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05-24-2008, 07:06 PM
|  | Mad Cow Disease | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | I love it when people put a Mac OS on a PC. It negates any argument to buy a Mac.
Nice job.
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05-25-2008, 02:10 AM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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Originally Posted by SonicSpeed  | That's a false statement. You can have wrong components and still have it work. Like I said, on my initial boot, I had no audio component and no NIC support. That didn't stop anything from working, other than the obvious. Switching to my on-board audio and running a kernel patch (drag & drop simplicity), and installing a separate NIC fixed everything right up.  Quote:
Originally Posted by No-Fear | It's really quick if you're knowledgeable. The install process took about 40 minutes. This was including choosing the drivers and options during the installation. Once it was installed, doing the research on various hardware and patches and stuff took a couple hours. As long as you know all your hardware is compatible beforehand, there's no reason that it would take longer than the initial install time. Quote:
Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas | This is true of any OS. Laptops are just not comparable to a desktop PC. :P A Mac laptop is not going to be as good as a full Mac. A PC laptop is not going to be as good as a full PC. However, using XP on that laptop should be no different and 100% comparable to another laptop or machine with similar hardware. It's just another x86 system. The only real difference in the end is an Apple-manufactured motherboard with EFI support.
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05-25-2008, 02:12 AM
| | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | If you don't know what NIC to get, there have been reports of awesome success with this NIC. If you go to D-Link's site, they have drivers you can download for just about every OS, including XP, Vista, Linux, and OSX. Since this has native OSX drivers, it works flawlessly. I think I'm going to order one for myself. 
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05-25-2008, 02:17 AM
|  | oPg -> sR-SonicSpeed | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oregon
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Originally Posted by Dopefish | Well if you have one wrong core component, the installer won't even run. As in my case (since the installer wouldn't work with PATA drives due to the JMicron IDE controller).
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05-25-2008, 02:44 AM
| | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | JMicron controller is supported.
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05-25-2008, 04:06 PM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | you saying that apple software needed to run the laptop functions doesn't slow/effect the machine? I mean, I had to download some unsupported driver for windows since Apple apparently underclocks their graphics cards.
IDK, awesome job though, enjoy your hackintosh
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05-26-2008, 01:55 AM
| | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | The underlying stuff is no different than your BIOS. In fact, EFI is better than the old BIOS design.
I did some reinstalls to move hardware around. I now have Leopard installed on a very fast SATA drive and it's even better than before.
I still have some problems with the Realtek 8139 NIC and dropping network connections when booted with both cores enabled. I tried using an older Linksys LNE-100TX v4.1 card that I had and it would not only drop the connection with both cores enabled, but it would freeze the entire system randomly.
I ordered this Intel NIC yesterday. There are no guarantees that this same card will work for you since I haven't even tested it. I'm hoping the success will come in either two formats. The first is that Apple includes drivers for the chipset on this card. If those don't work, there are third party drivers by a company called Small Tree that I am hoping to hack and make work. I really want to be able to have a solid, stable network connection in Leopard. It's the only thing left that I need to get working well.
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05-27-2008, 11:52 AM
|  | Time 2 Play | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Land of OZ
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| | | If anyone has an IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium M or Core or Core2 CPU and a Broadcom wireless chipset I'm told it runs OSX very well by a co-worker [with some modified kekst files]. everything except Quartz Extreme graphics and proper hibernation anyway. |
06-29-2008, 04:13 AM
|  | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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 : 32 nd | | | I just joined the OSX on my PC club. So far everything is going excellent.
My Razer mouse sensitivity is a little funky though.
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06-29-2008, 04:53 AM
| | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | Awesome, man.
The mouse does behave differently. It's because there's no real easy way to disable mouse acceleration in OSX. There are some console apps that you can have run on startup that remove the acceleration, but I forget what they are. You eventually get used to it.
What are your computer specs and how troublesome did your setup go?
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