{"id":16709,"date":"2014-06-24T06:14:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T11:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16709"},"modified":"2019-11-26T06:58:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:58:31","slug":"the-third-time-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/06\/24\/the-third-time-around\/","title":{"rendered":"The Third Time Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"spidey-hack\"<\/a>I’ve recently completed building my third PC which also happens to be my third Hackintosh!<\/p>\n

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\"boy-g4\"<\/a>I thought my son had gotten all of the mileage he possibly could out of used and well worn Dual G4 Power Mac. It still runs, but it’s wind tunnel<\/em> design makes it remarkably noisy and it runs an operating system that has been obsolete for years. I thought it was time to put this big chunk of plastic out to pasture and replace it with something more secure, speedier, more energy efficient and cost effective.<\/p>\n

Being that the boy was going to be graduating from 8th Grade and soon entering High School, he needed something new. Of course, I could brave the crowds on Walnut Street; wait my turn to deal with the pleasant automatons at the computer store with the fruity name, and wind up with a gorgeous piece of industrial design that has mobile components or I could have built a more powerful machine for about half the price.<\/p>\n

\"Think-Cheap\"You know what Daddy was going to do!<\/em><\/p>\n

I had recently upgraded<\/a> the case to my Hackintosh, and this is where the real Dr. Frankenstein obsessing started as I started to figure what parts to swap and what parts to swap out. New components were bought. Older components were cannibalized. I felt like a hot rod mechanic picking through auto graveyard parts and reconfiguring them with the hottest engine he could lay his hands on.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>

Two Mini-ITX Cases<\/p><\/div>\n

I had gathered the parts and I went to work. Overall the build went smoothly, but I had to make some disappointing compromises which I’ll go into next week.<\/p>\n

\"CM-mess\"<\/a>Next week, I’ll go into the particulars of the build, a few hiccups and the next build I’m already imagining! Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently completed building my third PC which also happens to be my third Hackintosh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[317,518],"tags":[2179,2235,3674,2161,1030],"class_list":["post-16709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-joes-garage","tag-build","tag-customac","tag-diy","tag-hackintosh","tag-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11689,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/02\/05\/more-thoughts-on-the-hackintosh\/","url_meta":{"origin":16709,"position":0},"title":"More thoughts on the Hackintosh","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I have successfully built a Hackintosh or, as the folks at Tonymacx86 call it, a CustoMac Mini, and the more I think of it, the more it makes sense. 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