lordzombiejesus Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Hi there, I have read through the rules and it says only to ask a question such as this if I have googled and searched the wiki and this forum to no avail, which is rather frustratingly the case I’m afraid. I need a Mac to run things like Final Cut Pro for my Uni work but I can’t afford one. I’m looking into building a hackintosh by buying a custom built laptop and installing snow leopard on it. I think I’m ok in terms of sheer power, (I’m quite a geek with windows based PC's so I know some technical stuff, but this is my first venture into building a hackintosh and I’m a bit lost tbh) and from what I can gather I’m heading in the right direction by getting a mother board with an Intel chipset and an Nvidia video card with Sata hard drives, but I can’t afford to shell out over £1000 on this without the knowledge that it will almost certainly work. I know that no one can give me that answer exactly, but i wondered if anyone could pass comment on the likelihood of the hardware I have picked out working as a hackintosh? I have googled, searched here and the wiki but can’t seem to find advice on the components of my set up. They are; Clevo W150ERQ Gaming Notebook 15.6" Full HD 1920x1080 Display w/ Built-in 2.0 MP Webcam, Fingerprint Sensor, HDMI Port, Li-Ion Battery, & Universal AC Adapter Intel® Core™ i7-3720QM Mobile Processor 2.60 GHz 6M Smart Cache, Max Turbo Freq. 3.60 GHz Mobile Intel HM77 Express Chipset Mainboard 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3-1333 SODIMM Memory NVIDIA GT 650M 1GB PCIe Video 500GB 7200RPM SATA300 Hard Drive x 2 8X DVD±R/RW/4X + DL Super-Multi Drive (NB-373-DVDRW) Built-in 3D Premium Surround Sound Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6235 - 802.11A/B/G/N 300Mbps Dual-Band Wi-Fi + Bluetooth Combo [intel WiDi Ready] I don’t want someone to walk me through an installation or anything, I’m fairly confident once I have the hardware I can do everything else without any further help, I’m just worried about shelling out a fortune to end up with a machine that is useless too me. Any help is much appreciated and thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BALDY_MAN Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 lap tops are harder to do. how about i micro board and a micro case build. you need to get a board as close to a mac as you can. to make it easy for your self ie. are the kexts easy to get hold of. Sound internet graphics . dsdt file storage chip. I've just had a quick google HP PRO Book 4530s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordzombiejesus Posted May 15, 2012 Author Share Posted May 15, 2012 lap tops are harder to do. how about i micro board and a micro case build. you need to get a board as close to a mac as you can. to make it easy for your self ie. are the kexts easy to get hold of. Sound internet graphics . dsdt file storage chip. I've just had a quick google HP PRO Book 4530s Thanks for taking the time to reply. =] I haven’t been able to find people who have researched the exact hardware i will be using, so it is hard to say for some of it. I assume you suggest that laptop as it is known for being easy to install a Mac os on? I appreciate the time and effort you put in but do you know of any more powerful laptop's that might work well? That’s roughly the same kind of power i have in my current laptop but i need something much more powerful for the work i will be doing. Thanks again for your comment whether you can help further or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketSledder77 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 I would like to know to I just upgraded my HP HDX16t CTO-1200 (which ran Mac OSX 10.7.2 "practically perfectly") for a HP DV6t Quad Edition 7000 with Ivy Bridge CPU & Chipset, I should get it by Monday. I guess providing the specs I do know would help, here is what I know so far: 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3610QM 2.3 GHz Intel HM77 Express Chipset 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 RAM NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M (2GB DDR Dedicated RAM) Bluray player/burner 3x USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed"/ 1x USB 2.0/HDMI/VGA/RJ45 Eithernet Port/Headphone-Out (Stereo)/Microphone-In Multi-Format Digital Media Card Reader for Secure Digital cards & Multimedia cards HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated Dual Array Digital Microphone (High Definition Low-Light) 4x Beats Audio™ Internal speakers; Beats Audio™ Audio playback; HP Triple Bass Reflex with Subwoofer Synaptics TouchPad with on/off button and support for multitouch gestures Full-sized Island-style Backlit Keyboard with Numberpad Integrated 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN Intel 802.11b/g/n Wireless with Bluetooth (NO, NOT AGAIN ) If it doesn't work I hope I can use my HP Atheros 9280 with this new laptop and no BIOS updates or modifcations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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