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Cool. I want to build a cheap(er) one for the kids and sell my MDD. Small, low power, quiet. Something that could sleep without crashing (unlike my MDD ...) would be a plus.
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It's probably time for a new set of hardware recipes for compatible hackintoshes that run SL. $400 goes a LONG way these days in component parts. And if you keep an eye out on geeks.com, many of those parts can be had for half price or less, if you are willing to wait. I was doing some checking, and I suspect you could build a box close to the speed of the now defunct all plastic macbook for ~$250 plus hard drive.
Ironically, hackintoshes are in some ways better suited to those users that DON'T want to tinker. I have a staff member who has not run software update on their mac in over a year.
I now have 3 of these machines - all in dramatically different form factors - and each are running a different flavor of the OS. With the exception of one that I'll probably try to make a SL boot drive - more out of curiosity than anything else - I suspect they'll stay at their current OS incarnations for most of their lifespan.
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My experince with my Frakkintosh is that the GigaByte main boards are the easiest to work with as far as getting various pieces of the hack to work right. I've got an EP45-UD3R that has everything working with 10.5.8, and has also worked well in Sno Leo, which I don't want or need right now. I have deep sleep, ethernet, multiple SATA hard drives and DVD drives, etc. Quick and smooth.
I'm not saying it was easy, but there are really good guides for doing this at efixusers.com and at insanelymac.com. And if you want to try it out, you can always post here for a few tips and pointers too, which might be easier than plowing through the ton of stuff at insanelymac; I think the stuff at efixusers is easier to get at.
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If you have trouble getting an onboard Ethernet port to work (especially in 10.6), just grab one of these and pop it in a PCI slot. Works out of the box:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6833156139
