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[Lotustar]

I have a Dell Inspiron 1000 notebook and have tried a million times to install Mac OS on it. Every distro I have tried fails. Even tried iPortable Snow. All a no go. I found one post online where a guy said he got Tiger installed but he left no instructions. Does anyone have ANY ideas how to make OS X work on this Dell? There has to be a way to do it. Here is the specs:

CPU: Mobile Intel® Celeron® Processor at 2.20 GHz with on-die 256 KB L2 cache and 400MHz front side bus.
Memory: 256 or 512 MB shared DDR SDRAM, 266MHz bus frequency
Storage: 30 or 40 GB Ultra ATA hard drive
VideoChip(s): SiS M650 Integrated Graphics - 32MB shared DDR SDRAM [14.1" XGA TFT active-matrix display with 1024 x 768 resolution]
SiS M650 Integrated Graphics - 64MB shared DDR SDRAM
[15" XGA TFT active-matrix display with 1024 x 768 resolution]
Optical Devices: Fixed CD Burner/ DVD Combo Drive: 24x/10x/24x CD-RW and 8x DVD-ROM.
Ports: 3-USB 2.0, Video: 15-pin monitor connector, 10/100 Ethernet LAN: RJ-45 connector, Modem: RJ-11 connector, Audio jacks: Microphone in connector and stereo speakers/headphone connector, No parallel, serial or S-Video ports.
Display: 14.1" XGA display: Height: 1.46" (37.2 mm)
Slots: Connectors: (1) Type I or Type II card, 3V / 5 V cards supported.
Modem: Internal 56K capable v.92 Fax modem.
Network Interface: Integrated 10/100 Ethernet.
Sound: Integrated stereo sound.

[Lotustar]

Bump!

[bbeepp]

Bump!

Don't bother. There are no drivers for SiS M650.
512 MB shared with GFX is too small for for Snow or Leopard.
Your CPU is also out of date and I think OSX requires at last two cores.

[Lotustar]

Yea that's what I thought. Oh well. It's just an old dusty notebook I had lying around and thought maybe it would work. Thanks so much for the reply though! ;-)