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Which installation I should use for a Hp Dv9030us? any idea? Its a Intel chip. Zavijava makes it works perfectly, he said that in a post in this thread. iATKOS v1 or kalyway?

 

any patcher?

 

thanks friends

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Anyone tried Alienware 51m 5750i ? I've search the posts and can't see where anyone has tried it yet. I've been working on it. The biggest challenge appears to be the VIA Raid controller. You can boot the Leo V3 DVD OK but can't see any internal drives. If you connect an external USB drive, you can install OK. but can't boot from the USB (I did check the boot order) . If you remove the internal raid drives and install the OS you installed on the USB pocket drive into the laptop , you can start to boot OK but reach a point where it stops and is waiting. I'm still working on it.

 

Processor Core Duo 2.33

Intel Calistoga 945PM + ICH7-M chipset with Audio

BIOS AMI PnP APM 1.2 ACPI 2.0

667Mhz Frontside Bus

ATI X1800 Mobility 1920x1200 WUXGA (ATI)

Wireless LAN Intel PRO 3945ABG

BlueTooth CSR BC04-ROM

Ethernet LAN Realtek 8110 10/100/1000

1394 Firewire TI TSB43AB22A

RAID/Storage VIA VT6421A

Express Card Reader Genesys GL817E-10

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Hel Elgomez, (hablas español?? x q es mas facil para mi, soy d mexico) well i'm not a expert in osx86, but i prefer Kalyway for my self experience... I have installed leopard with kalyway and i cant with iAtkos. Too Kalyway is faster in the torrent download!

Good Luck,,

PS. si sabes español dime, y corrigeme, Gracias!

 

Which installation I should use for a Hp Dv9030us? any idea? Its a Intel chip. Zavijava makes it works perfectly, he said that in a post in this thread. iATKOS v1 or kalyway?

 

any patcher?

 

thanks friends

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Hi all, this is my first post, great forum!!!

 

Here my spec:

 

IBM T60 2623-d7u

 

Cpu T2500 Core Duo >> SystemProf see as Core Solo 1mb cache. System monitoring see the two cores and all be seems ok.

Ram 3gb >> ok

Video X1400 >> Working great after patching x1000.kext and boot.plist

WiFI Chip Atheros a/b/g >> Works great after patching IO802family kext

BT >> Work out of the box

Ethernet >> out of the box

Battery >> Works with powermanagement.kext

Audio HD >> Works only out and headphone with azalia.pkg

PCMCIA >> Not tested yet

Trackpoint >> out of the box

 

Leopard ToH RC2

 

Bye and sorry if my english is so bad!

 

How did you manage to get the X1400 to work?

Can you give me your kext file and the thing I have to do?

Thanks!

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Tecra A7-ST7712

-Mac OSX 10.4.8 (Jas Intel SSE3 w/patches dvd)

-Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz(7200) shows as 200Mhz FSB instead of 667Mhz,but both cores enabled

-Atheros 5006 A/B/G wireless (works)

-Intel 1000 ethernet (works)

-ICH7 Intel Sata 100 HD (works)

-WXGA Nvidia Geforce NVS 300M 1280X800 QE/CI (works w/Titan.kext)

-ALC862 Realtek HD audio (semi-works w/AzaliaAudio.pkg.zip)

-Power (works w/powermgmt.bundle battery status and sleep)

-USB (works)

-Firewire (works)

-Multi-DVD (works)

-Bluetooth (not detected)

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Hi can anyone confirm some information about Lenovo Thinkpad R61 /R61i or Asus F3SG about compatibility

 

Thinkpad R61

Processor

Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 / 2.4 GHz

 

Chipset Type

Mobile Intel PM965 Express

 

RAM

1 GB / 3 GB (max)

Technology

DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz

Memory Specification Compliance

PC2-5300

 

Hard Drive

160 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm

 

