Bone Stock, Mac Pro 1,1 7300gt, 14gig ram Lion, (Firefox Last good browser)

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

Charles - my Mac Pro 1,1 is running Mavericks perfectly. You have to install it with a bootloader-type setup (I used SFOTT) but it works great and it's not difficult to do at all. SFOTT creates the install disc (or thumbdrive) for you once you set it up for your machine. Has detailed instructions too. 

The only downside is that you'll need to upgrade your video card for Mavericks. There are no drivers for the 7300 in 10.9, so your card will behave VERY poorly. Any GeForce card made after 2011 should work out of the box with Lion or later. I got a nice GTX 570 1.25gb card off a guy on craigslist for about $40 and it works fine. 

I've read about people running Yosemite and El Cap on the 1,1 too, but with varying degrees of success. Besides, Yosemite was such a turd, who'd want to try?

 

[uniserver]

i have a PCIE GeForce210 1024m card here... 

Hey can you send me your set up thumb drive i don't have the time to set one up.

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

I'll see if I can find it when I get home... I have a pile of those suckers and I'm pretty sure I haven't written over it...

And that 210 card should work just fine.

 

[uniserver]

awesome send er out man... ill hook ya up!

 

[Cory5412]

It would be best not to discuss the actual process of building a hackintosh in anything other than the most broad and generic of terms, and also not to share the specific software, here.

So... what slightly older-than-a-Mac Pro1,1 quad-core laptops exist, let alone outperform one?

My apologies for the confusion. I meant "slightly older" as in "a laptop from 2011." I was pretty much thinking of mobile Sandy Bridge and newer parts when I wrote that. 

 

[Hotdog Zanzibar]

I'm sorry, this is the "hacks & development" forum. People interpret that as "you're free to talk about hacks & development here." Maybe you should rename the forum the "non-specific hacks & development forum."

Aside from that, "building a hackintosh" is not the same as loading an OS onto an "unsupported" computer. We're talking about using an existing Mac to run software that it technically can run, but isn't officially supported. 

 

[Cory5412]

The process is still hackintoshing, even though it's with Apple's hardware.

It's also hacks and development within the context of old beige Macs.

Most of the hacks for vintage Macs aren't against the EULA of a current version of a product that the richest company on the planet. Even if the existing track record is that they don't legally enforce the EULA against individuals.