Oliver Erlewein on August 8th, 2009

Today i installed the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Combo Update on my Atom 330 Mac (see below). After a reboot it was back to 1024×768 only. So I guessed the driver Kexts were overwritten by the upgrade. Just re-install the Kexts and all should be working a-OK. Hyperthreading is still not supported. Am now pretty [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 12th, 2009

Now for the hopefully last of the steps to a happy HTPC Mac. So far all has gone well and nothing terrible happened.
As I said in post 1 I got my first inspiration from here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/21564/Building_a_Hackintosh_Apple_Can_t_Sue_You_
Basically the interesting part being able to use the standard OS install. I pretty much followed the instructions on that page. [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 10th, 2009

Sorry for the delay. Got lots of work on at the moment. now for the putting it all together part….
First we need to put all the hardware together. Well…actually we first need to take it apart. The case that is. And that then looks something like this:

The case has lots of space and the mainboard [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on June 7th, 2009

Last week I started with a new project. Our 1.42Ghz G4 Mac Mini was getting somewhat old in the tooth. So I thought it’s about time to replace the good old thing. Problem is that the exchange rate at the moment is making it impossible to buy a new Mac Mini. I’d have to shell [...]

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Oliver Erlewein on December 1st, 2007

I spent the last two weeks experimenting with Mac OS X on a standard PC. The challenge was a mighty one I must admit. There’s several Hackintosh sites out there with a multitude of descriptions of what to do. The art is to pick the ones that are suitable for you.
I started out with an [...]

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