Gaming How exactly does someone make a Hackintosh?

[Nujui]

I have a old laptop I don't use as much and I've never touched the Mac OS before, so I wanted to try it, so I looked around on how to make a hackintosh, though I don't really know where to start.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Well first of all you have to have compatible hardware. If it's an older laptop, I'm not sure if it'd have the right hardware.

Check http://www.hackintosh.com/#hackintosh_compatible there are links to sites that provide compatibility charts and such.

 

[Nujui]

Well first of all you have to have compatible hardware. If it's an older laptop, I'm not sure if it'd have the right hardware.

Check http://www.hackintosh.com/#hackintosh_compatible there are links to sites that provide compatibility charts and such.

I think my laptop can probably do it. It's a HP Palavion with a AMD CPU and GPU.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Err...the motherboard compatibility might not be. It's more important than CPU and GPU compatibility. If it's not compatible with your motherboard, it won't be compatible with your CPU or GPU.

Can you post the specs of your laptop/a page that contains specs?

 

[Nujui]

Err...the motherboard compatibility might not be. It's more important than CPU and GPU compatibility. If it's not compatible with your motherboard, it won't be compatible with your CPU or GPU.

Can you post the specs of your laptop/a page that contains specs?

http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-Pavilion/A6Z59UA?HP-Pavilion-g6-1d60us-Notebook-PC

 

[Krestent]

You can get Snow Leopard running on just about anything. Getting stuff like networking and sound functional is another story. OSX has to have drivers for the individual components before they will work. I say Snow Leopard since I personally have had no luck getting Lion running on an AMD machine.

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't show the model of the network controller. Without that, it's impossible to know whether it will work without installing first.

 

[Nujui]

You can get Snow Leopard running on just about anything. Getting stuff like networking and sound functional is another story. OSX has to have drivers for the individual components before they will work. I say Snow Leopard since I personally have had no luck getting Lion running on an AMD machine.

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't show the model of the network controller. Without that, it's impossible to know whether it will work without installing first.

I had a look around, it seems I have a Realtek RTL8101 network controller.

 

[pasc]

Its not really a "hackintosh" however I'd first try using it with a VM.

 

[Krestent]

You can get Snow Leopard running on just about anything. Getting stuff like networking and sound functional is another story. OSX has to have drivers for the individual components before they will work. I say Snow Leopard since I personally have had no luck getting Lion running on an AMD machine.

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't show the model of the network controller. Without that, it's impossible to know whether it will work without installing first.

I had a look around, it seems I have a Realtek RTL8101 network controller.

Well after a short bit of searching it turns out that unofficial drivers do exist for that controller.

 

[Nujui]

You can get Snow Leopard running on just about anything. Getting stuff like networking and sound functional is another story. OSX has to have drivers for the individual components before they will work. I say Snow Leopard since I personally have had no luck getting Lion running on an AMD machine.

EDIT: The link you posted doesn't show the model of the network controller. Without that, it's impossible to know whether it will work without installing first.

I had a look around, it seems I have a Realtek RTL8101 network controller.

Well after a short bit of searching it turns out that unofficial drivers do exist for that controller.

Alright..so how would I start the process? What do I need to get?

 

[Urza]

Alright..so how would I start the process? What do I need to get?

http://bit.ly/LexXnG

 

[Krestent]

You would need either a retail disk plus booter on a flash drive, or a premodded image burned onto a DVD. After that you boot the system, and if all goes well, install OSX and then get drivers installed for stuff not directly supported.

In a nutshell.

 

[kirbymaster101]

Alright..so how would I start the process? What do I need to get?

http://bit.ly/LexXnG

ironically the first result is this thread LOL

 

[Rydian]

Well, this should have the info then.

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

 

[BORTZ]

I wish you luck, a hackintosh isnt the easiest thing in the world. If you end up and find your machine cant do it, i suggest going with a really light install of linux if you just want to breath life into an old computer.

 

[Flame]

I wish you luck, a hackintosh isnt the easiest thing in the world. If you end up and find your machine cant do it, i suggest going with a really light install of linux if you just want to breath life into an old computer.

i agree, why not install something like xbuntu which would bring new life into your old laptop.

 

[pistone]

yet the simplest thing you can do to run mac os on a pc is to use a virtual machine but you will need some ram and a nice cpu ..........

 

[Pleng]

Alright..so how would I start the process? What do I need to get?

http://bit.ly/LexXnG

ironically the first result is this thread LOL

It's not that ironic, considering it's a word for word match

 

[Lastly]

Sorry for stealing the thread here, but is a hackintosh 100% speed? I mean does it lag like in VMWare? Is it easy? Sorry for the n00b questions.

 

[Urza]

Sorry for stealing the thread here, but is a hackintosh 100% speed? I mean does it lag like in VMWare? Is it easy? Sorry for the n00b questions.

There is no emulation involved during run-time, so If you use supported hardware your performance will match that of a similarly specced Mac. The only potential speed hit would come from inefficient third-party kernel extensions, which would only come into play in corner cases with specific problem components.