All Entries in the "Hackintosh" Category
Saturday’s Apple: First Experience With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Netbook
You might have read that I finally got Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard running on my Samsung NC10 netbook yesterday. These regular PCs on which people like myself try to get Apple’s OS running are often referred to as “hackintosh” computers. This of course refers to the fact that to get Mac OS X running [...]
Hackintosh Finally Running Leopard
After writing yesterday that my Samsung NC10 hackintosh still hadn’t successfully been running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard yet. This afternoon I tried installing one of the Leopard images again and it kept crashing and rebooting like before. Then I pulled out the plugs to the external DVD drive I was installing from and then, [...]
Update on Hackintosh Progress or Lack Thereof
It’s been a while since I wrote anything about what’s been going on with my hackintosh project. The simple truth is I’ve not had much time to work on it since we’ve been moving offices and that’s taken up a lot of time for administrative duties, meetings, and more.
I have done a few things in [...]
Finally, Wi-Fi Received and Installed
One area where many hackintosh netbooks have problems is with support for Wi-Fi cards. It seems Leopard doesn’t support most Wi-Fi cards put into netbooks. There are drivers but they come with problems and aren’t very reliable. The typical solution to this problem is to get a Dell Wi-Fi card and swap it into the [...]
Some Parts Received And Windows 7 Installed on the Hackintosh
Finally, the hard drive and the RAM arrived. It seems the Wi-Fi card is still possibly a week away due to some delays on the seller’s side. That annoys me but nothing much I can do about it.
But that little set back wasn’t going to hold me back from doing some work on my hackintosh. [...]
Reflections on Windows XP Netbook After One Week
I’ve used my hackintosh Samsung NC10 for about a week now so I can share a few thoughts on it with some experience under my belt, so to speak. It’s still running Windows XP because I’m still waiting for the parts that I’ll install before trying the leap to Leopard; the 500GB hard drive, the [...]
The Original Apple Netbook – eMate
Let’s see a show of hands – how many of you know what an eMate is? No, I’m not talking about i-Mate, you know the Dubai-based maker of mobile phones and PDAs, I mean the Apple eMate.
I don’t blame you for not knowing what eMate is. It was an Apple product that was only produced [...]
Hackintosh: What’s With All The Stickers?
You know how clean and smooth a Mac is? No stickers, no unnecessary labels, not many ports, etc. In fact, you’ll be hard pressed finding screws sometimes on Macs. Apple really goes to great lengths to design clean and nice looking computers, from the inside out.
Then take a look at most Windows PCs, like our [...]
Hackintosh: Bigger Hard Drive Available
What the heck, why not take this experiment all the way? The Samsung NC10, my hackintosh candidate, comes with a 160GB drive, which seems more than enough, right? Well, it turns out some people have been putting 500GB drives in there and that’s just too tempting to be overlooked.
Apparently the drive they put in there [...]
Hackintosh: Better Battery Life
If you’re an owner of a MacBook Air, tell me how much usage do you get out of one battery charge? Two hours? Three hours? Somewhere in there would be my guess.
With the Samsung NC10 I get 5-7 hours it seems depending on what I do and what settings I have for performance and other [...]
Hackintosh: Will Apple Make a Netbook?
There are of course different answers to that question: from Apple’s official comments on the matter the answer is “No” or at least “Not Now”; from my own experience the answer would be “No”, and; from my personal desires the answer would be “Heck yes!”
I’ve wanted Apple to make a really small Mac for a [...]
Hackintosh: Wi-Fi Card and RAM Ordered
My hackintosh project continues. I’ve now used the Samsung NC10 for a bit and I can tell you it’s a really nice machine. Runs fast, very quiet and with Windows XP I get some 5-6 hours of work out of it before needing to recharge. Other users report 1-2 hours more than that, perhaps it’s [...]
Hackintosh: Samsung NC10 Project Started
Yesterday I bought the Samsung NC10 with the explicit purpose of putting Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on it. It’s 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Some months ago I got an Acer Aspire One with the same idea. To be honest I never really got around to it and read too many complaints online from [...]
