Parallels consistently gets higher marks than VMWare in both performance as well as ease of use and UI.

I'm not trying to troll here at all, honest, but I can't find a single Windows-exclusive app that's either available for OS X, has a superior alternative on OS X, or is completely unnecessary on OS X. The only ones are really utilities, which are OS exclusive by nature. But even there there are ones to match the power…

To be fair, I mentioned off-hand to a Genius at an Apple Store I have a hackintosh. Without breaking stride, he asked if I bought the OS. I told him yes and he shrugged. "We won't support it on the phone or if you bring it in, but as long as you bought the software, we don't really care that much".

The linked Tonymacx86 site has a list of supported builds at all costs, but $600 is about the lowest you can get for a half-decent PC. Walmart doesn't count.

If the added power doesn't mean much to you—and frankly, to most people here, it doesn't—then go for a Mac Mini, hands down.

If the DVD boots without issue there's a good chance OS X will run just fine. Granted, you'll possibly need vastly different Kexts than these, but it could work.

I agree. If you're looking for small and light (HTPC, etc.), get a Mac Mini. Otherwise, go all out with a full ATX case for more flexibility.

MacBook Pro 13's use the Sandy Bridge graphics, so theoretically yes. I wouldn't recommend it though.

I love Pixelmator, and Final Cut (7) =[

Everything you can do on a Macintosh you can do on a Hackintosh. Golden rule. If your system is solid, theres zero restrictions. None.

This. If you are able to create a custom DSDT.aml you'll never have to sweat updates and, in some instances, never have to use any Kexts at all.

100% false. Maybe you had a bad experience with your particular hackintosh, but I've been updating since 10.6.0 and taxing my hardware to its limit without a single KP for 2 years. This on an OEM Dell XPS 420 in no way ever destined to run OS X.

Everything you can do with a Macintosh, you can do with a hackintosh. As far as the software's concerned, you're using a real-live blessed-by-the-lords-of-Apple Mac. I cannot stress this enough.

The point being not to save money, but to get much more PC for approximately the same cost.

I recommend Mac Mini's all the time. Especially to people on threads like this who don't know what RAM is. If you're comfortable with the innards of your PC though, it's hard to beat the power to price performance of a hackintosh.

GPUs are cheap, and you can surely find a cheaper, fully supported one with Google. If you still can't afford one though, on your head it be.

Brands shouldn't make too much of a difference. GPUs in general are pretty flexible.

A working hackintosh, software wise, is exactly the same as any Macintosh. Everything you can do on a Mac you can do with a hackintosh. Everything.

The point of this guide is to provide a list of rock-solid OS X-capable components. If you can get another CPU to work, good on ya! It shouldn't effect this guide much, but success is not guaranteed.

While you can partition a hard drive and have Windows/OS X on a single hard drive, all of the troubles this will cause makes it not worth it. Both OS X and Windows create more than one partition when you install, which contains the bootloader, among other things. This is really ugly for both OS's, and neither likes to…