Has anyone built a "hackintosh"?

dubdisciple
interesting.  i find it incredible that you can build the equivalent of a $4000 mac for about $1000

That might be a wee bit extreme, but I know several folks that have built Hackintoshes, and they work, and in two cases they are in use in studios running Logic and DP.
 
Since all I'd want to do is run DP and Max and a couple other things that work better on a Mac I'd probably just go with a Mac Mini - but it would be fun to build one.

I have a pretty powerful computer and a high end video card. Could I turn it into a Mac by adding a drive with OSX installed? That might be REAL good. I could have the best of both worlds.

Well, I'm not saying it's impossible to build a working Mac clone, but going by his experience and what I've seen on forums when considering doing it myself it looks like a bit of a lottery whether it's worth the potential trouble.

I ended up getting an Apple-refurbished iMac, still expensive for what they are but a bit of a saving over the prices for brand new ones.

My 2 cents and observation. 
My son did this in an attempt to make a Dell laptop work for his DJ audio set up. Could not get rid of a DPCL spike in Windows. So he partitioned the drive and first tried Lynux Ubuntu worse because no drivers for his Native Instrument set up. So he installed OSX which had drivers and of course the DPCL issue was still there because it was the bios. He did enjoy mucking about for about a year but being his age hated it because you have to pay!! for stuff, unlike Windows where everything is pirated. But it did work and I used it a few times and could see no difference at all, the laptop was the wrong colour( black) that's all. If you do this make sure everything is white or silver.. 
 
My other observation is with the schools. I used to work there in maintenance and school bus, my daughter and many friends are teachers and administrators. The IT guy who works for my wife's dental office also works for the School district. He was hired by the SD because he was a mac guy. 
10 years ago 80% of the school computers were Macs. There was some deal that Apple made that is history now. But over time the Mac's have all but disappeared and the local SD has gone 100% Lenovo and HP. A few teachers still have the Mac Books but have been told they are on there own for tech support now. The SD opted out of the Mac world due to networking and costs issues with maintaining them. 
My daughter hated her Mac and is happy to have a "real " laptop now. The Macs were always screwing up and spent more time on the workbench and when the OS goes out of date you cannot re use them. Now she can deal with little things herself and the techs are slowly being cut back in their hours. She said, when a Mac's screws up you cannot fix it your self and overall the Mac Books were not dependable at all. The Lenovo's seem bulletproof and work on the network much better.  
They still use iPads big time in schools with the Smart Blackboards and for the better teaching apps. 
My wife's IT guy recommends Macs if you have the cash for personal use and Lenovo's or HP for business, networking and servers. He still uses a Mac personally, but works with 90% PC now. My wife's boss the dentist of course uses a Mac. 

Last PC I put together w/ the help of a friend could technically have been made into a Hackintosh, w/ the parts I had, and I studied the option for a while, having quite a bit of time on my hands that spring.
 
But I realized that it was probably the most un-Apple thing to do, short of building you own processor. I envisioned headache after headache.
 
Running a Windows PC was actually more in line with the Apple experience.
 
 

i never understood what my friend was tring to get out of building a Hackintosh,he has problems with drivers,running his programs and just general useability tring to run PT and Logic on it.