07-10-2010, 10:22 PM
Mini 9 wrote:
How much more (dollars) would one have to spend?
How easy is it?
You'd need at the minimum a processor, RAM, a DVD drive, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case. From there it'd be purely your preferences. Might want a better video card (the onboard video works), a faster network card, audio (I used a cheap USB audio dongle, but I'm pretty sure the onboard audio can be made to work), etc., etc. But you'd have to try pretty hard to spend more than $400, total, to have a good working machine. Depending on how much the processor and RAM put you back, you might be able to knock a hundred or so off that total.
It's not hard to do a retail install using a Boot-132 CD (but I never tried it with 10.6, so YMMV). Google is very much your friend with it comes to Hackintosh installations... quick search just told me that this board works well with the "blackosx" boot CD.