DIY: Build a Leopard Mac for $350
With the cheapest Macs selling for $600 nowadays, countless (broke) DIY Mac nerds have taken matters into their own hands. Thanks to their efforts, it’s possible to build a decent Mac for $350.
Forget those expensive, ugly computers Apple tries to push down our throats. Instead, check out the $350 build-your-own Mac guide at WildWobby.
The guide includes a list of recommended hardware items. Though it’s not absolutely necessary to use these parts for the project, WildWobby has already tested and put together this set. As a result, it’s probably easiest to use them, but try to avoid the Celeron processor.
Unfortunately, the WildWobby tutorial suggests using the Kalyway Leopard DVD downloaded from a torrent.
Keep in mind that this breaks Apple’s end user license agreement, so if you don’t like lawsuits or angry letters, don’t do this. As we all know, Apple doesn’t like DIY Mac stuff like this.
Still, it’s nice to know what’s possible.
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February 5th, 2008
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November 21st, 2008
Oh god……… can’t echo that hard enough…… give the Celery-on the hardest swerve you can unless you’re a/ utterly cash strapped but b/ really need a brand new mac and c/ won’t be doing anything more taxing than single-tasking web browsing or office apps. Otherwise you’ll end up buying two CPUs in the end – the celly first, then whatever non-crippled unit you choose to replace it with.
I didn’t believe how hard it would hurt the performance to have one of those in, until I had to start using PCs with the damn things in. Any kind of multitasking, or even heavy single tasking apps, and they slow to a crawl thanks to all the vital features that have been lost. At least the current ones have swung back to the “full size cache” phase of the full-cache-minimal-cache cycle they seem to go thru, but there’s something else keelhauling their abilities that I just can’t fathom. Swap in a proper Pentium (or AMD equivalent…) of the same generation and clock speed, and the machine suddenly bursts into life, as if it was previously short on RAM and you just gave it enough to stop it continually paging-out.