Since Apple decided in June 2005 to team up with Intel Computers to be the base of their computers, the OSX86 scene has gone wild trying to “Hack” OS X onto their computers, when I heard about this I immediately jumped at trying to get it installed on my own PC without much success as I had so many Kernel Panic, no Graphics Kexts for my graphics card and no Networking support - it was frankly useless.

Recently though, OS X Leopard has changed all this and has made it relatively easy thanks to people such as “Kalyway” who has hacked the 10.5.1 image of OS X and has enabled users without much trouble to install OS X on their PCs. I have eventually managed to get it onto my PC with all parts working. Along with the 10.5.1 image, I have been able to update to 10.5.2 and have it fully working.

As you can see, it’s fully working, I am really enjoying the “Mac Experience” without the expense of a real Mac! Also I’ve noticed a distinct increase in Stability over Windows, not saying I’ve not managed to crash it, but it is more stable.

If anyone else wants to start trying out a Hackintosh, head over to the OsX86 project Wiki, which will let you know what hardware works with what and theres lots of tips and advice there.