I'm oh so happy. I have managed through a few days of work (about 6 hours in total) to get OSX86 10.5.6 running on my Dell X300 laptop. While a little slow due to the X300 being from 2005 and only an intel core single 1.2Ghz Pentium M with 640Mb ram it's still pretty damn good.I'm super stoked to have a 'mac laptop' again as I really miss the simplicity with which I used to acomplish my tasks at home. I like my ACER Windows based laptop from work but I also feel restricted on it's use as OBVIOUSLY it's my works laptop.
The installation of OSX86 was pretty straight forward and you gotta give some serious props to the folks who have put their time and effort in to making it that way. The forums of infinitemac.com and others really help if you plan on doing this project yourself. I'm super interested in trying it out on other PC's like the IBM T60 core 2 duo.
The project manager of technology has a few IBMs and has been eyeing the project for a while, I showed him the X300 and now he wants me to work with him getting one or more of his units running. lol. Gladly I will do it as he got me the X300 as a write off from work.
This all came after struggling (again) with Ubuntu. I am just a GUI kind of guy and I like the functionallity of this OSX86 over the Ubuntu system for what I do. I spent maybe 14-18 hours working on getting my wireless card working on Ubuntu 9 where the brunt of my time on OSX86 was adding a flag to my com.apple.bootloader.plist file - which wasn't that much time. I do have to say that Ubuntu 9 lives up to the reviews and is an amazing piece of software and runs very very well with many great applications and features. Just - you need to be more of a jump in tech guy who loves command lines, wrappers and all the other things that come along with a pure linux system I guess.
For now tho - WOOT~! HACKINTOSH.
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I did an IBM X40 (1.4Ghz and 1G ram) with OSX86 10.5.4, and it was flawless (once I figured out which install options I should/shouldn't use).
Like, even the wifi, and I can't say that for half the distros of Linux out there.
Ubuntu 9.04 seems pretty stable, maybe go dual boot? Or triple, with Win7?
Maniacs. All of us.
Hey Zen,
Would you kindly post which distribution and settings you used? I am trying to build a thinkpad x40 hackintosh machine myself. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Hi There,
I own a Dell X300 as well and tried an iAtkos hackintosh setup with no success. It gets stuck while its booting up with a spinning cursor.
Could you please post the version you used for your laptop? And also if you had to disable any devices while installing it?
Many thanks,
LM
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