itsafunkything Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 G'day all, I recently put together a new Desktop with the following config. Intel Core i5 750 Processor Gigabyte P55A UD4 Mother Board Kingston DDR3 1333Mhz 4x2Gb RAM ATI 4850 X2 512Mb Graphics Card I did not select these components hoping to build a hackintosh but turns out this spec is very close to the Late 2009 iMac 21-27 inch line up. http://support.apple.com/kb/SP576 Seeing this I am very tempted to try to get Snow Leopard running on my machine - with a vanilla kernel that would enable me to install updates without having to fiddle around. I already have a macbook and the Snow Leopard 10.6.1 install disk that come with it. My question is, is it likely that I'd be able to have a vanilla OSX Snow Leopard running on my machine? I have done some research and I am quite confused as to which approach to take. Last night I tired the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] supported method described by tonymacx86 using the Snow Leopard DVD I got with my macbook but I could not even get into the installer. Can anyone please give me some pointers to get started? Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsafunkything Posted October 20, 2010 Author Share Posted October 20, 2010 Ok, I just read here http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1139 that the Snow Leopard disk that comes with the Macbook is locked for Macbooks. That would explain a lot why I hit the brick wall right at the start with the [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] method. But I'd still like to hear some success stories with this config and any tips Especially since the hardware is nearly identical to a late 2009 27" iMac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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