My definition of fully working means that graphics work perfectly with QE and CI, audio, touchpad, usb, and ethernet must work too. WIFI isn't as critical because anyone can replace their MiniPCI WIFI card with a cheap compatible replacement card. It seems to me that the ATI Radeon 9600 is the only truely working graphics chip. This is because the chip is used in genuine apples so it is fully supported. My friend has two hackintoshes, a macbook, and a powerbook. He wants a fully working hackintosh for under $400 and I think it can be done with some help from eBay and this scene. Here is my list of budget laptops which use the ATI Radeon 9600. My reasearch indicates that everything else should work on these too--confirmation needed.
Gateway

• M505
• M505X
• 7405GX
• 7422GX

eMachines

• M6805
• M6809
• M6811

HP / Compaq

• NC6000 - commented on below

Averatec

• 5500 (AV5500)
• 6100 (AV6000)

IBM Thinkpad

• T60

Please post comments regarding the use of these laptops or just your thoughts. It would be useful for us to put together a list of inexpensive fully working OSX86 compatible laptops. Also, I noticed that Apple also uses ATI Radeon 9700 chips. Has anyone tried using a laptop with the 9700?

lots of budget laptops use GMA 900 and 950s, they have QE/CI right off from install (usually), might be worth listing those.

The problem with those laptops is that they don't work unless you start them with an external monitor plugged in. There is no fix for the problem and I consider it big enough to call those laptops non-working.

Dell inspiron 6400/E1505 works QE/CI without external cable, but no sound support (sigmatel9200)

I have an HP NC6000 (Pentium M version). QE/CI work out of the box, with a bit of tearing. Powermanagement works almost with the hacked power management bundle, with some 1.4.7 kexts it even shows state directly after boot (ac/batt), but only updates correctly after re-inserting the battery. Turning off display needs Radeontool. DSS works with the ACPICPUThrottle package. PCMCIA slot isn't recognized and built-in ethernet works only with the hacked BCM driver. Everything else (sound/bluetooth/wifi/usb/whatever) just works as expected.
Battery life is poor tough, about 1 hour vs. 4 hours in windoze.

My friend bought Acer Travelmater 2423 few weeks ago, and it works like a charm. Everything from graphics (Intel GMA 900 & 1280*800 14.1") to WiFi (Atheros). Only downside of it is that it has Celeron 1.5Ghz CPU... But the price is nice... only 550 euro And it is quite well made, and it only weighs 2.3kg.

The MacBook is a laptop and it has full hardware support and acceleration.

Yes, MacBooks are good and I have one but I'd like a cheap light backup computer

Wondering if the lineup will change with new chips next month!

Doubtful, but for us builders, we should get more GPU and driver support.

Was thinking about a MB, or iMAC, but since I have a PC DAW AMD and my HACK which works with Final Cut and sees Digital Camera's, Camcorders, might just wait.

Would like a good MB. Personally, and this is my .03 cents, the MB and MBP lines need to be re-vamped with cooler chips, but anyway, the MBP should be the MB, backlit and all...and the MBP should be a dual duo core, then the tower line should be the quad duo core, but apple won't sell it that way, like intel, they will price gouge as much as they can until they can no longer either by way of OSX86 or licesing the OS to Dell, etc.

So your friends laptop has full graphics acceleration and doesn't have the external monitor startup issue?

Retroz,
I agree with you. My friend has a macbook and it has some problems and is in for repairs right now. He's using a hackintosh laptop right now as my backup. The lack of video acceleration sucks though.

Also,
How bad is this mouse tearing issue I keep hearing about? Does it interfere with the use of the laptop? Is there any fix?

I've Got a Mitac 8050D and it's fully compatible except for the Intel wireless Card

I've got an acer travelmate 4002wlmi with mobility 9700 64mb.
Works fine, qe and coregraphics, still can't get native widescreen res.

wifi and touchpad do not work on this model, as well as sleep function.
also sometimes the keyboard stops function.

cheers!

edit: got native wide screen with full accel! callisto driver=)

just wondering...how well would these laptops run in comparison with a macbook (reg, not pro)?

im planning on getting a laptop soon [college], but my parents gave me a huge rant when i asked them if i can have $1100 for a macbook...so i'm trying to find a temporary solution until i save up enough moola (and combine it with selling the hackintosh laptop) to get a real macbook.