Graphics Processor / Vendor

NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M PCI Express x16

Video Memory

128 MB

Audio Output

Sound card

Compliant Standards

High Definition Audio

 

Wireless NIC

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Data Link Protocol

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g

Compliant Standards

IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g

 

Interfaces

3 x Hi-Speed USB - 4 PIN USB Type A 1 x display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) 1 x modem - phone line - RJ-11 1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45 1 x microphone - input - mini-phone 3.5mm 1 x headphones - output - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm 1 x docking / port replicator 1 x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) - 4 PIN FireWire

 

ThinkPad R61i

 

Basically the same but 15'4 with WSXGA 1680 x 1050 (16:10) display and 2 GB of ram.

 

Asus F3SG

Processor

Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 / 2.0 GHz

 

Chipset Type

Mobile Intel PM965

 

RAM

3 GB/4GB

 

DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz

Memory Specification Compliance

PC2-5300

 

Hard Drive

320 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm

 

Graphics Processor / Vendor

NVIDIA 9300M

Video Memory

256 MB

Audio Output

Sound card

Compliant Standards

High Definition Audio

 

Wireless NIC

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG

Data Link Protocol

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g

Compliant Standards

IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g

 

TV tuner

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I am using iPC on Acer Travelmate 5620. Everything working more than fine here except the webcam (orbicam) and wifi.. Otherwise full graphics QE, QGL and CI on my nvidia go 7300 using NVinstaller_v.52.pkg . I am a photographer so Aperture, LR and Photoshop cs2 working fine and fast.

I also have problems with hibernate and sleep.

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MSI Wind U100-432US, I've had mine for a month or so now and with a few small tweaks almost EVERYTHING works! Only remaining issues are:

 

1. Some models which ship with the .03 vs the .02 firmware webcam (Bisoncam) don't work in certain programs (ichat works i believe), although using a 3rd party add on program, "CamTwist" you can get Skype to work.

 

2. The built-in audio input (mic) and headphone jack don't work although the speaker sound works fine (using a small utility you can switch the output from speakers to headphone jack but then if you want to use speakers you have to switch it back)

 

I believe those are the only two remaining problems. I am using Vanilla kernel with all of the latest updates. To get airport to work I swapped out the WiFi card, although the stock one DOES work, with a special utility (rather than airport)

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Hi all:

 

I have a Toshiba A 305-S6852, which I purchased on sale during Xmas rush for $489 at OfficeMax (normaly $1099, although it has been superceded by new models and can probably be had cheep - especially since Circuit City is having big going out of business sale through March).

 

Configuration:

 

ACPI Compliant x64 PC

Processor - Intel Core 2 (Conroe 65 nm) Duo T5750 running @2.0 GHZ - Recognized in "About this Mac" (unfortunately, although this chip has the EMT-64 tech, it does not include Intel VT virtualization technology, which will slow down somewhat the performance of VMs under Parallels or VMWare's Fusion)

Display Adapter - Intel GMA X3100 - Supported out of Box (with occasional glitch in loading)

includes S-Video and VGA external ports. VGA port works, don't know about S-Video.

Chipset - Intel ICH8 Family, includes:

Intel ICH8M Ultra ATA controller (for Optical Drive) - supported

Intel ICH8M E/M SATA AHCI controller for Hard Disk - supported

Ricoh 4in1 Memory Card Controller - supported (with modified kext)

SDA compliant SD Card Host Controller - supported (with modified kext)

Ricoh OCHI Compliant Firewire 1394A Controller (4 pin) ;), supported

Ricoh Express Cardbus Controller - supported (with modified kext, but with occasional KP)

Disk Drive - Fujitsu MNY2200BH - 200GB - recognized out of Box using unpatched kext

Optical Drive - +/- DL DVD Burner Pioneer (ATA attached) - recognized out of Box using unpatched kext

Imagining Device - Chicony USB 2.0 Webcam - supported in some apps, not in others

