040 on several specific items. Excerpt your episode on Apple clones 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.520 lacked a description of resources on the web, both for 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.240 sale and open source, that are available to convert a 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.000 PC into a hack intosh. Never tried this myself yet, 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.880 but I also have read several articles claiming success using 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.520 OS ten as a virtual machine when parallels Desktop and 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.960 V and fusion wear. But your mileage is sure to vary. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.120 As with any type of non authorized, undefined use of 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.320 any hardware, software, or firmware. You put them in all caps. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.440 I thin make it special. Another definition of firmware you 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.880 can consider is any code that begins execution on the 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.520 system prior to the main operating system becoming active. Take 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.639 it or leave it, but don't deny it. Also sounds 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.240 pretty good. Once again, I love your podcasts and feel 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.320 at times that you two have produced some of them 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.800 just for me. To me, that's a sign of true 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.320 technology evangelists. Please don't stop doing what you do until 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.880 you at least talk about jail breaking and why that 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:30.519 could drive you crazy or worse. Sincerely, Mark from Phoenix, Arizona. 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.040 So this isn't the jail breaking episode. This is a 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.080 long distance dedication. Yes, this one goes out to Mark 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:43.800 Mark wherever you are, probably Phoenix, Arizona. This one specifically 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.960 for you. Um so we wanted to talk about Hackintosh 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.240 is now like Mark said ages back back in April, 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.880 in fact, I think, um, we had an episode called 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.760 Apple Clones. We're kind of talking about these computers that 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.800 were being made by a company called sy Star. Still 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.880 are actually and still buy them. Um and the company 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.200 what size Star was doing that was so unique was 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.440 it was selling uh hardware, PC hardware that was running 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:15.119 the Mac os ten operating system. Now, this is unusual 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.040 because Apple likes their Mac os ten operating system to 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.480 run on Apple computers and only Apple computers. That's right. 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.080 Anything otherwise is a violation of the end user license 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:32.400 agreement or yeah, now you lash. Laws by the way, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.839 are not law yet, so um so, yeah, you you 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.320 are violating a license agreement if you try to install 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:45.440 an operating system or really when whenever you're doing anything 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.080 that violates a license agreement, you are not technically breaking 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.479 the law in the United States. Um, yet we have 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.360 to say yet change, Yes, there have been so now 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.760 in this case, the whole reason behind it is that 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:04.080 Apple they like to build a product from the ground 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:09.200 up and control every aspect of that product possible, right, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:13.680 I mean everything. Yeah, So they're very, very concerned about 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.559 the whole user experience. And of course they don't build 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.839 every piece of it, but they choose what processor goes 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.440 in there, and they choose what video card goes the exactly. Yeah. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:28.239 So when you're talking about that, then you you realize 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.240 PCs are totally different PCs. Two PCs that are essentially 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.640 the same amount of like they have the same specs 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.600 in general, could have completely different parts to them, completely 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.760 different components from different manufacturers, and they could look totally different. 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.480 You know, one PC may look and completely different from 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.080 another PC that has essentially the same specs. Apple, They're 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:56.040 going to be uniform. They're beautiful, they're efficient machines. Um, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.760 they do what what they were designed to do very well. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.000 Uh But again there unless if you don't like that style, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.920 you're out of luck, because that's all there is. Yeah. Yeah, Well, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.480 and and I would like to get into a little 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.520 bit of the definition on hacking because uh, you know, 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:18.200 the word hacker sort of carries with it a negative connotation. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.680 I mean, people think of hackers as people who break 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:26.680 into mainframe computers and steal social security numbers or yeah, yeah, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.400 global thermonuclear war, that kind of thing. Shall we play 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.480 a game? But you know, there are other people who 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.279 see hacking as something different. I mean, the basically the 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:41.640 whole uh O'Reilly community would see it as people who 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.320 like to take things apart and mess with it and 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.960 you can do things for Yeah, I see how it works, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.360 Maybe improve upon it, uh you know, maybe share that 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.240 information with other people and and and try something new. