In the great debate between Apple hardware and Hackintosh’d systems, I would have to say yes.  I have been going round and round trying to get OSX 10.5.6 loaded on my Dell XPS M1330 lately and it is just not fun.  I got OSX 10.5.5 installed and working with my wireless network, but I could not properly shutdown, sleep, or reboot the machine.  I also didn’t seem to have sound.

Finally after trying to get it running again to start playing around with a new SDK for an upcoming mobile platform, I gave up.

So…

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Hackintoshing – verb

1: Taking a perfectly good PC and attempting to install Mac OSX 10.5.6 using a questionably obtained ISO.

2: Placing your face in your palm while repeatedly installing an operating system not natively meant for your computer hard ware.

3. Winning the battle but losing the war.

Related Words for: Hackintoshing

frustration, annoyance, masochism, repetition

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