Tag Archives: leopard

The Hack Is Back!

February 11th, 2009

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The tie-wearing idiots over at Best Buy’s Geek Squad finally received my Dell Inspiron 1525 back from warranty. The guy who examined it after it arrived was very surprised that they replaced the whole LCD screen. He opened it up as he was explaining how rare it was for them to replace the whole thing. [...]

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Turn Old Hard Drives Into Time Machines

July 26th, 2008

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I’ve all but gutted my first Hackintosh — the Celeron D-powered war horse and by doing so, I saved myself some cash. While everyone’s running to buy the wireless Time Capsule device, I only have one machine i really need to back up and that’s my HackBook Pro I use at the office. Why waste [...]

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Dell Inspiron 1525 Hackintosh/HackBook Pro Tutorial!

July 21st, 2008

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**This post is outdated. Use this guide to install Snow Leopard** (At the time of writing, 10.5.4 is the latest version of Mac OS X) I’ve done it, and I absolutely love it for more reasons than one. Now I’m going to show you how it’s done so you too can have your own Inspiron [...]

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Leopard 10.5.3 Now Hackintosh’d!

May 29th, 2008

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It happened in a matter of hours from its official release from Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.3, the latest major release of Leopard has been hacked to run on your average PC using a special kernel to bypass special restrictions. Major build releasers such as JaS and Kalyway have already put out Combo Updates which [...]

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Poor Man’s Mac Pro: Hackintosh Software Updates

March 2nd, 2008

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In my ever continuing Hackintosh adventures, we find ourselves with what every Mac hacker drools over and dreams of: a $200 ‘Mac Pro’ fully updated with all the latest Apple goodies on par with the real mac owners who’ve spent thousands of dollars for the ability to take their computer to AppleCare. In my two [...]

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