B UILDyour own
H ackintosh
Why should Apple-loving weenies be the only ones with access
to OS X? We show you how to run Apple’s OS on real PC parts
BY ROBERTO BALDWIN
S X is out there. You’ve seen it in
coffee shops, on TV, in the laps of
hipsters at the local taqueria.
There‘s no shame in wondering
what all the fuss is about. Hell,
it’s healthy to mix it up a little bit. If only the
idea of sending Steve Jobs and the rest of
Apple, Inc. thousands of your hard-earned
dollars didn’t send you into a cold sweat
that only a game of Left4Dead can cure.
Still, OS X is the subject of many glowing
reviews. Even hardcore PC users are singing its praises. If you have the itch to try out
OS X, but you’re not down with shelling out
the cash for a new Mac, we have one word
for you: Hackintosh.
When Apple announced the move to
Intel processors for its computer lineup,
the search was on for a practical way to
install OS X on non-Apple hardware. Over
the years, the best way to achieve this feat
was to patch a retail version of the OS X
install from Apple. Users would scour the
Internet for the patches—always hoping
that what they downloaded was indeed the
correct patch, and not some virus or trojan
horse ready to wreck havoc on their PCs.
But these days the quest for OS X needn’t
be so perilous. Read on to see how an inventive little USB device can let you easily dual
boot OS X on non-Apple hardware, using a
legitimate copy of OS X.
PHOTOGRAPH B Y MARK MADEO
