- Joined
- Aug 10, 2010
- Messages
- 256
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z270N-Wifi
- CPU
- i5-7600K
- Graphics
- GTX 1050
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
It's great to see that this community is still thriving. I built my very first and only Hackintosh years ago with the help on this forum. It was a great experience. However, I have since sold that unit to a younger family member and because of the amount of time I've had on my hands haven't been able to take the time an dedication needed to build a great hackintosh.
I now own a 2012 Macbook Pro with top of the line specs and an old Polycarbonate Intel Mac mini with not so great specs. I'm looking to replace that Mac Mini. At first I was looking for a guide to actually take that polycarbonate housing and gut it to make a killer, nostalgic Mac Mini hackintosh but I haven't found anything useful. I"m still open to this idea if anyone has some information. In the meantime I figured I'll start really simple
A LOT has changed since I was last here. When I left DSDT's were becoming popular but now it looks like, at least for some boards, they're not even needed for a completely functioning unit. Consider my mind blown. I'm really just sticking to the suggested build guide laid out in the Buyer's Guide. While I have more time now I still don't have a great deal of it. So the easier the set up the better. So below are a list of questions. I hope the community won't flame me because these have been asked already and most likely answered 1000 times. Here it goes.
1) In using the Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI mb is it just ready to go out of the box with minimal BIOS changes and no DSDT?
2) The board comes with M.2. Is that an option for a boot drive? The few threads I've found were sort of old but seems there's trouble?
3) Are the Intel graphics sufficient and usable? I don't need a graphics card for this build.
I now own a 2012 Macbook Pro with top of the line specs and an old Polycarbonate Intel Mac mini with not so great specs. I'm looking to replace that Mac Mini. At first I was looking for a guide to actually take that polycarbonate housing and gut it to make a killer, nostalgic Mac Mini hackintosh but I haven't found anything useful. I"m still open to this idea if anyone has some information. In the meantime I figured I'll start really simple
A LOT has changed since I was last here. When I left DSDT's were becoming popular but now it looks like, at least for some boards, they're not even needed for a completely functioning unit. Consider my mind blown. I'm really just sticking to the suggested build guide laid out in the Buyer's Guide. While I have more time now I still don't have a great deal of it. So the easier the set up the better. So below are a list of questions. I hope the community won't flame me because these have been asked already and most likely answered 1000 times. Here it goes.
1) In using the Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI mb is it just ready to go out of the box with minimal BIOS changes and no DSDT?
2) The board comes with M.2. Is that an option for a boot drive? The few threads I've found were sort of old but seems there's trouble?
3) Are the Intel graphics sufficient and usable? I don't need a graphics card for this build.