urip Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Well, I installed a hackintosh (iPC 10.5.6) on a Dell Vostro 1720. I used (this) USB flash drive as the installation drive. Everything works fine - except one thing: The hackintosh is very slow. Any idea why? Is it because of the flash drive? :confused: I have ideneb 10.5.5 on another PC, installed on a Verbatim 300GB portable USB hard drive, and it's really fast in that one. Also, is there a way to check that the processor's cores are both working? and that all 4GB of RAM is used correctly? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190166-slow-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 Well, the main problem about USB flash drives is READ/WRITE speed. Read speed may be relatively good, but the write speed is always much lower. The other thing is a disk size. OS X need some free space to run properly, so 8G might not be enough. The same performance issue is observed with XP installed on to flash drive. If you want a good speed use portable HDD or an internal HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190166-slow-hackintosh/#findComment-1288689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
urip Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 Well, the main problem about USB flash drives is READ/WRITE speed. Read speed may be relatively good, but the write speed is always much lower. The other thing is a disk size. OS X need some free space to run properly, so 8G might not be enough. The same performance issue is observed with XP installed on to flash drive. If you want a good speed use portable HDD or an internal HDD. It might really be the problem, but I looked at the system profiler and found these suspicious details: Hardware (parent node): There was an error while gathering this information. Diagnostics: Result: Passed Graphics/Displays: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS... Memory: There was an error while gathering this information. Seems there's a problem with the RAM, maybe with the CPU, too. Any idea what might be causing that? Maybe that's a chipset problem? thanks!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190166-slow-hackintosh/#findComment-1315291 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vilpostus Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 It's most likely an AppleSMBIOS problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190166-slow-hackintosh/#findComment-1315497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacktabby Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Well, I installed a hackintosh (iPC 10.5.6) on a Dell Vostro 1720. I used (this) USB flash drive as the installation drive. Everything works fine - except one thing: The hackintosh is very slow. Any idea why? Is it because of the flash drive? :confused: I have ideneb 10.5.5 on another PC, installed on a Verbatim 300GB portable USB hard drive, and it's really fast in that one. Also, is there a way to check that the processor's cores are both working? and that all 4GB of RAM is used correctly? It could be that you are using a hacked distro of leopard. You should go out and buy the $29 snow leopard upgrade disk. Follow this guide: http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow...acking-required If you get an error using the EP45UD3P Snow Leopard install package download: http://netbook-installer.googlecode.com/fi...3%20RC3.app.zip Make sure you install to your USB drive not a real mac. Or the real mac will not boot. Then install on your hackintosh after. Not real mac! P.S. You will need to borrow someones mac with Tiger and above installed for about 2 hours. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/190166-slow-hackintosh/#findComment-1315521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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