Hackintosh on Powermac G5 or how to assemble a workstation

Back in 2010, I saw him. Spaghetti, being both brutal and elegant. It was love at first sight.

It is worth saying that at that time I had been indulging in my hackintosh assemblies for two years, and only a couple of years ago I told myself that that’s all, I tie it up. Yes, and I already had the original device from Apple. Oh gods, I probably went through all the circles of hell to get Mac OS X on a non-native hardware, and even left manuals on specialized sites. But one achievement was not conquered by me. Assemble everything in the G5 case ...

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You can still see a small spoiler, in the form of rearranged legs under the motherboard ...

As you can see, everything worked out just fine:

And it got even better:

The rest of the cooling system from the G5 will not be useful to us ... Well, or so far I have not figured out how to use it, so that it would not look too collective.

Total

For today, this is all that I managed to describe. I repeat. The technical part is fully implemented and works with a bang. But the narrative seems to take no less time than assembling it all. If nevertheless this interests the noble gentlemen, I will try to give birth to the second part as quickly as possible. In the meantime, all success!