I used my time without the hard drive to do a little research to try and find out if there was any explanation for why it would not boot into the hard drive without the USB drive. My research uncovered a couple of possible causes. One possibility was that it could be related to the size of the hard drive. Some people indicated that if the hard drive was partitioned more than 1 TB in size then it could cause some boot issues. Another possible cause of the problem was that it is a green hard drive. Several people indicated that they had issues with a Western Digital green hard drive. Even though my hard drive is a Seagate green hard drive, I still thought that it was reasonably possible that this could be the cause of the problem. Read More...

It’s been a few weeks now since I first started building my Hackintosh and I have to say the experience was much more challenging than I thought it would be.  When I started the project I had about 4 hours each evening for about a week to complete the project.  Since this was not my first Hackintosh build, I thought that would be enough time.  I gave myself two evenings to put the project together and then I figured I would use the evenings through the rest of the week to troubleshoot any problems I had with audio not working or networking issues or any other similar types of problems that might crop up. Read More...

After I discovered the sub-culture of silent PC entusiasts I mentioned in Part 1, it really got me excited about the possibility of building another Hackintosh. If I could have the power of top end components, house them in a near silent environment, keep them cooled properly AND do it all on my budget, then I would have the best possible scenario. Read More...

In January of 2009 I purchased my first Mac computer. It was a used Macbook that I found on eBay and it didn’t take long for me to become a Mac enthusiast. While I originally purchased the Macbook because I believed GarageBand would help me take my podcast to the next level, it turned out that I ended up liking the Mac for many reasons other than GarageBand. I also discovered that I’m not a big fan of GarageBand for podcast editing. But editing audio on my small 13″ Macbook screen was not as efficient as I wanted and I soon found myself longing for a bigger screen and easier to use mouse. I wanted a Mac Pro or an iMac, but those were too expensive for my limited budget. My solution? I decided to build a Hackintosh. Read More...