legolas96 Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Hey! My new project is to get Snow Leopard (my favorite system so far) running on a ThinkPad X61t. Since the other threads are a little old or based on Lion I would like to start a new topic to collect the files and informations needed for the last version of Snow Leopard. I'm also askinga other ThinkPad X61 users to share their experiences and files here! I will also keep the first thread updated until the project is finished. Basic Information about ThinkPad X61Series: CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T7100 (1.80 Ghz), T7250 (2.00 Ghz), T7300 (2.00 Ghz), T7500 (2.20 Ghz), T8100 (2.10 Ghz), T8300 (2.40 Ghz), T9300 (2.50 Ghz), L7300 (1.40 Ghz), L7500 (1.60 Ghz), L7700 (1.80 GHz) Grafic Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Display 12.1" with one of the following displays: TFT display with 1024x768 IPS display with 1024x768 IPS display with 1024x768 and MultiTouch AFFS-IPS display with 1400x1050 Memory 2 PC2-5300 memory slots (max 4 Gb / with middleton Bios 8 Gb) Drive 1 SATA 2.5" drive Sound Intel HD Audio with AD1984 codec Network Ethernet: Intel Gigabit, Wlan Mini-PCI Intel PRO 3945ABG or 4965AGN, Bluetooth 2.0 Other: 3x USB 2 Integrated Fingerprint Reader in some models SD Card slot CardBus slot (Type 2) Firewire 400 (IEEE1394a) in Tablet Series: Wacom Serial Tablet PC Stylus Tablet Hardware Buttons Docingstations: for X61/X61s: ThinkPad X6 UltraBase / for Tablet: ThinkPad X6 Tablet UltraBase: Features: Ethernet, Modem, 4x USB 2, VGA, Serial-port, Parallel-port, Microphone, Headphone, Ultrabay Slim CD/DVD-Combo Middleton BIOS: Before you blow away Windows on your ThinkPad X61 you will probably want to run the Middleton BIOS hack first. It replaces the BIOS. You know that command line looking gibberish before windows comes up? Well it’s important stuff, it tells the operating system what kind of hardware the PC has. Why this hacked BIOS? As it turns out the X61 line has SATA-1 or just SATA, not SATA-2, even though the hardware is capable of it. As you can imagine, it limits the speed of hard drives in there, especially if you have an SSD. So if you have an SSD, you really need to do this. The instructions are pretty clear but there are two ways of doing it. One is to run the included exe file in Windows. The other way is to burn the included ISO file to a blank CD, boot off it, and run the BIOS flash that way. Working: In Progress (just started): Grafic X3100 changing display resolution VGA-Out / Docingstation VGA-Out Sound Shutdown/Restart/Sleep Wlan Ethernet SD Card slot Bluetooth SSD Trim Support Tablet (on X61T) DVD Installation Guide USB Installation Guide usefull pages: tonymacx86: http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.at/ Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Retail DVD: http://www.ebay.com/...eopard&_sacat=0 Mac OSX 10.6.8 Update: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399 The number one Hackintosh repository: http://www.kexts.com/ Voodooprojects Forums: http://forum.voodooprojects.org/ Kext Helper b7: http://cheetha.net/ OSx86 Project, 10.6.0 Hardware Compatibility Lists: http://wiki.osx86pro...x.php/Main_Page Guide for T60p (2007-CQ8) 1400x1050: http://forums.thinkp....538137#p538137 Snow Leopard on ThinkPad X61: http://osx86.co/f57/....pad-x61-t3735/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizzord Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Nice. I stopped trying after a while as I needed to work with the Laptop and Linux seemed to be an acceptable alternative, but I just started searching and reading again some days ago. This thread seemed helpful at that time: http://www.thinkpads...hp?f=32&t=86621 The 'Guide for T60p (2007-CQ8) 1400x1050' link seems to be broken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yTsur Posted March 2, 2013 Share Posted March 2, 2013 Hey legolas96, I realize this thread is half a year old, but I was curious if you made any progress. I too am trying to install 10.6.8 on a x61 T sxga. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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