Ellis Posted December 7, 2010 Share Posted December 7, 2010 Hi there, Just wondering if it's possible to do a retail install of OS X on an AMD system, with the use of a bootloader of course. The specs are as follows: AMD Athlon II X2 250 - 3.0GHz dual core MSI 785GM-E51 motherboard 4GB DDR3 RAM 1333MHz 7-7-7-20 Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAII hard drive Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayman121985 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 Let me know what you find I have a MSI GT 735 AMD Turion Ultra ZM-82 2.2GHz Processor 2GB x 2 DDR2 667/800 RAM, 4GB Max Memory Supported 320GB SATA Hard Drive, Super Multi Optical Drive LCD 17-Inch WSXGA+/Glare 1680 x 1050, ATI HD3850 512MB, Chipset ATI RX781+ SB700, and I am looking for an AMD hackintosh for snow leopard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeXa2 Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 No. You would have to use legacy_kernel as your CPU is not Intel CPU Apple had ever used in their original hardware. Same problems would be with MB chipset as AFAIRK all original Apple computers were based on Intel chipsets and there are no Intel chipsets for the AMD CPUs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 So I would have to download a distro then I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter_sm Posted December 8, 2010 Share Posted December 8, 2010 I did a retail installation, booted from a USB stick, I did a "patch" with <h2 class="entry-title">myHack mod – v1.1.4</h2> http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=242 Works GREAT EDIT DL a distro, then restore that to the USB , using Disk Utility, then apply myhack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted December 8, 2010 Author Share Posted December 8, 2010 I did a retail installation, booted from a USB stick, I did a "patch" with <h2 class="entry-title">myHack mod – v1.1.4</h2> http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=242 Works GREAT EDIT DL a distro, then restore that to the USB , using Disk Utility, then apply myhack Download a distro? I thought you used retail?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa206 Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Would be best if you tried to copy Apple's hardware as much as possible. You may get it to work for now but one software update and the thing might be toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaLd0n Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1438651 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 Would be best if you tried to copy Apple's hardware as much as possible. You may get it to work for now but one software update and the thing might be toast. Yeah, that's why I wanted to do a retail install - it seems that you have to wait for a patched update or something if you're using a distro whereas with a retail install you can just go ahead and update. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...t&p=1438651 Thanks. I think I've already tried that, but it's worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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