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.440 You know, yeah, you might. You might think, hey, I've 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.360 got this device that does this one thing really well. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.240 I wish it could also do this other thing. And 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.000 then you think, hey, wait, if I take it apart 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.120 and look and see how it works, I might be 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.760 able to make it do this other thing. And then 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.320 you build it back and you you you add in 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.560 new functionality that is hacking. It can be. It doesn't 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.480 have to be a computer, doesn't have to be a program, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.520 doesn't have to be software. It can be anything really 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.560 and um, a lot of the early hackers, that's what 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.240 they were doing. They were taking software and saying, you know, 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.800 the software is great, but I could really use a 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.600 little more functionality. I need a couple of features that 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.960 aren't found in this I'll just build in some lines 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.360 of code added into this, uh, this program, and it 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.600 will suddenly do the things I needed to do. May 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.840 not look pretty, it may not be uh, it may 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:45.120 not be elegant. So you might be a code monkey 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:51.600 and uh your code is not functional or elegant. Um. Yeah, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.480 I love Jonathan Colton. Um if you're listening to Jonathan Yeah, 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.760 big fans, Um, I'll be seeing you in Atlanta in January. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.360 So anyway, the the whole, the whole idea here is that, Yeah, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.880 these guys are not They're not they don't have any 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:11.640 like ulterior motives. They're not trying to um bring down 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.440 the system or anything like that. They're curious to know 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.800 how something works. They may want to improve upon it, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:18.240 and they may want to use it in a way 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.800 that the person who created it had not either thought 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.280 of or intended. Yeah, and a lot of people in 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.560 the hacker community who take uh shall we say, umbrage 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.800 at the use of the word hacker to describe you know, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.800 these uh folks who are up to know God like 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.559 prefer that we use the word cracker for those who 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.880 are trying to break in, uh to you know, the 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.520 entire country of Moldova and trash their water system or whatever. 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.840 We have some bad news for you guys, though. The 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.959 AP style book says no way, everybody's a hacker. Yeah, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.480 so sorry, we have to follow a P style book rules. 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.400 That's that's our style kinds. So so for us now 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.760 from now on, a hacker as a hacker as a hacker. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.680 But that's the thing is there there everybody who's a 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.480 hacker is hacking, whether they're using it for good or 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.520 for evil. Oh you know, it's just like Wizard of Oz, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.199 Are you a good witch? Are you a bad witch? Sandwich? 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.680 So let's go on to talking specifically about the Hackintosh, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.440 now that we've talked all around the hacker thing. Yeah, well, 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.200 I just wanted to clarify that because, uh, you know, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.280 you might associate this with doing something illegal and it's not. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.600 It's sort of depends on how you go about it. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.360 And there's different shades of gray from the light grade 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:32.240 to the very very very dark. It's on the fringe, definitely, definitely. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.840 Now let me ask you this question, why would someone 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.760 want to build a hackintosh. You know, I can give 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.520 you a specific example of why someone would want to 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.240 build a hackintosh. Hit me baby one more time. Um, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:52.200 Steve Jobs does not believe the Apple can affordably produce 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.320 a netbook. Oh so it might, it might behoo have 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.800 someone to prove Steve Jobs wrong by taking a net 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.920 stripping it of its operating system and installing OS ten 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.200 and then you would have a very small, very portable, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.920 very affordable machine running the Mac operating system. Yes, and 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.960 that's and that's more often than not in the past 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.560 probably year. That's the way I've seen Macintosh is come 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.200 about is because somebody wants a very affordable netbook that 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:26.120 runs ostend and uh Apple. For the record, I still 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.360 have a twelve inch power book, which is an older 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.079 power pc uh Macintosh, and I still get comments like wow, 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.840 that's a really small mac and like, yeah it is. Well, 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.960 they don't make it anymore. They don't make it twelve inch, right, Um, 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.199 so that's another closest you can get. And it was 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:44.640 actually never really affordable. It depends on how you define. