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Hackintosh Atom Fix In The Works

Frank — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:37:34 +0000

Fear not hackintosh faithful; according to Gizmodo, the hacker who is the driving force behind netbook hackintosh builds says that the kernel will be fixed for the Atom processors. “It’ll just take a few weeks.”

If you might have slipped with your netbook and upgraded to 10.6.2, you can still downgrade your kernel to get you back up and running again.

[Via Gizmodo]

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Woops: 10.6.2 Doesn’t Kill Atom Support

Frank — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:13:26 +0000

Woops, looks like 10.6.2 won’t kill support for the Atom chip after all. All you netbook hackintosh users can now breath a sigh of relief. We reported a few days ago that the latest developer build of Leopard had support for the Atom chipset removed. None of the Apple hardware uses the Atom chip so it looked like it was a direct attack at killing off the hackintosh community. Well, we were wrong.

It looks like Apple has added support for the Atom chip back in. Not sure why they did this in the first place. It could have been a mistake, could just be a temporary measure, but it can change again at any time. Apple is notorious for going to extreme measures to it’s OS off of non Apple hardware. Only time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy the latest developer build on your netbook.

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10.6.2 Kills Off Atom CPU Support

Frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Looks like Apple is taking another step to put a nail in the coffin of the hackintosh community. Looks like the developer build of Mac OS 10.6.2 lacks support for Intel’s Atom processor which every netbook around uses and is very popular in the hackintosh community.

If this is a conscious move on Apple’s part and they let the build go live we might be looking at another cat an mouse game between Apple and the legions of hackers in the hackintosh world.

For the longest time Apple hasn’t really anything heavy at stopping people from installing their OS on non Apple hardware. With a move like this, which really doesn’t streamline the OS and looks like a blatant attack on the hackintosh world, I wonder how long it will take set community to find a work around. You can never keep the power of the people down (I just had to throw that one in there).

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Rebel EFI: A Thorn In Apples Side

Frank — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:51:27 +0000

You guys remember Psystar, don’t you? Psystar was the company that openly sold hackintosh systems, complete with a beige box PC and OS X pre installed. Well looks like they have dealt another painful blow to the kids in Cupertino.

Rebel EFI is Psystar’s latest attempt at sending Steve Jobs off of the deep end. For $49.99 the company claims that their Rebel EFI software “allows for the easy installation of multiple operating systems” including OS X on plain old PC hardware. The software can also detect hardware on your system that is compatible with OS X.

There are always risks involved with running hackintosh systems. Apple can decide to roll out an update to OS X at anytime that will break this functionality and let’s not even get into the legal issues surrounding running an Apple OS on non Apple hardware.

If you want to see it for yourself you can grab a trial copy of the software off of their site that will run with a two hour time limit.

[link to Rebel EFI]

Rebel EFI: A Thorn In Apples Side originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2009/10/23. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Running OS X

Frank — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:50:23 +0000

The UMPCs are become hot little machines to turn into hackintoshes. The latest victim is the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Loaded with a slipstreamed version of OSX (in a similar manner as the MSI Wind). To top it all off, the ethernet, wireless, and sound work.

If you have a Mini 9 and want to get OS X running on it then UneasySilence has everything you need.

I just wish some crafty hacker could come up with a kernel that would run on the HP Mini Note. I have been banging my head for months trying to get OS X on it.

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OS X On A MSI Wind

Frank — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:31:54 +0000

Seems that install Linux on computers is so yesterday. Now everyone wants to put OS X on their machine (I still run Linux on my MacBook Pro, go figure). The latest computer to fall into the hackintosh realm is the MSI Wind. A crafty hacker on this forum has laid out everything you need to do in order to get OS X running on your Wind.

I wish someone would get OS X running on my Hp 2133 mini-note. No luck as of yet with it.

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OS X Mod-Chip EFi-X Spotted In The Wild

Frank — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:57:02 +0000

Looks like the EFiX USB dongle that is suppose to relive all of the hackintosh headaches isn’t living up to expectations. The EFiX is designed to let you install and run OS X unmodified on x86 hardware, not any hardware, but the hardware that EFiX claims is compatible. You should even be able to run OS X updates without fear of breaking your system.

The product has been delayed several times, but now seems to be shipping in select European countries (no luck in North America just yet). The hackintosh community is up in arms since they claim that the device uses technology that has been developed by the community. Let’s not even go into the legal issue of this either.

There have been some reports in the InsanelyMac forums of users with both success and failure (both on unsupported hardware), but I’m sure as these things ship more and more people will be piping in with their results. If the device works as it claims, it could be a cool way to building a fast and cheap dual boot system without the limitations of Apple hardware.

OS X Mod-Chip EFi-X Spotted In The Wild originally appeared on tech.nocr.at on 2008/09/12. Reproduction of content not allowed without consent.

Hackintosh OS X, No Hacking Needed

Frank — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:44:35 +0000

When Steve Jobs first announced that Apple would be moving to the Intel platform it really didnâ€™t take very long before hackers slapped together a working copy of OS X running on a plain old vanilla box PC.

Letâ€™s leap to today. With most of the hackintosh community working out all the kinks and bugs that may have come with early adoption of this type of hack, today you can easily install Leopard on a plain old PC almost as easily as installing it on an actual Mac.

Lifehacker has a great write up on installing OS X on a home built PC with much less hacking than was first needed. Connivence for the lazy (like me)

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Leopard On The EEEPC

Frank — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:41:54 +0000

I have written a lot about the Asus EEEPC. We even covered that crazy dude who put every possible hardware mod into the thing. Iâ€™ve had various flavours of Linux running, Windows, and yes ever Leopard (with a little hackintosh love).

When I decided to give Leopard a whirl on my tiny machine I followed Dan from Uneasy Silenceâ€™s guide on slapping Leopard on it. If you arenâ€™t a Mac lover he also has a guide on running Vista (although I can never figure out why you would want to) on your tiny device.

â€œSo, ever since I got the eeePC I’ve loved how easy it is to tinker with. Since I’m not a Linux guy, I dumped the Xandros preload and opted for Windows XP so I could you my EVDO USB datacard and blogging software easier, but I wondered could I install OSX on it? And, after trial and error – you can!â€

Link to loading Leopard
Link to loading Vista

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