jamesbeat Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Hi guys, I just installed Leopard (ideneb 1.3) on my no-name laptop. Everything's working great as far as I can tell. My original intention was to install Snow Leopard with a vanilla kernel so that I would have a 'real' Mac that would allow me to use software updates etc. Upon checking my processor in Linux, however, I saw no SSE3 listed, so I ended up using Leopard with a patched kernel. The strange thing now is, when I go into 'About This Mac', it tells me that my processor does in fact have SSE3 capabilities! Does this mean that I really do have SSE3, or is this just a side effect of the patched kernel fooling the OS into thinking so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.su Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Yes, What you are probably seeing is an SSE3 emulator in action. It's what makes it all possible for us AMD/SSE2 hackitoshers. and I have to add.....The ONLY way to have a "real Mac" is to buy a "real Mac" A hackintosh is a hackintosh. What is your processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbeat Posted May 30, 2010 Author Share Posted May 30, 2010 Yes I know, which is why I put 'real' in inverted commas I'm actually a Linux user, but I have an iphone so I need itunes. I had Windows XP on a separate partition, but then I thought why not use OSX instead? Unfortunately installing OSX has now messed up my bootloader, so I'm trying to fix that right now. My processor is a pretty modest 1.6 Ghz Intel Core Solo. I haven't really needed to buy a faster machine for a few years now since I became a Linux user. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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