balev2020 Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Has anyone tried the Snow Leopard install on the new A2 from iiView. For the past two weeks, I've been seeing these MacBook Air clones on ebay. gizmodo and other gadget sights were saying that we probably wouldn't see them in the US, but they are here. 12 inch screen and under 3lbs. Ebay Link 320gb HDD and 2GB memory..wireless N and mini-HDMI..interesting Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191730-snow-leopard-on-a-macbook-air-clone/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacModifier Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 Has anyone tried the Snow Leopard install on the new A2 from iiView. For the past two weeks, I've been seeing these MacBook Air clones on ebay. gizmodo and other gadget sights were saying that we probably wouldn't see them in the US, but they are here. 12 inch screen and under 3lbs. Ebay Link 320gb HDD and 2GB memory..wireless N and mini-HDMI..interesting Here is a great video review on this laptop. Here is another article comparing it to the Air. http://www.liliputing.com/2009/07/iiview-a...s-clothing.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191730-snow-leopard-on-a-macbook-air-clone/#findComment-1296680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibendum Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 I have one of these. ~$430 shipped. After two full days of struggling with this (there's an upside to the down economy - no work) with every Hackintosh expert I know, and I finally figured it out late the other night. The main stumbling block is this: you need to change the BIOS setting for the USB 2.0 Controller Mode from HiSpeed to FullSpeed... Then grab yourself a USB drive (ramstick or HD), restore your Snow Leopard Install DVD to it using Disk Utility on your Mac or Hack (hint: it will probably go faster if you save an image of your DVD, then restore from the image). Then download NetbookBootMaker, run it to process your USB drive, plug it into the iiView A2, press F11 at boot and select your USB drive. It will take a while to boot (to see what it's doing, you can enter -v as a boot option. Couple of things. My install hung at the very end. Said 10 minutes remaining. I left it all night. Finally forced a reboot the next morning. I had to go into finder preferences to get the hard drive showing up on the desktop. And I'm not really fond of NetbookBoot's way of installing all the kexts into the Extra/Extensions.mkext - a script is provided for this. But for now, it was the easiest way. I haven't gotten audio working yet, and I ordered a Broadcom 4321 from eBay to replace the Atheros wifi. More as it develops... Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191730-snow-leopard-on-a-macbook-air-clone/#findComment-1334795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
madlyrotating Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 some of these Macbook Air clones def run Snow Leopard: http://gizchina.com/2010/02/27/ultimate-ma...h-snow-leopard/ Not sure on the quality and limitations though. I have SL running on my wifes Lenovo S10 and it works really well apart from sleep. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/191730-snow-leopard-on-a-macbook-air-clone/#findComment-1419075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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