I had struggled long and hard with the the Toshiba A120 Laptop, the specs read as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66GHz
Chipset Intel 945GM Express
15.4″ TFT Screen running @ 1280×800
Graphic Controller Intel 945GM Express
1 GIG DDR-2 Ram
Intel Pro 1000 Wired Network Card
Intel Pro Wireless 3945ABG
Realtek HD Audio
160GIG SATA-2 Drive
Upon initially trying both the Kalyway (Stop error on Screen) and Leo4All V3 (Kernel Panic on APIC) – I set about searching for answers to see if this was even possible to put OS X on there and every single post I found said the same thing – seems it was never to be. I am not one for giving up though and I had a brain wave, what if the BIOS needed updating? My BIOS was at version 1.50 and the latest was 3.40 – quite a bit out then. My next problem is the BIOS Updater was a Windows Program and I had not got windows installed, only Ubuntu. I put in the recovery DVD and left it going overnight. Next morning I Updated the BIOS, stuck in a Leo4All DVD and selected what I needed to Install, I had already wrote down from Windows what Hardware I had in there. I left the machine Installing and I went off to Work – would it work when I got back? Would it be stuck on the Installer or would I be Sitting looking at OS X??
The Laptop was on but nothing on Screen – it had tried to Powersave of course but fails on a Hackintos. I hard Booted the machine and soon it came up to a OS X Desktop – brilliant. Now we go on to check what works and what does not.
Graphics:
The Screen was running at 1280×800 with QE (Quartz Extreme) and CI (Core Image).
Sound:
I had sound working – though plugging in a Headset – the sound still came out of the Speakers.
Networking:
The Wired Connection worked just fine at full 1 Gigabit speed.
The Wireless did not work at all (not even showing up) and it seems the drivers are not ready yet – so no Wireless unless I plug in a USB One I have spare, I am not all that Bothered as of now though.
Sleep does not work as it should so I switched it off on the power saving options, would have been nice for it to work but I can live without this feature for now. All in all I am very happy – I have my very Own Mac Book (of sorts) and can now use OS X anywhere as I choose.
