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- Motherboard
- Hackintosh
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- i5 3570
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- HD 4000
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I’m a relative n00b, but I don’t see any reason why the System76 Gazelle laptop (sold as an Ubuntu workstation) wouldn't Hackintosh? I like the 1920x1080 matte screen (whoever decided 1366x768 made sense for a 15.6" laptop screen, or that glossy made sense period, I want to meet and have words with).
Is there anything I can ask before I plunk down the coin, to make sure? (Northbridge/southbridge? Etc.) $1132 ($79 less for the non-matte display) buys:
I don’t know what Ethernet, sound, etc., controllers are present, I’ll email them and ask...
The equivalent MacBook Pro is $2,199, has a 1680x1050 matte display, maxes out at 8GB (I think; at least that's the highest you can configure it with on Apple's store), has about the same dimensions and weight, adds Thunderbolt and Firewire 800 ports, and has a second (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M) video card in addition to the HD 4000 -- not sure I’d ever use the NVIDIA, I’m not a gamer...
Tempted... Not sure what to ask them before I pull the trigger, though, to maximize my chances that this is a compatible machine.
Is there anything I can ask before I plunk down the coin, to make sure? (Northbridge/southbridge? Etc.) $1132 ($79 less for the non-matte display) buys:
- Intel Core i7-3610QM ((4) 2.30GHz cores w/ hyperthreading; 6MB L3 cache)
- Intel HD Graphics 4000 (which I know works in Mountain Lion courtesy Chimera)
- 8 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB (+$144 for 2x8GB)
- 120 GB Intel 520 Series SATA III 6 Gb/s Solid State Disk Drive (-$14 for a 128GB Crucial M4; I tend to hold on to hardware longer than I should -- just revived a 2006 Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro -- so the longevity of the Intel units is appealing)
- 8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive
- Intel Centrino 1030 - 802.11 b/g/n Wireless LAN + Bluetooth (I've read this works in a Hackintosh; +$20 for an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth module, which I'm not sure will work with a Hackintosh and I don't know that I need BT 4 or Wi-Fi Direct)
- Gigabit Ethernet and the usual panoply of USB 3.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, etc. ports, card reader, etc.
- Multitouch trackpad (at least two fingers, all I ever use anyway)
I don’t know what Ethernet, sound, etc., controllers are present, I’ll email them and ask...
The equivalent MacBook Pro is $2,199, has a 1680x1050 matte display, maxes out at 8GB (I think; at least that's the highest you can configure it with on Apple's store), has about the same dimensions and weight, adds Thunderbolt and Firewire 800 ports, and has a second (NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M) video card in addition to the HD 4000 -- not sure I’d ever use the NVIDIA, I’m not a gamer...
Tempted... Not sure what to ask them before I pull the trigger, though, to maximize my chances that this is a compatible machine.
