Hackintosh
Getting your Hackintosh working: Some common pitfalls
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I’ve been meaning to write about the pitfalls that I experienced during the process of getting Mac OSX working well on my main AMD-based PC because, although the support available on the net (particularily at insanelymac.com) is fantastic, I experienced some problems that were either undocumented, or took a serious [...]
Intellimouse drivers for OSX: 50% CPU / 1GB RAM usage
Can’t be arsed writing about this, frankly it’s boring. However, just thought I’d put it out there… what the hell is going on here?
1GB real memory used between the two processes, and over 50% CPU usage: I’d slowed to a crawl! The one thing holding me back from embracing Mac (hmm it’s seems so slow!) [...]
w00t
Importing the music on the new HDD. At least now I’ve got a backup if iTunes decides to delete everything again. Plus, it’s formatted mac-wise now, hopefully less issues.
Just to add to the pain..
Just to add to the pain, after managing to recover all my lost music from the HDD [see thread] simply using windows XP’s own scandisk (!), I stepped a little boldly again and ended up getting an arbitrary 30GB of music deleted. This time was worse, because an arbitrary 30GB is harder to restore from [...]
Oh god, my Music library
OK, so I accidentally toasted my substantial music collection last night. Everyone who knows me knows that I pride this eclectic, pedantic, hoarded and polished music collection more than anything else that I own: it’s essentially my life’s work thus far, and to lose it is comparable to losing a limb. Therefore I’m pretty careful about [...]
FINALLY! Got my hackintosh working
I’ll post more on this in the morning. Schweet!
(p.s. took about 20 attempts to nail it…)
GUIDE AVAILABLE HERE
Here goes nothing..
I’m about to wipe my laptop (Dell Inspiron 9300) and attempt to create a Hackintosh Mac using the guide at LifeHacker (mmmm native iTunes). I’ll post details and screenshots of the process when (and if!) I’m successful . Here goes nothing…
EDIT: apparently ‘2 minutes remaining’ means that actually the install has hanged. *sigh* try and [...]