HP dv2000t

I'm having to use my Installation DVD to boot up for now or else i get a b0 error. Reinstalling but my Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network w/ Bluetooth is not really working. Bluetooth shows up but i Do not have a device with which to test it. Ethernet and wifi not working. I don't know how to tell if the graphics acceleration is working, but I have not noticed a problem with it yet. Audio not working. Pretty disappointing, I may have to go back to windows until someone way smarter than me fixes some things.

edit: b0 error was a problem with setting a partition active. Thanks to the forums, my intel pro/100 ve ethernet is now working well. haven't messed around with audio yet. wireless sounds like a longshot, I may look into a replacement wireless card, although I payed an additional 10 dollars to include bluetooth with mine.

speed is impressive on the hackintoshes. They run very fast. I'm on one with a Pentium M 1.4 and it's MUCH snappier than my 1.66GHz PowerBook. After much review the chepest laptop with the best hardware support seems to be the HP Compaq NC6000, that is if you buy one used on eBay. Some tinkering may be in order to get all the hardware working perfect but I believe it can be done.

About your list, I have a Thinkpad T42, and it's not that hot when it comes to Hackintosh action. I had to do a lot of tweaks to get even OGL to work partially. The Thinkpad T60 on the other hand, with the integrated GMA 950 worked great out of the box, all I had to do was a minor tweak to get Sound to work and that's it, QE/CI were enabled by default, & I could enable Q2DE as well.

Thanks for you input, I've modified the list to reflect it.

hi there, this thread is great, I added a link to it in the wiki. however, I think we should make up something like a built hackintosh logo. having a guide for the right configuration for, say, the current dell, hp and toshiba models would really help this scene. just my $.02

I got the HP Compaq nc6000. It works well but not perfect. The sound craps out under heavy hard drive load. The audio shows up as Line Out and plugging headphones in leaves the internal speakers on, this can be remedied with USB headphones. Power management doesn't work without unplugging the battery and plugging it back in. The video isn't perfect the mouse leaves artifacts and other small ones pop up too. Most of the video problems can be remedied with mouse locator in always on mode with a custom locator image (transparent or a pic of the cursor). It's sooo nice to have video acceleration on a hackintosh. Make sure you have a genuine HP WiFi card. I believe the W400 W450 and W500 all work. I have the W450 which has a broadcom chip, its a little known secret that this card works with this laptop. The Intel WIFI card doesn't work with OS X and any other cards will cause a bios lock to halt the computer at boot. Power scaling doesn't work right for the longest time the computer would slow to a crawl without the power cord plugged in. Make sure power scaling is disabled in the bios. I can't think of any other issues right now. I'm very happy with this machine. It works better than my MacBook because it's not always dropping the wireless signal. I will keep looking for the perfect fully working hackbook. Please continue to post your experience with any fully working hackbook including full video acceleration and sound.

Don't waste your time/money getting a different brand wireless card. I just purchased a Dell 1390 mini PCI-e w/ Broadcom chipset for my dv2000t. However, after plugging in the new card you are likely to get a '104 - unsupported wireless card' BIOS boot error, which is HP's way of saying 'buy our expensive cards'.

I've been trying to play with BIOS modifications, similar to http://www.richud.com/HP-Pavilion-104-Bios-Fix and http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wi...rd-pci-ids.html to make my 1390 work in dv2000t. However, it seems that this unit has a very different bios structure, so applying the same type of mod won't be easy. Also, you risk making your new dv2000t a nice 5lb brick.

The is a fix for the Intel 900-950 laptops guys, you have to short out pins 1&6 and 2&12. this fixes the problem with laptops always wanting to boot to the external vga port. Once you got that working just go to your prefereces and mirror your screens. it works because im using it now

by the way, my hp nx6110 is fully working, wireless, QE and CI, Powermanagement hack and all.

This state is not true in some cases. Most hardware manufacturers in the US implement a whitelist in the BIOS of minipci cards. So you can just replace it. If you do and your laptop has the bios restrcition your SOL.

Cheers,
ed

Well everything kind of works with my HP NC6000 but the touchpad jumps around after the computer has been on for a while (could just be mine) and the wireless disconnects periodically. I love my 12" G4 PowerBook and I sold my macbook due to issues. The problems with the NC6000 are bugging me so I'm going to sell it and try the Acer Travelmate 2420. I'll report back with my findings.

I just got a HP Pavilion dv1708nr from Best Buy for $399 after INSTANT rebate. Works extremely well with JaS 10.4.6 after a couple kext edits and the Celeron M 410 shows as Core Solo in "About This Mac". GMA950, monitor works without the wire trick, High Def sound works(output only), broadcom wireless detected as Airport Extreme, Intel PRO 100 VE works, Matshita DVD-ROM/CDR-RW supported, trackpad works, sleep works, volume control and arrows work on the remote. Modem and Media Card reader do not work.

PowerManagement.bundle adds battery to tray.

hey skippy what kind of hd audio does you lappy have?

Check my specs below. It's certainly not the best but I'm quite satisfied so far. Music apps run smoothly with an M-audio FW-410 via firewire. In OSX I'm having less audio latency issues than in Linux or in - god forbid - XP...

