My Hackintosh

pika69 · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 6:17 pm

So, I decided to put Apple OS X (10.4.6 to be exact) on my Dell Inspiron 1100...everything turned out great! I originally had it on a 10 GB partition that would dual boot with Windows XP, but since I decided that Mac pwns XP, I just deleted the partitions and created one Mac partition...
It runs much cooler than it did with XP, but there are some minor problems with playing WMV files, as I have yet to find a converter...

Has anyone else done this?

Adbot · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 6:17 pm

Kyle · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 6:32 pm

lol ive never heard if anyone besides you doing this....ive never delt with mac so i cant say xp is better, im glad its working for you and maybe in a couple weeks follow up ont this thread and tell us how its working.

Mr Pink · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 7:10 pm

I had seing newest Mac commercial where they made fun of Microsoft, and that how Mac is capable with everything.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jlm6QS ... commercial

pika69 · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 7:52 pm

Ok, get this...

I have a JVC camcorder which i took the pics with. Now, on windows, you need to install the JVC software, drivers, photoeditor software, all that, and then your camera might work. On mac, without any drivers or anything for the jvc, i just plug it in and it reads that it's a, sd card and i can just get my pics off. Easy as that.

Lance · **Posted:** July 22nd, 2006, 7:56 pm

I worked with that software but just for Graphic Design. Also you Inspiron 1100 me Inspiron 1200 Only diffrence is the number basicly. Though I got Nothing for you...Congrats of putting mac on your laptop!

MattVortex · **Posted:** July 23rd, 2006, 3:21 am

How exactly did you put OSX on your laptop? Im thinking of doing it myself. I have a 12GB Ubuntu Linux partition at the moment that doesnt work, and I cant be bothered to fix it, to be honest. OSX would be a lot better.

Adbot · **Posted:** July 23rd, 2006, 3:21 am

Shane · **Posted:** July 23rd, 2006, 9:30 pm

MasterOfTheVortex wrote:

How exactly did you put OSX on your laptop? Im thinking of doing it myself. I have a 12GB Ubuntu Linux partition at the moment that doesnt work, and I cant be bothered to fix it, to be honest. OSX would be a lot better.

Putting OS X on your non-mac machine is illegal unless:
You are an apple developer and have the developer version to play with
You already have a copy of OS X that you want to put on.

So we can't really allow an exact description as to how exactly to put it on your computer

I have not used OS X personally but I know it's good as it's Unix based.

MattVortex · **Posted:** July 24th, 2006, 2:42 am

Well i was actually considering buying OSX, then putting it on there. But im sure it needs some kind of hack to be able to run properly.

Quote:

I have not used OS X personally but I know it's good as it's Unix based.

Not everything unix-based is good, Shane. A lot is, but not everything. Linux and Unix machines often dont have the same compatibility as a windows machine; there are many things that wont work.

Im sure I can get something up on google about how to get OSX on a windows machine. Thanks anyway.

Evelyn · **Posted:** July 24th, 2006, 9:45 am

Dell huh? Hope it blows up. How could you... installing mac, at all.

MACS R EVIL

pika69 · **Posted:** July 24th, 2006, 7:46 pm

Haha, I remember seeing this video of a dell laptop blowing up at some japanese business meeting, I think it was the battery.

Anyways, everything seems fine, and I believe it actually runs cooler with Mac.

Evelyn · **Posted:** July 24th, 2006, 11:36 pm

pika69 wrote:

Haha, I remember seeing this video of a dell laptop blowing up at some japanese business meeting, I think it was the battery.

Anyways, everything seems fine, and I believe it actually runs cooler with Mac.

Video?
GIMME!

pika69 · **Posted:** July 25th, 2006, 12:24 am

Yeah, I just found that creepy posted a topic about it in non rs talk...
Im sure the video is still on youtube or googlevideo, where ever i saw it.

Mikhail · **Posted:** July 25th, 2006, 12:44 am

pika69 wrote:

So, I decided to put Apple OS X (10.4.6 to be exact) on my Dell Inspiron 1100...everything turned out great! I originally had it on a 10 GB partition that would dual boot with Windows XP, but since I decided that Mac pwns XP, I just deleted the partitions and created one Mac partition...
It runs much cooler than it did with XP, but there are some minor problems with playing WMV files, as I have yet to find a converter...

Has anyone else done this?

This is illegal to do but you may if your a mac developer, well i never heard about anyone installing mac os on their windows pc but i heard that one guy installed Windows XP on mac computer.

really mac sucks except i like it for its desktop graphics (only graphics design usually use while making sigs)

pika69 · **Posted:** July 25th, 2006, 12:55 am

Mac has a program called bootcamp which lets you run windows on an Intel Mac. It's nothing out of the ordinary.

Panda200x · **Posted:** July 26th, 2006, 12:26 pm

lucky, I tried installing OS X on my box but the disk got messed (black and white screen :S) so I couldn't install, any help pika?