- Joined
- Feb 5, 2018
- Messages
- 8
- Motherboard
- researching, help? :( Need Intel 5520/LGA 1366 (cant be X58)
- CPU
- will be a LGA 1366 Xeon (or two)
- Graphics
- probably to be Nvidia (Quadro maybe)
- Classic Mac
Hi, if anyone searches/remembers my past posts I got a little held up (am a college student and thought i'd have summer off to build up my Mac but ended up needing to take certain summer classes afterall to get them in).. i'm still in the earliest stage of a Hackintosh. I have some hardware already I might use but i'll be hoping to buy stuff perhaps more suited for my end goal as well.
Anyway my question... I mostly wanted to verify things because it's a little hard to verify something. Which versions of OSX are free, and does that include "full install" versions or ONLY "upgrade" versions that have to start from a 10.6 install?
To try answer myself by what I can see if you have an original 10.6 disc, all upgrades should be free. But what concerned me is what happens if i'm installing onto newer hardware and 10.6 doesn't recognize that... if I can get 10.6 working on older starter hardware, am I able to download literally install versions of ALL newer systems, that are capable of upgrading OR clean installing to bare metal? Or will they only be upgradeable from my original 10.6 install once working?
Anyway my question... I mostly wanted to verify things because it's a little hard to verify something. Which versions of OSX are free, and does that include "full install" versions or ONLY "upgrade" versions that have to start from a 10.6 install?
To try answer myself by what I can see if you have an original 10.6 disc, all upgrades should be free. But what concerned me is what happens if i'm installing onto newer hardware and 10.6 doesn't recognize that... if I can get 10.6 working on older starter hardware, am I able to download literally install versions of ALL newer systems, that are capable of upgrading OR clean installing to bare metal? Or will they only be upgradeable from my original 10.6 install once working?