An InsanelyMac forum member has developed a replacement kernel for installation on Atom-equipped hackintosh netbooks, TUAW reports. Going by the screen name of teateam, the guy offers a download and urges fellow forum members to test his patch. Most of those running OS X Snow Leopard on hacked laptops say the patch i... |
20 November 2009
09:14 GMT |
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Apple appears to have finally put the lid on Intel Atom support with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 yesterday, notable hackintosh sources say. The most prominent of the lot, StellaRola, signaled a while back that developer builds of OS X 10.6.2 had already dropped support, although one of the latest 10.6.2 betas seem... |
10 November 2009
08:56 GMT |
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Reports have confirmed that, although the Mac OS X 10.6.2 update isn’t out yet for Snow Leopard, it does kill support for the Intel Atom processor. Mac OS X running on this architecture can only be what is known as a “Hackintosh” (a non-Apple computer running Mac OS X by means of hacks), as Apple ha... |
2 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Twitter user @stroughtonsmith, an Irish iPhone developer described as an "all-around Apple geek," has leaked what is likely one of the first Snow Leopard hackintosh photos available on the Internet, a TUAW piece informs. The hack was achieved on an Eee PC 901 netbook. The About This Mac window shows "Build 10A432" (t... |
17 August 2009
10:42 GMT |
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Since it started in April 2008 with the launch of the Open Mac (later renamed as the Open Computer) by Psystar Corporation, the Mac clone phenomenon has gathered momentum and now we can witness a global scale move towards migrating OS X to non Apple labeled machines. The Psystar saga continued during the last year an... |
1 June 2009
12:11 GMT |
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MacRumors has picked up on a Wired piece citing Hackintosh users who've recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.7, the latest version of the Leopard operating system, to find that their computers' battery life has substantially improved. Hackintoshes are computers hacked to run Apple's Mac OS X. The ... |
15 May 2009
04:50 GMT |
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According to this screenshot (courtesy of CultOfMac), one guy was apparently able to run a total of 80 Mac OS X applications on an Advent 4211, with both Blender and Daz3D launched. The system, hacked in order to be able to run OS X, boasts an Atom N270 @1.6ghz and 2Gb RAM, according to the list of specs.Pointing out... |
10 February 2009
06:29 GMT |
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Apple is known to hate everything and everyone involved with running OS X on non-Apple branded machines, let alone running hacked versions of its OS on such hardware. As such, Apple has asked Wired's gadget blog to pull a video demonstration of how to install OS X on a non-Apple netbook. Originally, it was repor... |
15 January 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Pictures of a MacBook nano based on the MSI U100 netbook have surfaced on the web. The 1.6GHz Atom-based machine sports a 10" display, 2GB DDR 2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and weighs just 2.2 lbs.Had someone told us this was an actual netbook coming from Cupertino, we probably wouldn't have rushed to dismiss the a... |
11 November 2008
04:58 GMT |
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Tired of Brick rumors? We didn't think so. Therefore, here's what we found (click picture to enlarge). The first thing you need to know about this clean looking MacBook mini is that it packs a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB or memory, 80GB storage, and runs Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopoard like a charm.The other thing ... |
3 October 2008
22:01 GMT |
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