Tag Archive | "hackintosh"

Backing Up Your Data: The Where, The Why, and The How

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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Most of you out there (hopefully all of you, actually) have heard of the importance of backing up your data. Some reasons are universal between Macs and PCs while others are not. PC’s need to be backed up because of the possibility of hardware failure and the chance of getting Viruses, Spyware and the like, [...]

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Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Note: This update requires you to be running 10.6.1. If you aren’t already, you can download and install the 10.6.1 update from here. And don’t worry, just install and restart when prompted and you’ll be good to go. Snow Leopard has been available to the public for almost 6 months now, has received 2 updates, and [...]

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A Great Moment in Hackintosh History: Running OS X on a Phone

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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No, not iPhone OS. I’m talking full-fledged OS X, 10.3 Panther to be exact, running on a Nokia N900. Toni Nikkanen has done it, becoming the first person to run OS X on a phone, using PearPC and a lot of patience. It takes about 90 minutes to start up and it runs like molasses, [...]

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How To Install Snow Leopard On A Dell Mini 9

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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The good, good people over at the MyDellMini forums have been working hard to get Snow Leopard up and purring on the Mini 9 since September, and now everything finally works. I’ve been waiting to publish this guide until Meklort released the final version of NetbookBootMaker .8.3, which resolves the issue of audio in/out not [...]

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Apple wins case against Psystar, ruins reputation in the process

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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It was a sad day in the land of Hackintosh as Apple won its ongoing case with Psystar. The ruling ordered Psystar, a company made famous for it’s custom built Hackintoshes, “a permanent injunction.. banning it from selling hardware with Apple’s operating system.” The ruling also forbid Psystar from: Copying or selling OS X Inducing, aiding, assisting, [...]

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Quick Fix to get 10.6.2 Working on Atom Netbooks

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Have you updated your little Atom-based hackintosh to 10.6.2 and now are stuck with an unusable lump of plastic? Well, there’s an easy fix: downgrade your kernel. These simple instructions (courtesy of meklort) should get you back on your feet: Boot from whatever medium you used to install OS X. Go to Utilities -> Terminal. Run these two [...]

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