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 »
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 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 »
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 »
I’ve been using the Apple wireless keyboard for a few days now. If you own an Apple laptop or have used their wired keyboard, then you already have an idea of what the wireless keyboard is like because they are pretty much the same. To me, it’s pretty comfortable to type on, and I can [...] 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 »
Update: You can download the kext file using the link at the end of the post if you don’t want to follow these instructions. I finally got tired of having to manually change the sound output every time I started the computer, so I spent some time trying out different things and came up with [...] 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 »