Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
I bought myself one of these Sapphire Radeon HD 6870s a couple weeks ago for my new hackintosh. When I first booted it using the “GraphicsEnabler”=”Yes” flag in Chameleon, it booted fine and recognized the card as a 6870 in System Profiler but only one monitor worked. I disabled GraphicsEnabler and rebooted, and surprisingly it [...] Read more »
I finally installed OS X on my laptop, and it runs better than I thought it would. You can thank John, who commented on my previous post, for making me want to do this. I’ve had two other AMD hackintoshes, and this is the quickest one I’ve had. However, there are a few things you [...] Read more »
I was looking at Prasys’ blog, and I found a post about a newer EFI Boot CD that’s supposed to be better than Empire EFI called ModCD. I saw that it supports both Intel and AMD machines, so I tried it out on my laptop and actually got the Snow Leopard install disc to boot. [...] Read more »
Now that the awesomeness of having a new computer has worn off a bit, I figured I would do a follow-up review of the Gateway NV53A. It’s still running fast and is stable, but I have found some more flaws that could be Windows settings but I thought they were worth mentioning. The first one [...] Read more »
I finally replaced my laptop that’s needed to be replaced for about a year now. The inverter board was shot so the screen rarely worked, and the last hinge finally broke. So far this laptop has been great, it’s pretty quick and hasn’t given me any problems yet. Here are the full specs on my [...] Read more »
Here are the unboxing photos of my new Gateway laptop. I will do a review as soon as I get a chance. Specs: 15.6″ 16:9 screen Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 2.10 GHz AMD Athlon 4GB DDR3 RAM ATI Mobility Radeon 4250 256MB 320GB HDD Tweet Read more »
I ordered some new parts for my computer so I will review them after I have used them for a while. Here are the current specs vs. what the new ones will be: Current: HP a6000n AMD Athlon 4200+ 2.20 GHz 3GB RAM 250GB hard drive nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB New: Asus P5KPL-AM [...] Read more »