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The top is designed to be taken off and the internal power supply and DVD drive hinge up out to the way to make every thing visible. The first thing I found when working on the HP computer was how easy it was to open and access everything inside – nothing like the complexities of working on any recent Mac model. Link to Fenvi Comms Card at Amazon US Innards of the HP Elite 8300
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I recently purchased a Fenvi HB1200 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth card for $51 to give me full communication options, bringing the all up cost to $287, wow. My other purchases for this project were a used 24” HD monitor for $50, a Display Port to HDMI cable for $8, and a tube of thermal paste to use when swapping out the Intel Processor for $9. I located an Acer computer online with the required i7 “Ivy Bridge” processor, 4GB of RAM and no hard drive and secured it for $97.
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My first challenge I discovered, was that the inbuilt graphics of the Intel i5 “Ivy Bridge” family processor in the HP computer would not be good enough and I would have to use a dedicated graphics card or upgrade the processor to an Intel i7. Unlike most computers I have worked on, this was spotlessly clean inside. They were built to commercial specifications with a much better case, a reliable power supply and motherboard designed to be on 24/7. The PC computer I chose is a HP Elite 8300 with 8GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive that I picked up for $72. The most important task when going down the Hackintosh path is to do lots of research. Clearly I’ve already contributed thousands of dollars to Apple’s coffers over the years. In my collection I have an Apple //e, an Apple //GS Woz edition, a Macintosh 512K, a G4 Power Mac tower, an iBook G4, a 2009 15” MacBook Pro and a 2013 13” MacBook Pro, a 2009 Mac mini, a couple of iPads and a couple of iPhones and handfuls of Apple TVs. I have never been tempted by the Dark Side. Now we all know that Allison is a huge Apple fan-girl, but I have been an Apple fan-boy for 35 years and hanging onto Apple gear for far too long. A little research quickly showed me how extensive the practice was and the fantastic wealth of instructions and advice available.
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I had been aware that as Mac OSX runs on the same Intel processors as Windows computers, lots of people had been using these to make a “cheap” Mac clone. Perhaps a new 27” iMac was on the cards, but with a base price in Australia of $2,799 plus $320 to increase the RAM to 16GB and another whopping $800 to replace the 1TB Fusion drive with a 1TB SSD brings it to $3,919. So my problem to be solved was what do I replace it with? It is a very competent iMac that I love using. I had upgraded it to 20GB of RAM, a 500GB SSD alongside the existing 1TB hard drive and SuperDrive.
When Mojave was released last year I was disappointed that my 2011 iMac was deemed incapable of running it. See relevant Laws in your own country before testing a solution like this. This post is meant to inspire the geek in all of us and to look at creative ways to make tech work for you. Creating a Hackintosh is not endorsed by Podfeet Podcasts.
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