Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
This guide is for upgrading your existing Snow Leopard or Lion installation to Mountain Lion on the ASUS Sabertooth P67 (though it will likely work for a lot of other boards). The method described here seems to be the “old fashioned” way of creating an OS X installer drive, but it still works. There are [...] Read more »
Things you’ll need: A blank CD OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD A Core i3/5/7 processor An Account on tonymacx86.com 1. Download iBoot Legacy, UpdateHelper, and Multibeast Snow Leopard Edition from tonymacx86. 2. Burn the iBoot ISO to the blank CD and save Multibeast and UpdateHelper to another drive. 3. Reboot the computer, press F8, [...] Read more »
Yesterday Apple released the OS X 10.7.1 update. I updated and the only problem I had was with SleepEnabler, as usual. Before updating, replace the SleepEnabler.kext you are currently using with this one. Tweet Read more »
Apple released the 10.6.8 update today. I’ve got it running on my P5Q Pro turbo, but SleepEnabler is broken as usual. If a new one is released by tomorrow afternoon, I’ll try to update this post with a link but if not it will be about a week before I have time to mess with [...] Read more »
Apple released the 10.6.7 update. The first attempt to install it failed, but the second worked for me. When I started it up the first time after the update, it ran kinda slow and software update launched twice for some reason. I rebooted it again and it froze at the login window. I restarted it [...] Read more »
A new version of Greenpois0n has been released that supports an untethered jailbreak of iOS 4.2.1. I’ve successfully jailbroken my iPod touch 4th generation using this. Everything seems to be working fine for me. It’s a simple process, just follow the instructions on the screen and you should have a jailbroken device within a few [...] Read more »
My main Christmas present this year was a new iPod touch 4th generation. I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and it’s a major improvement over the 2nd generation. Animations are much smoother and opening applications is faster (I would hope so, the 2nd generation is over two years old now). Here are [...] Read more »
Apple released 10.6.6 today, and as usual it’s working fine on my hackintosh aside from SleepEnabler. So far I haven’t had any problems with it, so go ahead and update if you want. I’ll update this post when SleepEnabler gets updated. Also the Mac app store works fine, and it appears you can use iTunes [...] Read more »
Apple released the 10.6.5 update today. As usual, if you have a vanilla system, go ahead and update but replace SleepEnabler with the 10.6.5 version. Update: If you forgot to replace SleepEnabler before updating and you’re getting a kernel panic, boot into single user mode, type /sbin/mount -uw /, and then type rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext [...] 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 »