{"id":15908,"date":"2014-03-25T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=15908"},"modified":"2021-02-22T14:26:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:26:59","slug":"its-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/03\/25\/its-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s ALIVE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"on-button\"<\/a>It was around Christmas time when Apple was rolling out their modern marvel of industrial design, the black and beautiful Mac Pro<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and my good friend Dan<\/strong><\/em> was starting to get an itch for a new toy. He liked the looks of Apple’s new cylinder, but couldn’t get past the $3,000 price tag of their “low end”<\/em> model. As pretty as it is, the folks from Cupertino, California could keep it.<\/p>\n

But that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to get a new toy!<\/em><\/p>\n

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…and it didn’t mean he was going to go without a Mac Pro!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Think-Cheap\"<\/a>It was a little more than a year ago that Dan had bankrolled the construction of the Customac Mini<\/strong><\/em> as a proof-of-concept. A Customac<\/em> or a Hackintosh<\/em><\/a> is a PC assembled with just the right components along with a few software patches and work-arounds that will run Apple’s operating system for the Mac. Dan bought the laundry list of parts as detailed at tonymacx86<\/a> which were shipped to my house, and it was up to me to put together. I detailed the small, ersatz Mac mini’s construction and operation here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here,<\/a> here<\/a> and here<\/a>. It was the first PC I ever built, but I followed the instructions, and it worked. The concept was proved; the guys on the internet weren’t crazy; I got the computer component fever, and Dan pondered the possibility of building one of the more powerful rigs at tonymacx86<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dan, being all too generous, gave me the fruit of my labors as a gift that Christmas. I’ve been running it for over a year, and although it is a lowly Intel i3 processor, it is easily the most powerful computer I have, and it runs like a dream. This further proved the concept and Dan compiled a shopping list.<\/p>\n