Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 Get's Mac Makeover
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.
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about 2 years ago
Just got to add that the Audio output is fine but no input (mic). There is also the issue of headphone sockets produce sound as well as speakers (I have seen this on Ubuntu as Well).