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  • A handy-dandy Hackintosh compatibility chart

    A handy-dandy Hackintosh compatibility chart

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    The world of Hackintosh can be a scary place to enter. You wanna make a OS X netbook but have no idea where to start. I feel you. Here's a comprehensive chart that will get you going in the right direction. The worst thing you can do is buy a netbook on a whim and expect everything to work in OS X. There are definitely better models suited for the task than others.

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  • No worries, OS 10.6.2 does not kill Atom support

    No worries, OS 10.6.2 does not kill Atom support

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The Hackintosh community can let out one big sigh of relief now. The latest build of OS 10.6.2 (10C535) supports the Intel Atom platform unlike the previous version that caused so much panic and concern earlier in the week. Of course, as the source states, nothing is official until the final of version of the update [...]

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  • Citizen Journalism: Making a Psystar Hackintosh

    Citizen Journalism: Making a Psystar Hackintosh

    Posted on October 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Reader Louis sent in this longish missive about his own experiences installing a Psystar Hackintosh. We were stymied last night by the authentification procedure so we didn't even get as far as Louis but it seems that the install, while fairly seamless, is fraught with problems. The speakers on our HP, for example, don't work and while Apple's Ink feature shows up in the control panel, the touchscreen is about useless. Here's Louis' take:
    I saw your article about the success you've had. I'd like to share my experience to date. I'm running a G31M-ES2L and an 8800GT. It's an original PsyStar machine with an upgraded video card. I purchased the app yesterday. Followed install instructions posted . The SL install reports a failure but I could boot to the desktop in SL with the Rebel EFI CD. (The instructions have since been revised to reflect this).

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  • Great success! Our Hackintosh is alive thanks to Psystar

    Great success! Our Hackintosh is alive thanks to Psystar

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s been a few hours since the Internet exploded over the Psystar Rebel_EFI bootloader and we tried it out on a few machines in the office and originally thought it failed. However, I let the boot screen run for a bit without touching the keyboard on an HP TouchSmart we had here and it suddenly [...]

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