You also have individual components listed in the hardware database too. Unfortunately, it cannot be guaranteed that these will always work together (sound, network, graphics…).
Therefore, a selection function for assembling would not make sense, as one cannot declare the assembly as 100% functional.
I don’t know about Hackintosh guide, but it definitely would feel nice to see guide to build a HaikuBox.
But then, at the same time that might align to what Haiku wanting to achieve? Maybe? I don’t know. Maybe there’s already some form of guides out there.
I have several old laptops and desktops. Haiku runs more on less on all of them. If you can’t get a laptop as already suggested then I would suggest using the hardware compatability listing to choose something relatively cheap on eBay or similar.
I certainly wouldn’t buy a new laptop to run Haiku and I have had mixed experiences with dual booting. Newer systems tend to have devices for which drivers are yet to be written / ported.
Don’t fret about not knowing enough. The BeOS/Haiku books are helpful as is this forum when you get stuck.
Thank you for the help, everyone.
I feel like I will either (A)built a PC for Haiku, or (B)get a mini PC that confirmed to learn Haiku well. Hope I can share my experience with Haiku on this forum even more, in the future.
Hi, do you mind if I ask you how it is to learn Haiku on NUC Intel? I feel like your experience was the most close to mine, and I also should try similar approach. Get the same model, or try another mini PC.
Learning Haiku on a NUC or another working machine is quite simple.
You can use a memory stick where live Haiku is installed, if you have access to that machine, it’s the best to test everything is ok.
I have had good results with Thinkpads. I have run bare metal on a T500, X60 and X270. These required no configuration and everything just works.
My main computer is homebuilt but as a general hardware reference I am running an ASUS B550 motherboard with a Ryzen 5700X and a Radeon 6800xt. For wireless I have a generic cheap AX210 PCIe card. With a processor this fast I can watch 1440p video flawlessly and I cannot really feel the effects of not having hardware video acceleration with daily tasks. I assume most similar hardware of this generation should be relatively trouble free if you are looking for something modern to dual boot.
The Thinkpad X280 also works!
Also x220,x230, T420, T430, T430s, T460s, T470s
Running on bare metal, Thinkpad X280 and Dell 5480. The only thing that doesn’t work well is the touchpad. On the x280 the driver keeps crashing, but it recovers in 1 second (happens every 10-20 seconds depending on the usage). On the DELL, it doesn’t work at all (hence the mouse). With the addition of a mouse, it all works perfectly.
Works fine up to Tx60 or Tx70 Thinkpads, someone is working in on a i2c driver, AFAIK
