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30 Jan 2010, 5:49 am

I got it working now! Just found out that my computer has 512MB RAM when I thought it was 1GB, so it's not letting me start the installation... No matter, I'm doing a little trick to change the system requirements to 512MB

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31 Jan 2010, 2:20 am

Since I wanted to get into iPhone programming, I recently turned my old laptop into a hackintosh. Works perfectly except for wifi, which I can get around by using a crossover cable with my primary laptop since I dont use the hackintosh portably much anymore.

Hardest part was actually getting my fan working. I couldn't figure out why my machine was constantly locking up, but then on a whim I touched the fan exhaust and noticed it was scolding hot. Installing a temperature monitor and seeing that running no programs and idling at 85c is a scary sight indeed.

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31 Jan 2010, 12:37 pm

Elfnote wrote:

Did you sort that in the end? I'm sure there are programs that let you manually control the fans, that's a good workaround.

Progress on my Hackintosh: it now starts without complaining about the RAM, but it's not detecting the internal (IDE with ATA controller) HD.

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31 Jan 2010, 4:29 pm

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I had the same problem, I had to use the Leo4All disk. None of the other cracked ones would work, and neither would vanilla. You can try digging through that disk, seeing what kext is in there that makes it work.

And 85c? Wow, you're lucky that thing didn't blow itself up.

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31 Jan 2010, 4:45 pm

I did get it working in the end. My install was using a retail snow leopard disk with boot123. I got the temperature thing worked out by using the kexts in this blog post:

http://prasys.co.cc/2010/01/legacy-appl ... iec-kexts/

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31 Jan 2010, 8:01 pm

I'd rather buy the parts to build a Mac than run OS X on unsupported hardware. It can be done, but one needs to know just where to look.

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31 Jan 2010, 8:56 pm

To all the Hackintosh folks:

Why bother? What's so great about OS X that you want to go through all the effort to run it on unsupported hardware? It seems like it would make a lot more sense just to run Linux.

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01 Feb 2010, 11:50 am

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I own three Macs already, I don't need to do it at all, but it's a challenge, and it's fun, so I am. Where's the fun in installing a supported OS? You just pop the disk in and turn the computer on. Booorrrrrrrrinnnnnngggggggggggg....

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01 Feb 2010, 7:13 pm

Orwell wrote:

For me, and I'm sure this is the case for many others, there's no software to do what we would want to do in Linux or Windows, or for various reasons we need the Macintosh version. Since I would only need the mac for the one thing or software, I don't feel like I should have to spend $250+ for a secondhand mac mini. I'd rather spend $30 on the OS and use existing hardware I already have lying around.

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01 Feb 2010, 8:54 pm

Elfnote wrote:

For me, and I'm sure this is the case for many others, there's no software to do what we would want to do in Linux or Windows, or for various reasons we need the Macintosh version.

Now I'm curious... I dual-boot OS X and Linux (on a Mac) and every piece of software I use in OS X has an analog in Ubuntu. More often, I have trouble finding a Mac equivalent to some Linux program. And in Windows there should be even less difficulty. What Mac-exclusive stuff are you using that requires OS X?

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02 Feb 2010, 1:42 am

Orwell wrote:

Elfnote wrote:

For me, and I'm sure this is the case for many others, there's no software to do what we would want to do in Linux or Windows, or for various reasons we need the Macintosh version.

The iphone SDK. There's no Linux or Windows port, and there probably wont ever be. Sure, I could just target Jailbroken phones, but I"m hoping to be able to actually publish something on their app store, which rules out that option.

I also know someone who volunteers at a church that uses a program called Pro Presenter, and would like a copy for home use to be able to better learn it, but its Mac-Only and similar software that does run on Windows doesn't come close to its user interface, making it pointless to consider.

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