Lakshay Verma Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 First of all, Hello everyone. I've just joined Insanely Mac(and cleared a couple of fairly simple quizzes before I could actually post this). Basically, I am a student residing in India where Apple products aren't as cheap as what you could get in U.S. or Singapore. The 15' Macbook Pro range starts from about $2000(even after student discounts its somewhere near $1850 or so) here which makes it quite unaffordable and unrealistic for me. Therefore, I am looking for some Notebook/Laptop that can be Hackintoshed to provide almost similar to original Mac experience, if not identical. Anything that costs $1000(Rs. 50,000) or lesser and meets the above requirements would do good. Ofcourse, I cannot expect a Hackintosh to work flawlessly out of the box, but yes, I need something that would require minimum tweaking or messing with kexts etc and something that is stable, reliable and fairly usable. Looking forward to helpful replies. Edit: I forgot to mention, I would be dual booting OS X and Windows7 even though I would be spending 80% of the time with OS X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHIT Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 You could go with the HP ProBook. Here's a post that tells you how to install: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=259&t=41546 The laptop that they use goes for around $530 on Amazon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshay Verma Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 I contacted HP, Looks great so far. Though it is always better to have more options in hand. More suggestions anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshay Verma Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 More suggestions would be highly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiking Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 hi lakshay see this Sony Vaio VPCEH25EN http://wiki.osx86pro...ables#VPCEH25EN its cost in india is about 35000 rupees i guess may be less also check on local stores ;; 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshay Verma Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 hi lakshay see this Sony Vaio VPCEH25EN http://wiki.osx86pro...ables#VPCEH25EN its cost in india is about 35000 rupees i guess may be less also check on local stores ;; I've always been a great fan of Sony Vaio series. Though 1 thing that I'd like to know is whether it is fully compatible or if it isn't then what are the unsupported features? Sounds promising, even though I'd prefer something i5/i7 with some 500gb HDD. Does it have other hackintosh compatible variants like Hp Probook series?(They have a good no. of notebooks in probook series that run almost flawlessly) Else, White Vaio notebook is a win win for me. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiking Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 hmmm then it would not come in ur budget i guess just go through the wiki here u ll get an idea of which components will work which will not based on that u can go to the place where they sell laptops u can consult the person there ..n don t ever make a mistake of buying a laptop with ATi gfx card i m not able to install lion or sL ( ..i m not sure it has other variants sorry i m not an expert i m just helping u find the one thats easy to install.hard disk u can always upgrade same goes for ram i guess i3 will suffice ur needs id u are not into high level gaming video editing professional etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakshay Verma Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 Hmm, I see. I'm not into professional video editing or hardcore gaming, But yeah, I am into decent gaming you could say. I'm pretty much convinced with these two options though. Thanks alot for your valuable inputs. Just one thing more..Will a laptop be mountain lion compatible if it is compatible with Lion? Or should I wait for its release and then buy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiking Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 i think the ones compatible with lion should work well with mLion because the hardware support is increasing getting better in Ml as i read through this forum core2duo is not supported i guess all the i series should work imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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