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 »
Apple updated Lion to 10.7.2 a few days ago. I updated without any problems. Surprisingly, SleepEnabler didn’t cause any problems. Tweet Read more »
I recently built a new hackintosh using the Asus P8P67 LE motherboard. I’m not going to write a full tutorial for it, it’s basically the same process as the P5Q Pro Turbo, except most, if not all, kexts can be found in Tonymacx86′s Multibeast. It works well except for IDE, USB 3, and sleep. It’s [...] Read more »
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 »
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 »
Last weekend I replaced my stock Intel heatsink with the Corsair H50. I wasn’t happy with the temperatures I was getting with the stock Intel fan, and it was starting to get noisy (which would have been okay if it could pick a speed and stick with it). The H50 wasn’t too hard to install, [...] Read more »
Today Apple updated the Mac Pro, iMac, and introduced a couple new products. The Mac Pro got speed bumps on the four and eight core models, and they also added a 12 core option. It also now has options for solid-state drives. They also upgraded the graphics cards to the 5770 and the 5870. Unfortunately [...] Read more »
As some of you may know, Apple refreshed the Mac mini a few weeks ago. With this refresh, they increased the price to almost $700. I’m going to compare the specs of the Mac mini with some space-saving desktops from other brands to see if the mini is really worth the high price Apple charges. [...] Read more »
So theres this rumor that Apple will be announcing an iMac that’s iOS capable within the next 60 days. In my opinion this is BS. I really don’t think Apple would do this, there’s really no point. Nobody is going to want to sit 6 inches away from their 21” or 27” screen to be [...] Read more »