TL;DR: Here is the complete list of the fully built TonyMacx86 CustoMac Mini that I'd like to sell:
- Intel Core i3-3225 Ivy Bridge 3.3 Ghz LGA 1155 55W Dual-Core Desktop Precessor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I33225
- Gigabyte GA-H61N-USB3 LGA 1155 Intel H61 HDMI USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
- Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2B1600C9
- Western Digital WD Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM
- APEX MI-00 Black Steel Mini-ITX Tower Computer Case 250W Power Supply
- Cooler Master 120mm Blue LED Case Cooler
- Apple Macbook A1181 BCM94322MC Dual Band Wireless Card
- Mini PCI-E to PCI-E Wireless Adapter w/ 3 Antenna Wifi
Story Time
I hope I'm not violating any rediquette rules by posting this. I read the FAQs as well as sidebars looking to see if this type of post (i.e. selling my hackintosh) is allowed. I didn't see anything so please excuse me if I made an error.
Back in March of this year, I was hired as a consultant for a digital ad agency to work with their strategy team. I mainly worked from home but everyone at the main office used an Apple computer, and I was fresh out of grad school with my PC. There was a lot of keynotes being created and I needed to get a Mac.
Since I had to pay for my own gear and I was a newly graduated student, I thought making a Hackintosh would be a great way to get a computer for work on the cheap.
I built a Hackintosh using TonyMacx86's CustoMac Mini as my guide and followed the directions as best as I could but it was a pain getting the software loaded since I didn't have any Apple computers at home, and I didn't have any friends close by that I could borrow their Macs to get the OS source files. It was a pain for the numerous back and forth trips but eventually I got it up and running and it worked really great.
After about two months, I got a bubble telling me that the OS had an update ready for me. I clicked it, and after the update, I couldn't get the keyboard to work. I looked around in forums, posted here in reddit, trying to figure out how to fix it to no avail. After a week of borrowing friends computers to get Apple new files to attempt to fix my own, and trying over and over to fix it, I just said "F THIS" and ponied up the money to buy a MacBook.
Since then, my CustoMac Mini has been sitting in my room, fully built, and untouched. The parts are practically brand new since I only used it for around 2 months. I spent probably around $500ish on I literally have no use for it now that I have my MacBook. Since I'm still a starving post grad student, I'd like to see if there is any interest in someone who would like to buy a CustoMac Pre Made, that just needs to have the latest TonyMacx86 software loaded up and reset up. I would do it myself, but to be completely honest, I got so tired of trying to fix and build this thing, and now that I've got a MacBook, I literally have no desire nor time to try to F with this thing anymore.
If there are any questions or if anyone is interested, please let me know.
And if i violated any redditquette, let me apologize again. I didn't know where else to post this.
EDIT: Grammar and clarity.
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