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:46.760 All right, well, let me let me also go ahead 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.120 and get this out of the way, because I don't 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.480 want tons of people writing me. Um. When we talk 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.840 about price points, and people often will say that the 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.360 Mac computers are more expensive than PC computers. Okay, well 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.480 in general, yeah, that's true. You look at the Mac 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.760 computers have a specific range and it's essentially if take 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.880 the Mac Mini out of the equation, right, so you're 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:08.480 just looking at the laptops to desktops. You're looking at 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.920 a thousand to around two thousand dollars or your for 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.400 most of your base computers. Right, So that's you know, 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.920 that's fairly expensive. You don't find anything below a thousand 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:21.600 dollars besides the Mac Mini, which is just the really 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.679 just the basic basic part of a computer, and you 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.960 have to buy everything else around it anyway. Um, Whereas 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.199 with a PC you can look at PCs and like, hey, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.840 look this store is running a thing where I can 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.160 get this PC for four dred bucks. What's the difference? 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:37.640 The differences in performance? MAX? The reason why MAX are 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.200 so expensive. There are a couple of different reasons. One is, yes, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.079 you are paying the Apple tax. Yes, that Apple computers 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:48.920 are more expensive than a PC that runs the same 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.600 kind of like the same powerful, same amount of power. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.160 I guess you could say, and it's hard to say, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.760 Like the processor is is similar, the amount of storage 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.319 space is similar, the amount of RAM is similar. If 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:01.800 you if you if you look at the guts of 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.520 the machine, the stuff that's not you take everything outside 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.680 the case, and you get a similar processor and a 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.439 similar hard drive, and a similar graphics processor and sound card. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.120 You're you're going i mean, the components themselves, the stuff 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.240 that's inside the box will be It'll be a little cheaper, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.840 but not not as much as what a lot of 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.600 people think. Really, I mean, if you get the quality 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.080 of of um components that Apple uses in their their 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.319 their machines, it's really you're not really going to save 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:34.880 a ton of money by building the equivalent PC version. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.600 You will save some, but not not as much as 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.040 what a lot of I think a lot of people 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.720 just imationed, like, oh, there's like a five mark up 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:45.240 immediately on Apple products. That's just simply not true. No, 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.839 not not not that way. But there is Apple can 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.160 demand a you know, a little bit more cashe and 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.160 they can they can charge a little bit more for 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:59.439 their products, but it's not you know, completely unwarranted. They 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.440 generally do get a little bit better components. But let 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.680 the you know, the Dells and the hps of the 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:08.640 world that use those same components are cheaper, but not 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.560 as cheap as a an E machine you know what 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.640 you might get at four at at you know, your local, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.360 but it's also running a less powerful process that doesn't 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.720 have as much memory, doesn't have as much hard drive space, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.440 which is the thing about netbooks in general. They are 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.080 you know, they use less powerful processors. And so really 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.640 a Hacintosh is going to be attractive to someone who 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.760 wants a computer running the Macintosh operating system. They do 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.400 not need it to be as powerful as Apple has 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.880 made their computers, not in general. So well, let's well, 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:41.560 let's just say like I want to Let's say I 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.840 want to run stuff on the mac os, but I 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.640 don't really have it in my budget to buy the 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.760 cheapest of the the imax. Let's say, okay, I want 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.640 a desktop computer, and you don't want a Mac minie. 