Standard Qwerty PS2 (!) Keyboard - supported by unmodified kext

Synaptics TouchPad - supported (with gestures!) by modified kext

Toshiba WinModem - typical, crappy software modem incl in most Win Laptops - not supported

Realtek 10/100 Base Fast Ethernet Controller - supported by Psystar modified kext (RealtekR1000.kext)

Sound Realtek ALC268 HD Audio - supported (modified AppleHDAudio.kexc circulating under New ALC268 driver)

HighSpeed USB Intel ICH8 Family USB Controller, includes:

USB 1.0 (5 ports)

USB 2.0 (4 ports)

 

The lappy has a 15.4 inch screen with max res of 1280x800, down to 800x500. It has a nice pair of Harmon/Kardon speakers, which sound great if a little soft. It also has a series of touch sensitive buttons above the function keys. These do not function under OS X. All other ports (4xUSB, 1xFirewire400, 1xVGA, 1xCardbus, 1x4in1MediaCardReader, 1xHeadphone, 1xmic) work, including mute of H/K speakers when headphones/ear buds are plugged in.

 

Display and video are very fluid with no apparent tearing or other artifacts. Resolution easily adjusted through System Preferences and the Display icon on the taskbar. Images are sharper and more intensely colored than in Windows Vista. Quartz and Core Image both enabled upon installation. Q2dE can be enabled using OSxTools included in most distros. The only negative is that occasionally, maybe once in ten to fifteen reboots, the video driver doesn't load properly. This doesn't appear to be related to the external monitor syndrome seen in many laptops with GMA 900/950/3000/3100. The external display shows the same image as the laptop lcd, either the desktop or a simple clear blue screen. I've tried all sorts of combos and still haven't figured out what causes it. Generally a reboot or two brings things back. This is still a mystery.

 

Sound works great. If you use the stock ACL268 kext, you will get the sound routed to the headphone jack at first boot. This is easily switched back in the Sound Control Panel. If you install the so-called newALC268 included in the new XxX 10.5.6 distro, sound works from the get go.

 

Wired networking is fully enabled after installing the Psystar kext for the Realktek RTL 8102E Fast Ethernet Controller. The extension is labelled RealtekR1000.kext. I got it from the XxX 10.5.6 distro, although you can probably download it from the Support/Downloads section of Psystar's website. My wireless card, Intel ProWireless WiFi 4965 a,g,n is a bit trickier. The iwi developers are working to code functional drivers for Intel's wireless offerings. So far, the 2000 and 2100 are working, but the 3965 and 4965 only partially so. The 4965 driver (http://code.google.com/p/iwidarwin/) loads, recognizes the card but that's it. There is an included applet for initializing the card and then selecting a network. It works sometimes, but mostly not. Also, even when working, you can only connect to unencrypted networks. There is no method for sending passwords to log onto unencrypted networks. My solution has been to buy and Atheros (or Broadcom) USB dongle for which there are fully working drivers. These are recognized as Airport or Airport Extreme cards and function fully as such.

 

There are a few additional nice touches, such as an accessible hard disk (which I swapped out for a 500 GB Seagate drive), two RAM slots (DDR2800, both of which are maxed out with 2GB RAM sticks), and a slot for a second battery! And, for a PC laptop, the design is nice as well.

 

Thus, for $500 and another 30 for a USB WiFi dongle, you can purchase of a laptop that rivals recent Macbooks. For example, my Toshiba registers a Geekbench score of 2856, which is comparable to the scores of recent Macbooks (2580-2750) and close to Macbook Pros (3100-3300). I'm very happy!

 

A word on installation. I have had greatest success with the iDeneb3 (10.5.5) and the XxX 10.5.6 Leo distros. The graphics kexts loaded in the iDeneb are less touchy for some reason, so I use this as a base install and then install the AppleATA, ALC268new and RealtekR1000 kexts from the XxX distro for my final, fully functional system. This is a triple-boot system with a Vista partition and a second, small OS X partition (which I boot into for housekeeping/troubleshooting my main OS X partition). If anyone has this or a similar model, and needs help getting OS X up and running, drop me an e-mail and I'll be glad to help. Hope this helps those of you looking for a OS X compatible notebook.

