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Laptop Compatibility

HP Pavilion 15-bc004ur (X5C34EA)
Intel Core i5-6300HQ (2.3 - 3.2)
nVidia GeForce GTX 950M
Can this laptop can be make into Mackintosh? 10.11 or 10.12
 
Hi!
Probably sounds silly to you seasoned builders, but is there a reason why I couldn't start with my 2012 mbpr (2.7 quad i7), tear it open, disconnect the old cpu/motherboard & graphics card, send some wires out the side to upgraded components (which could be chosen from one of the Hack Pro builds?
Sorry that this is totally newb... (o:
thanks a bunch!
Garrett
 
GarrettNorvell said:
Hi!
Probably sounds silly to you seasoned builders, but is there a reason why I couldn't start with my 2012 mbpr (2.7 quad i7), tear it open, disconnect the old cpu/motherboard & graphics card, send some wires out the side to upgraded components (which could be chosen from one of the Hack Pro builds?
Sorry that this is totally newb... (o:
thanks a bunch!
Garrett
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Not sure why you would want to do that... Even in the unlikely event it worked, it would make a rather clumsy laptop.
 
RehabMan said:
Not sure why you would want to do that... Even in the unlikely event it worked, it would make a rather clumsy laptop.
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Good question! (o:
it's frustrating to have a "pro" laptop and not be able to upgrade it's components easily; it seems (to a novice like me) that a hybrid hackintosh using mostly original mac components would be more stable than a completely pieced-together hackintosh...so long as the new components are from standard hackintosh builds (known to be supported by MacOS).
Externalizing some of the components would mean that I wouldn't have the size restraints of my laptop or the cooling issues.
I don't really use my laptop as a laptop; I take it to work with me at a hospital where it sits on a desk for 12 hours, so having an external box with the processor/videocard is no more of a problem than having an external harddrive and a bunch of dongles (I'm lookin' at you, 2016 mbp).
The big questions would be, based on your collective experiences, 1) would a hybrid hack really be any more stable than a pc-turned-hack, and 2) is it physically possible to redirect this mutant beast to use an external processor/motherboard/videocard...
thanks again!
 
GarrettNorvell said:
Good question! (o:
it's frustrating to have a "pro" laptop and not be able to upgrade it's components easily; it seems (to a novice like me) that a hybrid hackintosh using mostly original mac components would be more stable than a completely pieced-together hackintosh...so long as the new components are from standard hackintosh builds (known to be supported by MacOS).
Externalizing some of the components would mean that I wouldn't have the size restraints of my laptop or the cooling issues.
I don't really use my laptop as a laptop; I take it to work with me at a hospital where it sits on a desk for 12 hours, so having an external box with the processor/videocard is no more of a problem than having an external harddrive and a bunch of dongles (I'm lookin' at you, 2016 mbp).
The big questions would be, based on your collective experiences, 1) would a hybrid hack really be any more stable than a pc-turned-hack, and 2) is it physically possible to redirect this mutant beast to use an external processor/motherboard/videocard...
thanks again!
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If what you want is a desktop computer, build a desktop computer.
 
RehabMan said:
If what you want is a desktop computer, build a desktop computer.
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Thanks RehabMan!
Yeah, I still may do that but then I'd have to drag a desktop with me to the hospital's ER each day (-; I'd rather just be able to connect an external hard drive an external mb and an external graphics card, heheh
Simplifying the situation purely for my education sake, would one be able to theoretically externalize the guts of a MBPR using the exact same components as the original? And if so, and given that there are certain components that are known to be supported by macOS, then it seems like this kind of hybrid SHOULD work...if it wouldn't work, would that be b/c the software just wouldn't recognize the components anymore?
 
GarrettNorvell said:
Thanks RehabMan!
Yeah, I still may do that but then I'd have to drag a desktop with me to the hospital's ER each day (-; I'd rather just be able to connect an external hard drive an external mb and an external graphics card, heheh
Simplifying the situation purely for my education sake, would one be able to theoretically externalize the guts of a MBPR using the exact same components as the original? And if so, and given that there are certain components that are known to be supported by macOS, then it seems like this kind of hybrid SHOULD work...if it wouldn't work, would that be b/c the software just wouldn't recognize the components anymore?
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Personally, I don't see any reason to take the guts out of a laptop to create a desktop... because then you still have a desktop, but with laptop components.
 
Man Why can't just name one or two specific laptop instead compatibility ? Like XYZ laptop is you can get closest to mac as Hacintosh
 
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