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22 Jan 2010, 11:27 am

Anyone here run a Hackintosh? I'm buying Snow Leopard tomorrow and plan to install it on a old PC I have (as well as upgrade my MacBook, of course).

BTW, it's not against the EULA. I'm not pirating my copy of SL, I'm buying it retail, and my PC is Apple labeled (those stickers they give you are useful!) :wink:

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22 Jan 2010, 11:35 am

i had one but didnt use it

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22 Jan 2010, 11:38 am

alex wrote:

i had one but didnt use it

TBH, I'm not sure I will that much either, but it's still a fun project, and it'll give me something to use my PCs for

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22 Jan 2010, 2:35 pm

I was once running Mac OS X on my computer. It wasn't that great at all, for one you cant adjust the screen resolution and it ran terribly slow. If you going to make a Hackintosh, I would recommend downloading something like Kalyway because it makes things way more simpler. There is also a big community, so support along the way wont be a problem. Best of luck with it. I may give it a crack too, things have changed since I last used hackintosh.

Last time I checked, you needed a Pentium 4 or higher, just bare that in mind

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22 Jan 2010, 4:58 pm

lxuser wrote:

Yeah, sometimes you get suboptimal results using OS X on non-Apple hardware. For the record, Apple has never sold an Intel Mac with a processor as bad as the Pentium 4, so don't expect to be able to get the fancy Macintosh experience on a Pentium hackintosh. A Core 2 Duo would be the best bet, since that's the main chip Apple has used since the Intel transition.

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23 Jan 2010, 12:05 am

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I was running it on a machine thats fitted with a C2D E6850, I wonder if it would run nicer on a Core i7.

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23 Jan 2010, 4:19 pm

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Depending on your graphics hardware, you should be able to adjust your resolution with a kext.

The computer I'm doing this on has a P4, I'm not expecting it to be great, but it's mostly just a fun project for me anyway, especially since I have a MacBook already.

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23 Jan 2010, 6:00 pm

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What kind of P4 is it? LGA775 socket?

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23 Jan 2010, 9:29 pm

Yes, the model of P4 is important. Quite a few components of OSX use SSE3, you'll need some additional hack if your P4 only supports SSE2.

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24 Jan 2010, 6:05 am

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Yes, the model of P4 is important. Quite a few components of OSX use SSE3, you'll need some additional hack if your P4 only supports SSE2.

I'm gonna install CPU-Z today and have a check, but knowing my luck it's one of the old ones that only has SSE2. However, I am prepared for that, as I've already downloaded the legacy SSE2 kernel.

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24 Jan 2010, 3:39 pm

Asp-Z wrote:

CloudWalker wrote:

Yes, the model of P4 is important. Quite a few components of OSX use SSE3, you'll need some additional hack if your P4 only supports SSE2.

I'm gonna install CPU-Z today and have a check, but knowing my luck it's one of the old ones that only has SSE2. However, I am prepared for that, as I've already downloaded the legacy SSE2 kernel.

You can also get SSE3 emulators.

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25 Jan 2010, 12:08 pm

As I expected, I do have the SSE2 Pentium 4. I've set up a patched install of Snow Leopard with the SSE2 kernel and all the other kexts I need on my external HD, but now need to actually get the damn thing to boot. My BIOS dosen't seem to like me trying to boot from my USB external hard drive...

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25 Jan 2010, 3:11 pm

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Just do an installation that has the voodoo kernel.

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25 Jan 2010, 3:15 pm

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Just do an installation that has the voodoo kernel.

But I'm not using a distro, I got my install disk, restored it to a partition of my external HD, and patched it all myself. It's been made bootable with the Chameleon bootloader. I managed to boot it on another near-identical PC I own (with the same CPU) but am getting a kernel panic, so that's the next thing I need to fix!

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25 Jan 2010, 7:30 pm

I made my Toshiba laptop into a hackintosh a few months back... actually ran quite nearly perfect except two MAJOR drawbacks. It would only read my 3.06Ghz proc as 100Mhz, yet still ran, so I suppose that was an issue integrating with the BIOS, and it refused to let me do ANY networking. Other than that, it performed better than I expected. Graphics worked as well as they always had, sound worked perfectly, everything. But I couldn't get past the lack of internet, so the next time I cleaned my HD I did away with it.

I used Leo4All for that install, never had luck with Kalyway.

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30 Jan 2010, 3:42 am

Asp-Z wrote:

lxuser wrote:

Asp-Z wrote:

Just do an installation that has the voodoo kernel.

You can install the voodoo kernel in a default OS X installation on your Hackintosh, it apparently has more drivers.

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