guvnor Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Firstly i'd just like to thank you in advance for any help you give me, trust me it's greatly appreciated. I've only ever run windows based pc's but would really like to try out some of the "mac only" software (Garageband & Final cut pro in particular as i create music and music video's for a hobby) but i am not in the position to spend out on a mac (The wife would kill me!!) I currently am using an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 with Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Build 7600) 8GB DDR2 RAM - MB : Gigabyte EP45-UD3L - Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT I do not want to mess around with this pc as it has all my essential "Music creating" software on it and i would hate to stuff it up. But as a last ditch attempt i might be persuaded to set up dual boot on this machine. I have two spare pc's, an Acer and a HP which are both about the same spec as each other and i would love to install Mac OS X onto one of them if possible. I have spent the last few months reading posts, downloading software and trying different installs, and even though i think of myself as "pretty computer literate", i have got nowhere fast. I would really like someone within the community to help me as i am now becoming frustrated with my failures But please keep things simple for me, as i am NOT a computer programmer - but i am willing to give anything a shot to get Mac OS X on my pc. Well here are the specs of the PC i would like to try to install to:- PC1 :- HP Pavillion A1300A Intel Pentium D 940 CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 2 Cores - 2 Threads CPU PSN : Intel Pentium D CPU 3.20GHz CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3), EM64T, VT-x CPUID : F.6.2 / Extended : F.6 CPU Cache : L1 : 2 x 12 / 2 x 16 KB - L2 : 2 x 2048 KB Core : Presler (65 nm) / Stepping : B1 Freq : 3199.34 MHz (199.96 * 16) MB Brand : ECS MB Model : Asterope NB : ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 rev 01 SB : ATI SB400 rev 80 GPU Type : RADEON X800 XT DirectX Version : 11.0 RAM : 2048 MB DDR2 Single Channel PC2:- Acer Aspire Intel Pentium D 830 CPU Arch : 1 CPU - 2 Cores - 2 Threads CPU PSN : Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00GHz CPU EXT : MMX, SSE (1, 2, 3), EM64T CPUID : F.4.4 / Extended : F.4 CPU Cache : L1 : 2 x 12 / 2 x 16 KB - L2 : 2 x 1024 KB Core : SmithField (90 nm) / Stepping : A0 Freq : 2992.53 MHz (199.5 * 15) MB Brand : ACER MB Model : ERC410M??????????????? NB : ATI RS400/RC400/RC410 rev 01 SB : ALI M1573 rev 31 GPU Type : NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT GPU Clocks : Core 550 MHz / RAM 400 MHz DirectX Version : 11.0 RAM : 1536 MB DDR2 Single Channel Thanks for your help and sorry for being such a newbie Quote Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/244868-help-installing-mac-os-x-on-an-old-hp-or-acer-descktop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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