Kupo! Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I'm looking to buy a 17" laptop for ~£700 that has good OSx86 compatibility. I've found on the wiki that Dell Inspiron 1720s are a pretty good match, apart from resolution change (do they mean can't change after boot, or can't change at all?), but I'm apprehensive about Dells as my friends' Dell laptops always break. I'd be happier with a Toshiba, but the models on the compatibility list aren't available in the UK? I can only see L and P series. Would something like this be suitable? http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi...ODUCT_ID=150240 I've also found this: http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/products/Produc...&GroupCode= which seems like a pretty good spec at a reasonable price. Can anyone recommend some other models based on personal experience? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackfrancis75 Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 I had a Dell Inspiron 9400 17" which I recently sold, but I was running Kaly 10.4.2 on it with just about everything working OOB. And it never broke on me. Just my experience.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-827765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Would something like this be suitable?http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi...ODUCT_ID=150240 I've also found this: http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/products/Produc...&GroupCode= which seems like a pretty good spec at a reasonable price. Can anyone recommend some other models based on personal experience? The first Toshiba I'm not sure about whether the ATI 3470 graphics card will besupported with acceleration with the Triakis drivers of netkas. The Zoostorm notebook looks promising, but it's not known whether sound and networking will work, although there are USB solutions to those problems.Working laptops that I can see in this Wiki HCL include the Inspiron 1720, Vostro 1700/1710, HP DV9xxx series (there's a thread for these) Of course there will be other notebooks that work, which aren't listed in the Wiki Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-828042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kupo! Posted July 22, 2008 Author Share Posted July 22, 2008 Okay so I've narrowed it down to two models: Dell 1720 £629 Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB) 17.0" Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display with TrueLife™ 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048+1x1024] 320GB (5.400rpm) SATA Hard Drive nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software HP DV9820EA £599 AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 Level 2 cache 512 KB + 512 KB 17" WXGA+ High Definition BrightView Widescreen 1440 x 900 3072 MB RAM NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS 256MB 3D Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound 16 bit integrated SATA Hard Disk Drive 250 GB 5400 rpm So the main difference between the two models is AMD CPU vs Intel CPU and Geforce 8400 GS vs 8600 GT. Is there a significant difference in performence between these components under OSX? Both work fine with osx86 right? Is there any advantage of going with the dual hard drives on the Inspirton and trying to boot off them seperately? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-829140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyzerblayd Posted November 24, 2008 Share Posted November 24, 2008 So which did you get and how did it work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-976668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 My sig ?* Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-977364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
360freak Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nick14, what version of OS X are you running in your sig, and are the graphics accelerated? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-977691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kupo! Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 Got the Inspiron 7200 and everything works, apart from wifi. Got a cheap netgear usb stick to fix that though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/116882-best-17-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-977701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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