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Tech Talk => Software, Security, Programming and Internet => Topic started by: woodyear99 on September 16, 2009, 07:16:57 PM

Title: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: woodyear99 on September 16, 2009, 07:16:57 PM

Making a Hackintosh got a whole lot easier. A custom installer now lets you install Snow Leopard easily on your pc. Might try this out if I get some time.

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http://lifehacker.com/5360150/install-snow-leopard-on-your-hackintosh-pc-no-hacking-required

Two weeks ago I detailed how to build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, start to finish, with a little Terminal work. If you're not comfortable with command-line hacking, you can now install Snow Leopard on your Hackintosh with just a few point-and-clicks.

So what's changed between my last guide and this one? In short, one of the incredibly helpful and generous people who helped walk me through the installation process last time was kind enough to wrap all the tedious Terminal work into one dead simple installer. Where two weeks ago I showed you how to prepare your thumb drive (and after that, hard drive) with a custom bootloader that allows you to boot into OS X on regular old PC hardware, now all you have to do is run a package, point it at the drive you want to prepare, and then let it take care of all the nitty gritty. It could not be more simple.

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: W1nTry on September 17, 2009, 09:37:07 AM

Hmm *W1nTry strokes beard*.... VERY interesting...

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: Spazosaurus on September 17, 2009, 10:03:03 AM

Interesting indeed. When I get time, i'll try it out on a virtual machine and see how it goes.

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: W1nTry on September 17, 2009, 10:05:55 AM

Quote from: Captain Awesome on September 17, 2009, 10:03:03 AM

Interesting indeed. When I get time, i'll try it out on a virtual machine and see how it goes.

I think OS X is deserving of an Actual machine, reason being alot of the beauty behind it is in the interface and smoothness of effects. You WON'T get that on a VM because you need OpenGL acceleration. Trust me on this.

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: Spazosaurus on September 17, 2009, 10:31:40 AM

I know I know, I just want to get the steps ironed out before in actually install it on the native hardware. The same "smoothness" not being replicated on a virtual machine holds true for Windows os's as well. I know.

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: mailman166 on September 17, 2009, 10:47:57 PM

Are the audio drivers for this comparable to windows counterparts?

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: Spazosaurus on September 18, 2009, 06:12:20 AM

Quote from: mailman166 on September 17, 2009, 10:47:57 PM

Are the audio drivers for this comparable to windows counterparts?

I very much doubt it.

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: mailman166 on September 18, 2009, 11:17:34 PM

If they iron the drivers for audio out... I so wanna install logic on my pc :D Music production game would be stepped up

Title: Re: Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required
Post by: Nephilim on September 22, 2009, 09:27:22 AM

virtualbox supports opengl winny

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog)

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VirtualBox 3.0.0 (released 2009-06-30)

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

i ran osx in virtual box before and if your system is substantial enough it should work fine

don't expect all pc hardware to work though, if you read the article you would see that the guy used a specific set of hardware that is known to work with teh hackintosh, here (http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.6.0) is a list of compatible hardware

-.- pic tooo big...here (https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/403597/Darwin-2009-06-22-18-16-49.png) link