Omni's ATI driver v008 works really well now even with QE and CI, apart from a bit of tearing. The only thing I would REALLY like to get sorted is the PCMCIA cos I've still got a few neat cards floating about.

cheers
sol

It is a Conexant High Def chip, not sure the exact model. VEN_14f1 DEV_5047 which is the same as the integrated (non-working) modem.

dang.... ive got sigmatel

Unless you have the non-Intel video versions. For instance, I have the ATI Mobility x1400 version

So QE works with your ATI x1400?

Almost everything is working (except WIFI - Intel Wireless 3945ABG and Audio In/Mic) with my Acer TravelMate 4202WLMi...

The full list:

. Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.66GHz (working splendidly)
. USB 2.0 ports (working flawlessly, but only after I got the BIOS 2.10 update from Acer!!! )
. GMA950 + LCD panel (flawlessly too, working out-of-box WITHOUT external VGA hack)
. Keyboard (working, currently using US-International keyboard layout [with dead keys for accents])
. DVD/CD Writer (working, full support to DVD+-R, DVD-RAM, CD+-R etc)
. High Definition Audio (working audio-out only, after editing AppleAzaliaAudio.kext)
. Broadcom 10/100 LAN (working)
. Battery/Power Info (working: remaining battery time is displayed correctly, charging info is displayed nicely, sleep function ok too...)
. Internal 56Kbps Fax/Modem (What the hell is a modem???? LOL )

Cheers...

Paulo Oliveira

i have IBM THinkpad Z60T - and averything work fine on it.
full video support (GMA900, with vga dongle), wi-fi (en0 > en1), lan (drivers kext edit), BT, touchpad, audio.

Hey Paulo, what type of HDA do you have? would you mind sharing? Also to everyone, id like to see some examples of folks vga dongles. All i did was cut a couple of paperclips to size and bridged the vga pins then covered it with a vga cover.

Those laptops you guys mentioned range between $500 to $700. This makes me think, should I wait a bit longer and wait until core 2 duo notebooks get cheaper or should I just get one of those mentioned earlier? (currently the core 2 duo notebooks are priced $1000 ish)

I am fairly happy with my Acer Travelmate 4202WLMi
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=196993

If only I can get Wi-Fi
A laptop is pretty pointless without Wi-Fi

My Acer TravelMate 3012 WTMI works fine, but without wi-fi support (#$%!% intel pro) and sound needs some kext messing but QE CI works stright from the hand, and natively on the build in lcd 12,1 1280x800

hi there net, I'm about to buy one of the 3012, where did you get yours? it's kind of hard to find.
do a search for 3012, I've done quite a few threads about it. you can get a mini pci wifi card from dell for 20 bucks on ebay, though I'm not sure it is not hardware locked in bios...
could you post the sound kext meesing instructions?

thanks!!

If theres any bios options for WiFi I don't think you could just plug-and-play without flashing the bios with a custom hexed flash

well, the only way to find out about the wifi is popping a DELL card somewhere and see if it works!

NET, do you have bluetooth working too??

Samsung X20 fully working except for WiFi ( Intel 2200) and I can't get the synaptics Trackpad to scroll despite alle the "beta" drivers flying around here.

Compaq Evo N800C

Method: Native Install Generic OSX86 Install

CPU: P4 1.7ghz (SSE2) RAM: 256mb Everything is working except iTunes and iChat (low memory...) gotta get me some more RAM!

i have an HP pavillion dv4000 that works pretty good. The only things that won't work are itunes, quicktime and then the built in wireless. Everything else works great though.

Cheap Ass Everex 2050T ($700). I never expected this lappy to work but behold!!
Full Accelaration and support (well no modem).

Running Jas 10.4.8 Beta 2 (release 2)
Intel GMA950 Working
ALC260 Sound Card Working
Ralink WIFI Card Working
Realtek 81XX NIC Working

Modem Not Working
Wakeup After sleep not working

For 700 bucks.!! I can buy 2-3 macbooks.

ppan76,

I have the SA2050T and I spent days trying to get the sound working. How did you get it working?

Thanks,
Jacob

I have 2 friends that are looking to sell their avertecs... Both of them have the 6xxx series... but i think once has a 6600 and a 6100 so anyone who is interested in purchasing these laptops in top notch condition let me know. The pricing is neogotiable

bump

here you go - an updated sticker that says"I work with OS X"

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EDIT: edited for spelling.

Not to be a nag, but it's spelled "Compatible"

hahaha, i KNEW i should have checked it. Thanks

anyone an idea on support for the HP nc8430 ???

Thanks in advance

Currently trying to get JAs10.4.8 installed on a lenovo x60 ( no luck so far )