Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
Before following this guide, you must have a working installation of OS X Snow Leopard on your hackintosh. You can either upgrade your existing Snow Leopard installation or do a clean install, but you’ll need Snow Leopard to prepare for the upgrade. What you’ll need: -A working copy of Snow Leopard -A copy of OS [...] 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 »
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 »
Apple refreshed the Mac mini this morning and gave it the first redesign since it was introduced in early 2005. The Mac mini was shortened by 3/4″, but was increased from 6″ x 6″ to 7.7″ x 7.7″. Processor speed was increased from 2.26 GHz to 2.4 GHz or you can get a 2.66 GHz [...] Read more »
I was going to write my own article on how to upgrade the hard drive, but I found this one that’s better than anything I could make: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-iMac-Intel-17-Inch-Hard-Drive-Replacement/891/1 I did do some things differently though. I didn’t completely take off the front cover, the iSight cable was long enough to prop up next to the [...] Read more »
I recently bought a used 17″ iMac, 2 GHz, 1GB of RAM, with a 160GB hard drive. Don’t think this is the end of the hackintosh tutorials though, I’ll still do those. I will also post a tutorial on how to upgrade the hard drive and RAM in the iMac later this year. Tweet Read more »