Step 1: Create RAID array and install Mac OS X Step 3 is specific to my NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB video card. Here are the steps I used, after going down many wrong paths, to finally get my Hackintosh working with Mac OS X 10.6.7. This thing called MultiBeast has been invented and the Chameleon bootloader has grown a lot too. In the two years since my original setup, the Hackintosh community has been hard at work improving and streamlining the boot and hacking process. This past week, however, through a sequence of turning off my computer mid-boot several times, I managed to break its ability to boot to the USB flash drive, thus bricking my entire computer. This was especially annoying since I've gone all wireless, because I'd have to keep a wired keyboard around to plug in for navigating the boot menu. Back when I originally did the hacking to get Mac OS X to run on it, there was no known way to boot to a RAID array, so I had to boot to a USB flash drive, and then select my RAID disk. The computer I bought was the recommended setup that Lifehacker guaranteed would work as a Hackintosh, with a few small variations. As you might imagine, it's pretty speedy. As if using an SSD wasn't fast enough, I bought two of them and used RAID striping, a technique which splits the data evenly across both drives, so when I want to load a file, half of the file is read from one disk and half is read from another in parallel. The biggest bottleneck in common use of most modern personal computers is the hard drive access processors are fast, memory is fast, but hard drives are slow. One important decision I made was to go with a Solid State Drive for the boot drive. I can't remember the last time I've been so pleased with a computer purchase, especially two years later. Almost two years ago, I bought a Hackintosh: a normal Intel PC that can be converted to run Mac OS X, resulting in an $800 computer with the power of a $2400 Mac Pro.