Ultimate “PowerPC” (10.6 Rosetta) Hackintosh

[lastmile]

I’ve got a Quicksilver G4 as my ultimate OS 9 Mac and a maxed-out quad G5 running 10.4 for OS X and Classic. I’ve built several hackintoshes (and given up on efforts to hack several pre-built PCs) to run later versions of OS X / MacOS.

I’ve been thinking about building a hackintosh to run 10.6 since that was the last OS able to run PowerPC apps. I don’t have a really compelling reason, it’s another step along the path of:

Quicksilver - Fastest Mac (I don’t like MDDs) running OS 9 natively

Quad G5 - Fastest Mac running OS 9 under Classic

Quad G5 - Fastest Mac running OS X PowerPC apps natively

Snow Leopard Hackintosh - Fastest “Mac” running PowerPC apps under Rosetta

Other Hackintosh - Intel apps only; running newer, faster hardware not supported under Snow Leopard

The graphics card is the biggest difference I can think of between a maxed out Snow Leopard hack and one running a later OS.

Would a 2GB 6870 (a bit rare) be the best card for 10.6?

Any other tips for 10.6 hack?

 

[Stork]

The last several years of computer hardware left Snow Leopard behind. See the following older Buyer's Guide for Snow Leopard compatible hardware:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...versions-of-os-x-using-older-chipsets.141225/

See also the Snow Leopard forum section:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/forums/snow-leopard-desktop-support.9
https://www.tonymacx86.com/forums/snow-leopard-desktop-guides.35

 

[future_former]

It's not a good idea to build a separate machine especially for 10.6. I would suggest you to virtualize that old OS X via Parallels or VMware Fusion. It works relative flawless, and you are able to transport your installation to every new machine.

I have every OS X since 10.5 virtualized under Parallels.