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.360 I don't want a macmni. Okay, let's say that I 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.040 don't want to Mac Mini, which is around what six 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.880 seven hulls. I think, so honestly, haven't I will look 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.600 to look while I talk, So, uh, I don't I 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.080 can't afford the lowest level iMac. Let's say, and I want, um, 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.040 I want a desktop computer. It does not have to 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.160 be as powerful as the iMac, but I want it 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.760 running the operating system. I don't have any options besides 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:21.600 the Mac Mini, which is there you go, That's what 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.320 I thought it was. But um, I wasn't. It wasn't 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:29.880 entirely so uh but keeping that in mind, then I 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.040 would you know, I'm going out and buying like a 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.120 cheaper desktop, I'm putting the mac Os on it. What 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.600 do I need to do in order to do that? Okay, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:41.120 here's the thing. The Mac Os is built for a 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:46.520 very specific hardware and bios configuration. Yes, I mean if 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.040 you if you are in control of the entire you know, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.080 theoretically in the entire line of computers, you know specifically 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.520 what processors you have used in the past and what 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.760 it should run on. Like Microsoft really has a much 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.880 more difficult job because they have to build an operating 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:07.520 system that can work on a huge variety of hardware. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.760 We're talking about different kinds of processors, motherboards, ram hard 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.520 drive space, I mean, video cards. It has to be 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.000 able to support all this different stuff. Now, Apple, the 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.880 OS only has to support a a limited number of 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:27.000 components because that's all Apple will use. Now, even within 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.600 a line of IMAX, depending on when you get one, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.160 the components may not be exactly the same because Apple, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.840 like other companies, is going to purchase their equipment in 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.600 places where it makes the most sense. So if if 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.640 one person, if one company, creates a motherboard that is 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.240 that the OS um supports, and that's the cheapest one 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:49.760 in the market, that's where they're gonna go. But if 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.160 another company starts to undercut the first one and the 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:56.400 OS also supports that motherboard configuration, you can bet that 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.640 Apple is gonna switch. So there are still a range 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.280 of of pieces of equipment that you can find in 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.520 the Macintosh line, but it's a much much more narrow range, right, 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.720 So if you want to build a PC that runs 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.360 mac OS reliably, that means that you have to make 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.480 sure that the components you pick are among those that 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.360 the OS supports, Otherwise you will have problems getting your 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.400 hardware to interact with your operating system. And that's gonna 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.120 be tricky, especially with UH stuff like the netbooks, because 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.440 the netbooks use and often use processors that were not 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.960 part of the the Apple line. Yeah, it's actually a 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.360 lot easier to build a desktop than it would be 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.320 to buy a netbook or laptop and strip it of 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.040 its operating system and put in a new one. Um, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.800 what you can do if you want to buy or 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.080 if you want to build your own computer, you would 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.160 buy the the components individually, including the case. So you're 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.240 talking about everything from the power source to the fan, 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:58.840 to the motherboard, to RAM, to hard drive, two disk drives. 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.000 All of that stuff needs to be purchased, and you 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.359 need to to look and see what the mac os supports. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.199 I will tell you right now. The source that I 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.920 found that I think gives the most um thorough walk 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:14.960 through of building a hackintosh is life Hacker. Life Hacker 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.240 gives a great rundown from beginning to end on how 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.000 to build a hackintosh. Uh they even link out to other, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.000 um other really really in depth articles about building your 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:28.359 own computer. So if you've never built a computer before, 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.840 and the language in that article is a little difficult 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.760 for you to understand because you're just not familiar with 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.960 the terminology, you can actually go to their earlier articles 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.840 and see, you know, you can build from the ground up. Okay, 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:46.760 so it's nice because it doesn't it's it's accessible. All right. Well, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.000 let's talk about what you would actually need to do 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.080 if you were going to do I mean, you know 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:52.920 in a nutshell that if you're gonna do it at 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.879 that level, you're really gonna go forward with it. I 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.320 wouldn't follow the instructions were going to lay out. I 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.440 think we're just gonna talk about the high end. Yeah, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.840 we're gonna about in general generalities. So, so you have 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.000 a you have a PC, maybe you built it, maybe 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.359 it's a netbook that you want to run ten on. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.600 How are you going to convince it that it's a Macintosh. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.440 The first thing you're gonna have to do is probably well, 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.680 as far as I'm concerned, is tweak your bios. Now, 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:22.880 the bios is this layer of programming that interacts between 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.760 your operating system and your computer's hardware. The bios has 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.280 to be able to operate in such a way that 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.600 it can convince the operating system that the underlying hardware 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:36.760 is in fact a Macintosh. So, um, you need to 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:38.880 find a set of directions, and there are many out 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.159 there on the web that tell you how to tweak 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.320 your BIOS in such a way so that it is 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.720 compatible with the mac Os because just plugging the mac 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:51.800 OS DVD into your PC and then trying to install 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.600 the operating system, that's not gonna work. And I just 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.879 do a clean install like that, right right. And I 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.199 can tell you from personal experience that this right, this 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:02.880 right here is going to keep a lot of people 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.119 from doing from trying this because UM, I installed a 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:11.560 copy of a Buntu Johnny jack Lope on an old 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.399 PC that I had, and uh, this is this is 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.359 a version of Linux for those of you who aren't 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.960 in the know. UM. Now, the Linux community is much 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.879 different because in this case, UM, I have had difficulty 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:29.040 finding a driver for the monitor that I have, so 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.439 I can't I'm having trouble changing the resolution of the 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.119 monitor and making the most of the size that I 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.440 have hooked up to the PC. The thing the difference 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:40.359 here is eventually the Linux community, somebody might write a 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.560 driver for that, because it's an open source operating system 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.639 and there are thousands and thousands of people messing with 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:47.880 it and tinkering with it and hacking it every day. Now, 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:50.679 in Apple's case, if I'm trying to do this with 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:53.679 a hack in tash and I can't get a particular 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.320 piece of hardware to work, then nobody's going to be 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:01.320 writing a driver for it because Apple is not supporting it. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.440 And the only luck and I can tell you from 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:06.080 you know, the amount of frustration of how with just 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:08.480 that one little thing where actually somebody might take a 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.600 look at it for real. You know, if I were 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.320 going to try to do this and it didn't work 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.280 right off the bat, I would probably go, well, the 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.199 chance to coming around this obstacle are pretty, you know, 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:20.760 pretty low. That's why I would go with building a 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.679 computer versus buying one and hoping that everything is going 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.680 to work out, because at least when you buy all 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.640 the components, especially if someone's already done this before, then 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.119 at least you have the you know, yeah, you have 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:33.960 something to fall back on saying, well, it worked in 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.760 this case, so it should work when I do it, 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.680 as long as I do everything correctly. When you're using 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.840 a different set of hardware, there's no way to predict that. 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.240 So um and and the only other thing you can 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.280 hope is that the next generation of Apple products actually 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:52.119 uses whatever hardware you is no longer is isn't recognized 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.879 by your operating system and that they patch it, which 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.640 is the chances are minuscule, but it's easy if you're 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.480 It would be far easier to build a hack intosh, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:05.080 if you were going to take the components themselves off 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:06.919 the store shelf and go, I know they used this, 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:08.399 I know they used that. I'm pretty sure they have 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:10.199 one of those in an iMac. You can put it 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:14.320 together and probably get it to work without too awfully 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.879 much difficulty. I would imagine, yeah, you'd have to it 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.720 would know what those things were. Usually you're gonna have 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:24.439 to rip the operating system software onto another desk. The 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:28.200 Lifehickers suggests that you buy your copy of the operating system, 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:31.080 so you're not just stealing it. Well, that's that's uh, 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:35.160 that's how side star is making its case because they're 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.560 buying legitimate copies of the operating system. It's just that 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.560 Apple says that it's a violation of the end user 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:43.359 license agreement to use it on a machine that is 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:45.840 not technically am academ Right. So side Star what they 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.680 are doing is they're doing exactly what I'm describing, except 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:50.520 they're doing it on a wider scale. They're doing it 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.639 in a mass production kind of way. I guess not 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:54.840