hackintosh

Fix For Netbook Hackintoshes In The Works, Temporary Fix Available

8:30AM Adam Pash | Lifehacker’s Hackintosh build upgraded without problems to OS X 10.6.2, but the same wasn’t true for hacked netbooks. More »

Hackintosh Works Like A Charm With 10.6.2 Update, Atom-Based Hacks Break

12:30PM Adam Pash | If you followed our most recent guides to installing Snow Leopard on a PC from start to finish or the updated guide to building a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, no hacking required, you’ll be happy to know that I’ve tested my build with today’s 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard and it’s working like a charm. More »

Hackintosh Netbooks May Be Safe In 10.6.2 After All

4:45AM Whitson Gordon | Earlier in the week, we reported that the then-current build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 took away support for the Intel Atom processor, which could break Hackintosh netbooks. It turns out, though, that the newest build has re-enabled Atom support. More »

Don’t Upgrade Just Yet If You’re Running A Hackintosh Netbook

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’re running Leopard or Snow Leopard on a “hackintosh” netbook, don’t allow it to upgrade to Snow Leopard 10.6.1, or Leopard 10.5.9. The core kernels in those update kill off support for Atom-based netbook CPUs, which is almost certainly the processor inside your netbook. More »

Hackintosh Upgrades Without Problems To 10.6.1

1:30AM Adam Pash | If you happened to follow along with my guide to building a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, start to finish, you may be curious as to whether you need to do anything special to upgrade to yesterday’s Snow Leopard 10.6.1 release. In short: You don’t. Just upgrade like normal; your Hackintosh should handle it like a charm. (Mine did.) More »

The Problems With A Hackintosh Netbook, Six Months Out

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | More than a few Lifehacker readers were probably intrigued when reports popped up about how easy it was to install OS X on an MSI Wind netbook (and it’s gotten easier lately with the Dell Mini 9). Before you splurge on what seems like a cheap, portable MacBook replacement, consider the experiences of Wired GadgetLab’s Brian X. Chen, as he dealt with software, hardware, and hardware design problems. More »

Hackintoshes Possibly More Popular Than Linux

1:15AM Kevin Purdy | A recent report listing operating system usage by web browsers highlighted one strange quirk—Mac OS X users with “no version reported” at 1 percent. Could the Hackintosh be more popular than Linux? Well, that depends on how you look at the numbers. The statistics are drawn from the 160 million users that web analytics firm Net Applications states are looking at its clients’ sites, and whether they’d be more or less prone to Linux traffic. Still, the idea that Hackintosh owners make up one percent of any site network’s traffic is pretty intriguing. [via] More »

Build A Hackintosh For Under $240

4:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Industrious tinkers at eclectic technology blog UselessNinjas have put together a guide to building a sub-$US240 computer to run Mac OS X. Last year Adam showed you how to build your own Hackintosh, the build at UselessNinjas continues in that spirit of installing OS X on non-Apple hardware. They use an extremely small desktop computer from MSI, the same manufacturer that built the hackintosh friendly MSI Wind Netbook we looked at a few months ago. For the details on their build, check out the full article. Even if you aren’t in the market for a mac-clone, the specs and size on the mini-desktop unit they use for the project look promising for a Windows based XBMC project. Homemade Macintosh for under $240 [via HackADay] More »