Got my Hackintosh up and running

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I just got my hands on a Dell Latitude D600 laptop for surfing, email and traveling enetrainment. After checking what it had ate, I noticed it should be pretty much compatible with Mac Os X. I had previously installed Os X into a P4 desktop with disappointing results, but decided to try again. After a day of fighting it's working, and I'm currently writing this with a PC laptop running Mac Os X 10.4.8 Mail works, Opera works, MSN works, pretty much everything that doesn't need HW graphics acceleration works just fine. iTunes works flawlessly and even Duke Nukem 3D played fine

Couldn't be happier, I love the OS and now this laptop is perfect for light internet use and shit.

Oh yeah, it isn't absolutely legal or morally correct, but...

 

[JeffTD]

I couldn't get it to work on my AMD machine or this shit P4 we have in the house, but I didn't try very hard. Glad you hear you got it working! You go with the JaS version?

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Yeah, it's the JaS version. It was pretty much clicking through the graphical installer and the OS was up and running. It took some .kext tweaking after that to get networking etc. working, though.

The P4 Hackintosh had probably the first leaked developer 10.4.1, here's a screen from it: http://www.nic.fi/~jhakwe/macosx.jpg . It was a pain to get to even install, I was limited to 1024x768, and so on

 

[::XeS::]

Is it stable? Can you work with this hackintosh or there are issues?

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Is it stable? Can you work with this hackintosh or there are issues?

Besides the graphics acceleration not working (no newest games, DivX or DVD) it works perfectly for web use and shit, the OS hasn't crashed a single time.

 

[JeffTD]

Yeah, I'm tempted to get a cheapshit P4 or something off eBay or get mine to work, and just run it as a Logic node for extra processing power.

 

[AudioPhile777]

Haha... I've been thinking about doing this as a dual boot... but haven't gotten up the courage to try it...

Just not interested in reinstalling everything on my pc side should it not work, lol.

 

[_RiseInside_]

so how stable is hackintosh these days ?

 

[JBroll]

Congrats, I still think about trying that occasionally...

Jeff