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I've been digging through this forum for a while now, and it seems there are no laptops that run OSX without any problems.

 

Anyone got sleep to work properly? Sound and ethernet/wifi are also often problematic, but may work depending on the chipset. It seems the ATI mobility HD video series should be avoided.

 

I'm considering the Samsung R510-FS08:

 

Processor: Core 2 Duo processor T5800 (2,0 GHz, 800 MHz, 2 MB)

Chipset: Intel PM45 + ICH9M

Graphics: Mobile Intel 45 Express (internal) / nVIDIA NB9M-GE (external) (nVIDIA GeForce Go 9200M GS)

Lan: Marvell Gigabit Ethernet

Wlan: Atheros 802,11b/g

Sound: ALC262-GR

 

From what I gathered here it *seems* like all this could be made to work with OSX. Apart from sleep probably. Any thoughts?

 

EDIT: after some more research, the Intel PM45 chipset is a question mark as Apple have switched to Nvidia MCP79. But at least someone got it to work: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=133463

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hello everyone.

 

finally ive pulled myself to go and buy a laptop and have ordered a Acer Aspire 7730G

ive been running both Tiger and Leo on one of my stationary machines and am going to try and get leo on the 7730.

specs are below, does anyone know any particular pitfalls and things to do and not do with installing Leo on it?

 

 

Produktbeskrivning Acer Aspire 7730G-584G32MN - Core 2 Duo T5800 2 GHz - 17" TFT Dimensioner (BxDxH) 40.2 cm x 29.7 cm x 4.4 cm Vikt 3.8 kg Systemtyp Notebook Inbyggda enheter Stereohögtalare, bashögtalare, trådlös LAN-antenn Processor Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 / 2 GHz ( med dubbelkärna ) Cacheminne L2-cache RAM 4 GB (installerad) / 4 GB (max) - DDR2 SDRAM ( 2 x 2 GB ) Kortläsare 5 i 1 Hårddisk 320 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm Optisk lagring DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM - integrerad Display 17" TFT 1440 x 900 ( WXGA+ ) - 24 bitar (16,7 miljoner färger) Grafikstyrenhet NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS - 512 MB Ljudutgång Ljudkort Telecom Fax / modem - 56 Kbps Nätverksfunktioner Nätverkskort - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n (draft) Notebook-kamera Inbyggd - 0,3 megapixel

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My definition of fully working means that graphics work perfectly with QE and CI, audio, touchpad, usb, and ethernet must work too. WIFI isn't as critical because anyone can replace their MiniPCI WIFI card with a cheap compatible replacement card. It seems to me that the ATI Radeon 9600 is the only truely working graphics chip. This is because the chip is used in genuine apples so it is fully supported. My friend has two hackintoshes, a macbook, and a powerbook. He wants a fully working hackintosh for under $400 and I think it can be done with some help from eBay and this scene. Here is my list of budget laptops which use the ATI Radeon 9600. My reasearch indicates that everything else should work on these too--confirmation needed.

Gateway

  • M505
  • M505X
  • 7405GX
  • 7422GX

eMachines

  • M6805
  • M6809
  • M6811

HP / Compaq

  • NC6000 - commented on below

Averatec

  • 5500 (AV5500)
  • 6100 (AV6000)

IBM Thinkpad

  • T60

Please post comments regarding the use of these laptops or just your thoughts. It would be useful for us to put together a list of inexpensive fully working OSX86 compatible laptops. Also, I noticed that Apple also uses ATI Radeon 9700 chips. Has anyone tried using a laptop with the 9700?

