scott90 Posted August 9, 2008 Share Posted August 9, 2008 I am curious. What laptop under 700 can run leopard flawlessly. (wifi,sound, screen and etc.) Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tso Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 I am curious. What laptop under 700 can run leopard flawlessly. (wifi,sound, screen and etc.) Thanks If you find one let me know. I have been looking and reading and trying to sort through to find a laptop that I could buy and start messing with leopard. I wish someone would keep a recent page or answer your question. Good Luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EP3hatch03 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 It will be Dell Inspiron 1525, i have one and everything works other than the Ethernet and the card reader which i don't use. You can read eveyrthing about the laptop here: http://www.espressoreport.com/83/dell-insp...k-pro-tutorial/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selayan Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 That's odd, a propriatery dell would work fine with leopard.. but the desktops and xps series have more trouble. Mostly due to because dell uses ATA for their hard drives and ICH for the cd/dvd drives. So sometimes the distro will install but then you get a no root device error when booting from the hard drive. Also not many options available in the bios. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richboy455 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Thats strange, I have a Latitude D820 and i cant even get past the configuration screen during the initial launch. It installs fine but it LAGS SO MUCH that you cant even use it. I have tried iAtkos, Kalyway, and iDeneb and get the same thing everytime Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS197768 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Perfectly there is only 1 solution. Buy a second hand macbook/ibook/powerbook. In all other cases you might come close. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005477 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Hell, my Dell Mini9 will run circles around any G4 MacBook or iBook.. And for a lot less money than those things go for used. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxzone Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Go for Acer Aspire 3680! Everything works fine than 56k Modem and CardReader.. GMA950 > Working! Yukon Ethernet > Working, need some patches Broadcom Wireles > Working as an AirPort PCMCIA Slot > Working, need some patches CD Burning > Working 2-Finger Scrolling > Working, need some patches Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1005688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 If that Aspire laptop uses the same card reader (some JMicron based unit) as the Aspire One does, there is a driver for the card reader now.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1006343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRDELUNAIII Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 My opinion would be to try and find any laptop that has the PM965 chipset as I believe that the last generation MacBook used it also, and if you want to get a little more video performance like the MacBook Pro, get a laptop with the PM965 and any of the supported video cards. In the begining of the year, I had an MSI GX600 with a Nvidia 8600M GT and 90% of it worked out of the box with Kalyway 10.5.1. I even upgraded mine with an Intel Extreme X7800 CPU overclocked to 2.9 GHz !!! I would think that more of it would work now with the advances made in OSX86 in the last few months. I hope this helps. God Bless Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1006554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsu_aggie Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 If that Aspire laptop uses the same card reader (some JMicron based unit) as the Aspire One does, there is a driver for the card reader now.. What disto of OS X did you install on the mini 9? Was it Kalyway, Leo4all or something else? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1006769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnaClocker Posted December 20, 2008 Share Posted December 20, 2008 The Mini9 has it's own customized Boot132 setup. http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/howto-inst...132--t1106.html If you can get the Mini9 to boot off a CD, I dare say it's idiot proof.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1006778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
general_tso Posted December 21, 2008 Share Posted December 21, 2008 My opinion would be to try and find any laptop that has the PM965 chipset as I believe that the last generation MacBook used it also, and if you want to get a little more video performance like the MacBook Pro, get a laptop with the PM965 and any of the supported video cards. In the begining of the year, I had an MSI GX600 with a Nvidia 8600M GT and 90% of it worked out of the box with Kalyway 10.5.1. I even upgraded mine with an Intel Extreme X7800 CPU overclocked to 2.9 GHz !!! I would think that more of it would work now with the advances made in OSX86 in the last few months. I hope this helps. God Bless Hack book Pro?? Is there anything out there that would work close or better than a mac book pro.. with 512 mb graphics card. I really want some power for video editing, photo, and gaming with a webcam. I just can't spend like 3k for it? Anyone got one working well or know of a laptop near or less than 1,500. I appreciate it so much. God Bless you all! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/120101-perfect-hackintosh-laptop/#findComment-1008468 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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