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June 20, 2012
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How to Build Your Own Hackintosh Mac Pro

Build a Hackintosh!  Discover how to get faster speeds for a lower price than Apple’s Mac Pro.

Build Your Own Hackintosh

Many professional Apple users were anticipating a significant update to their beloved Mac Pro tower at this year’s WWDC.   After all, it had been over 2 years since Apple had issued an update to their high-end Mac Pro line.  What they ended up getting was a VERY minor update to the Mac Pro…leaving many pro users to wonder if it was the end of the line for this production workhorse.  The ensuing backlash by Mac users resulted in Apple issuing a statement that they were in fact working on a major update to the Mac Pro tower, but that it would likely be 2013 before it was released.

So creative professional, do you want to wait…or do you want to build an updated Mac Pro clone (or Hackintosh) for about half the cost?  It might be time to take matters into your own hands.

Build a Hackintosh – Lifehacker

Lifehacker has addressed this need with a post outlining the tech equipment you need to build your own Hackintosh Mac Pro.   They offer up three options for creating either an entry-level, mid-range or high-end version of the Mac Pro using standard PC hardware  Even the most basic Hackintosh on this list is faster than Apple’s current Mac Pro.

Build a Mac Pro Hackintosh

These Hackintosh builds will cost you SIGNFICANTLY less than their official Mac counterparts.  In the case of the highest end model, you can build a Hackintosh for around $2,000 compared to the $7,700 cost of the Apple model.

Check out Lifehacker for instructions on how to build a Mac Pro Hackintosh.

Build a Hackintosh – No Film School

Industry favorites NoFilmSchool.com also have a very in-depth Hackintosh build guide that’s worth checking out. This step-by-step guide gives you detailed instructions on how to assemble the hardware, install OSX and test performance.  They even put together a quick video demo showing just how wicked fast their Hackintosh system is running.

The NoFilmSchool guide covers every detail on how how to build a Hackintosh Mac Pro.  Get all the info to build your own.

So, it looks like you’re going to have to wait for a new Apple Mac Pro.  But, with a little research, parts gathering and patience you can build a Hackintosh…and it might be even better.

Have you attempted to build your own Hackintosh?
Let us know about your thoughts/experiences in the comments!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/migeo.najarian Michel-Georges Najarian

    If we want to build a hackintosh, musn’t we use a mac motherboard? I really wanna have a really good desktop. At first I thought about vaio l series, then the iMac but afterwards I discovered Mac Pro and I fell in love with it. I love mac’s system and I am very familiar with it. I thought about building my own mac pro but I gotta admit: I didn’t know how. S I searched for every part off the mac pro or went for a better and cheapest thing (
    Intel Core i7-3820 Processor (BX80619I73820 or Nvidia graphic cards and 3T internal hard disks x4). I finally found everything except the mac pro’s motherboard (logic board). But I am only 14 and I don’t know a lot of things about hackintoshes so I though that I HAD to get the mac pro’s logic board. but I know an awesome motherboard (http://www.ebay.ca/itm/TYAN-S7010AGM2NRF-Dual-LGA1366-Quad-Core-Xeon-5500-5600-Motherboard-Board-S7010-/320976111483?pt=Motherboards&hash=item4abbaac77b#ht_3126wt_906). But then how will I have Mac’s system? by installing it with lion? I’m not sure. (btw I wanna have the mac pro case so the mac pro logic board is necessary right?) Thanks for a quick answer!

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  • john

    no you will need to mod the case if you dont use the motherboard if you whant you need to get the tools to change the back of the case and find out the pin out for the power plug then you could use a custtom power supply there is a lot of things you could do im makeing one right now if you need any help fell free to email me a johnward371@gmail.com or check out my youtube page tutorialward ill be posting my hackintosh when im done

  • http://twitter.com/javajoint Daniel Smith

    Cant wait to do this for an all-out desktop machine. I did it for an HP 4530s laptop: http://daniel.org/cafebucky/2012/11/15/the-story-of-my-hackintosh-laptop/ — definitely can recommend this in terms of performance for the price + setting up a dual boot environment!

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