I bought this little Netbook some time back now, it was an impulse buy and the goal was to have a small netbook to take around various sites to SSH into Server and for this it worked great. It came with 512MB ram (cheapest one with a proper HD) and I have installed Ubuntu, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 through it’s life. I thought I would give it a go at OSX – why not right?
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Another Shot at the Hackintosh
Yes Hackinotsh Fans – I tried to update the Athlon in the Last Story to 10.5.7 to allows Safari V4 but after much trying and eventually failing, I managed to kill the machine enough that it needed a rebuilt, this was not big deal for me, do it all the time anyhow. Read on and find out how I managed to get the machine working with all the updates on-board…
AMD 64 Hackintosh
I recently turned my time once again to turning a normal desktop PC into a fully fledged OS X desktop, out of all the machines around me, I choose to turn a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P (AMD 3700+ 64Bit) into a working Mac Desktop.
Another Word about Making a Hackintosh
I am still getting people asking me in various places and mainly in chat on the Tech Buzz about everything to do with making a Hackintosh with whatever hardware they have around with such as will there wireless work (yet do not know the make or model), sound or even how to get the files in the first place.
The first thing to mention is that your going to need to “Torrent” The files, this can take a while to find and a lot longer to download, it is after all a complete DVD we are downloading. Next your going to need a DVD Writer to write the resulting ISO file to a blank DVD, you would be amazed at how many failed to see they would need such a thing with questions such as “Can I not use a CD instead” – well doh.
I always suggest that you have a system which you can wipe as once the installer gets going, it is going to wipe that hard drive, it is easy to place a spare HD in that laptop and save having to wipe the OS on there for example. If it gets to the installer, this is a good start, if the machine is not going to work, it will not even get this far and you would have lost nothing at this stage. If it foes get to the installer screen, you have to make sure you know what hardware you have, boot into windows and make a note of soundcard, video card etc.
Lastly – my advice is just suck it and see – what is there to loose? Try it and if it fails, start again – yes it takes ages but we are after all getting OS X Machine for Free. A Point to remember is that unless Apple used the hardware in one of there machines at some point, then it won’t work as nobody actually writes any drivers as such but just modifies what is already around.
You can use two web sites to look things up yourself, after all this is what I do, I did not invent OSX86 or try it on every Laptop/Desktop – I just got it working across a very wide range of machines with a of trial and error.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
(This is the Wiki – has a lot of info)
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php
(This is the forum – ask there).
