Hardware Requirements to install Mac

Motherboard

-- Reports are floating around that the motherboard in the machines using Intel that Apple was giving to developers was very close to a Intel D915GUX motherboard. That motherboard uses the following chip-sets:

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Intel 915G Chipset

I/O Control
LPC Bus I/O controller

Audio
Intel High Definition Audio subsystem using the Realtek ALC860 audio codec.

Video
Intel GMA900 onboard graphics subsystem

LAN Support
The board provides one of the following:
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Marvel* Yukon* 88E8050 PCI Express* Gigabit Ethernet Controller
10/100 Mbits/sec LAN subsystem using the Intel 82562EZ Platform LAN Connect (PLC) device
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Motherboard: ASRock 775Dual-915GL Micro ATX Intel Motherboard. The 775Dual-915GL has a Intel 915GL Northbridge, and an Intel ICH6 Southbridge, the same stuff the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL has a Realtek ALC850 8 channel AC'97 audio codec chipset, pretty close to what the Intel board has. The 775Dual-915GL also has a fully compatible Ethernet chipset and SATA chipset (using SATA now, works great). The biggest thing about 775Dual-915GL is that it has an Integrated Intel Media Accelerator 900 video card, the only card that is fully supported by OSX86 because it is the one that the Intel Developer Machines (sold to developers by Apple) have. It has Core Image and Quartz Extreme automatically enabled on the installation of OSX86, and it supports high resolutions. Sure, the card is nothing compared to the latest and greatest from Nvidia and ATI, but the fastest of videos cards will run like a used bargain-basement model under OSX86 because there are no fully-functional drivers for any Nvidia or ATI cards in OSX86.

CPU

-- Okay, so the word is that both AMD and Intel CPUs work great, as long as they are SSE2 and SSE3 enabled. You can use a CPU with just SSE2, except you will need to do some hacking to get only some PowerPC applications running, and your general computing experience will be slower with SSE2. If you don't have SSE2 and you try installing OSX86: when you bootup your computer it will lockup after it gets to the gray Apple logo.

It would probably be best to get an Intel CPU for two reasons.

(1) The low-end CPUs in the Intel line had SSE3, while low-end AMD CPUs had only SSE2, and for my tight budget that makes Intel my friend.

(2) It appeared that most problems people were having were only happening with non-Intel products. The CPU I chose was: Intel Celeron D 330J 533MHz FSB LGA 775 Processor. I would recommend, if you happen to have some extra cash, that you get a Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading, note the bold.