Quote Originally Posted by Vindir View Post
Sounds pretty awesome all around man. I'll be pairing it with one or two of the korean ips panels so it would need to stay away from the HD4K graphics, but overall it makes for a way better plan than what I've been dreading purchasing.

Definitely look forward to hearing any field reports you update with.

I'm wondering how you'll fare with updates. Have you looked into how hard they fight against hackintosh setups?
From what I've heard, apple has actually made it easier recently. My research has led me to believe that the boot loader and installer configures the os to read the hardware as being a 3rd generation Mac Pro. That's what it shows up as under the About This Mac tab. Since the processor, audio, gpu, USB, Ethernet, etc are all used in other macs or are fully supported under the os for future macs, there is really no way to disable functionality without disabling it for real macs. That's the great part about apple going with conventional hardware. Gigabyte has cashed in on the hackintosh community by designing their motherboards with all apple used hardware.

A quick update: sleep is fully working. The CPU can go through all it's power steps without any problems.
Let me know if you have any questions when you decide to purchase.

Also while disassembling the G5 that I had laying around, I found a 500GB Seagate enterprise HDD in it. Quite a score. It's comparable to a 100 dollar RE4 drive.