So I was bored the other day and I decided to transform my laptop from acer aspire, to acer macspire (laughs!). I decided to give MacOS for x86 another try! Downloaded Ipc and installed on my laptop, finally for the second time I have a working MacOS on my laptop (dual booted to windows vista). I sacrificed my Linux partition on this one, since I had limited HDD space but nevertheless I am really happy!
Nearly everything works on it, Graphics adapter (nVidia GeForce 9500M GS, with QE enabled), audio is ok, wired networking is ok (with small hacks) and the only part I had some problems was my wireless card. I decided to hack even more in it, so I ordered from ebay a mini pci-e wifi replacement (Dell 1490) which is fully compatible with MacOS and I am waiting next week for it to arrive in my hands.
I didn’t test my Bluetooth connection (rarely use it), my webcam (never actually used it as well), and my card reader (does not support CF cards, so I never use it as well) although I am sure the last will most certainly not work, since most onboard card readers are not functioning.
The experience is wonderful, and everything seems to be running smoothly and nicely, I have given photoshop a try, and I also downloaded aperture to run a test on it (I am totally ignorant with aperture since I have never used it before!).
The hackintosh project is steadily growing and more people are getting involved, hardware is a small issue with the community, since it’s on a very early stage! Not much out there, but most laptops are good to go since the decision of Apple to move to Intel based hardware.
I made a nice test, and worked on a few images inside osx and photoshop, I was really impressed with the way osx handles everything! If you have Linux background experience it’s rather easy to find your way around the osx, and even easier to make you necessary hacks to get your hardware up and running.
My next step once my wifi card arrives will be trying a retail installation! A bit more advanced as a task, but worth trying (allows you to have vanilla updated straight from Apple).
I hard stressed the system to see if there would be any kind of bugs or problems, and I must say I had zero! No problems whatsoever, under heavy photoshop work (TIFF files open for editing) and quicktime playing a few avi files (Lost ) just to see how everything would respond, and indeed it worked flawlessly!
Furthermore there is a photography contest ongoing localy in Greece, and we have a few participants (me included) from DA! KirlianCamera, and Justeline are also taking part at it (actually they were the ones that first mentioned and I found out!) so If you are bored, or if you like any work from us, just shoot a few stars toward our direction (although I am left really behind! LOL)
My entry is:
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KirlianCamera entry is:
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And Justelines entry is:
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