[Eugene]

I run an unconventional Athlon X2 3800+ (nForce4) based Hackintosh so my experiences would be largely irrelevant. I'm 100% sure its stability issues are due to the vast architectural differences in my hardware from standard Apple fare.

Off the shelf Intel based components should work much better however. The Photoshop issue is fixed by installing a custom AppleSMBIOS.kext file. The kernel panics, I'm not sure about. The one thing I'll mention though is that the AMD-based "Zephyroth" Install DVD is a lot tidier and better maintained than the popular "Kalyway" Intel DVD.