 

TOSHIBA TECRA A6 tried with JaS 10.4.8 and iDeneb 10.5.5) - only Wifi not work, Sleep (using Belkin instead)

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I have purchased a Gateway M505. I saw on your list of notebooks that this was one you felt was doable. I have had no problems getting iDeneb to load. My problem is it will not boot. Any suggestions?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My definition of fully working means that graphics work perfectly with QE and CI, audio, touchpad, usb, and ethernet must work too. WIFI isn't as critical because anyone can replace their MiniPCI WIFI card with a cheap compatible replacement card. It seems to me that the ATI Radeon 9600 is the only truely working graphics chip. This is because the chip is used in genuine apples so it is fully supported. My friend has two hackintoshes, a macbook, and a powerbook. He wants a fully working hackintosh for under $400 and I think it can be done with some help from eBay and this scene. Here is my list of budget laptops which use the ATI Radeon 9600. My reasearch indicates that everything else should work on these too--confirmation needed.

Gateway

  • M505
  • M505X
  • 7405GX
  • 7422GX

eMachines

  • M6805
  • M6809
  • M6811

HP / Compaq

  • NC6000 - commented on below

Averatec

  • 5500 (AV5500)
  • 6100 (AV6000)

IBM Thinkpad

  • T60

Please post comments regarding the use of these laptops or just your thoughts. It would be useful for us to put together a list of inexpensive fully working OSX86 compatible laptops. Also, I noticed that Apple also uses ATI Radeon 9700 chips. Has anyone tried using a laptop with the 9700?

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Add my laptop :D Everything is WORKING PERFECTLY! But when I close the lip the screen doesn't go black...It's not critical but a little bit annoying ;)

 

HP 550 - Intel Celeron version (Didn't try Core 2 Duo version). HW is in sign ;) I wrote a guide too...

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What amazes me over and over again that almost none of you guys ever indicate the screen size ... that's the first most important parameter - when considering buying a laptop one FIRST decides on the size, then come the other parameters ...

 

It would make sooo much more sense to have a dedicated subforum for iHacks/ HackBooks here and then single threads in that subforum for e.g. 17", 15" and below 15" ....

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Not for me. I don't care about screen-size...Infact I would have preferred a 13.3" or a Netbook (8.9/10) but they are not powerful enough (unless you can spend thousands of euros for a Sony Vaio...). So CPU, RAM and Wifi-Card are the most important hardware spec.

Anyway mine is 15.4"...Like 90% of commercial laptops...

 

What amazes me over and over again that almost none of you guys ever indicate the screen size ... that's the first most important parameter - when considering buying a laptop one FIRST decides on the size, then come the other parameters ...

 

It would make sooo much more sense to have a dedicated subforum for iHacks/ HackBooks here and then single threads in that subforum for e.g. 17", 15" and below 15" ....

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Dont know if someone has already said this but it works 99% on the HP DV5-1134tx.

 

only thing not working is the Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN

 

Specs:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4Ghz

Working without any mods.

Inputs: Normal PS/2 keyboard and Synaptics touchpad 2.5

Needed a PS/2 driver to get it working, was included in the iPC 10.5.6 disk

Disk: WDC WD3200BEVT 320GB

Working without any mods

GFX Nvidia 9600M GT

Needs a modified NVDarwin 1.2.5 kext driver and official MacBook NVidia drivers (included in iPC 10.5.6)

After install, QE/CI works.

Ethernet:Realtek 8111/8168 Gigabit ethernet

This works without support, but may fail. When it fails, you will need to install drivers to continue using it, dont know why.

Sound:IDT High Def Audio. (Dual headphone jacks, inbuilt microphone, external mic jack)

Needs drivers.

Other Peripherals:

SuYin 2.0MP webcam: No mods/patches needed with iPC 10.5.6 install. Doesnt work with the 10.5.4 ToH install.

HP QuickPlay Buttons: Only volume keys work. No drivers needed unless u want the play controls.

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