Turning my laptop into a Hackintosh
For the last couple of weeks I have been playing around with Mac OS X on my Compal IFL90 laptop. When Apple went from using the Power Mac architecture to using the Intel architecture a community called OSx86 was born. They have been working making OS X compatible for non-apple computers. The main problem is off course driver support.
Multibooting
First off I installed OS X on a 50 GB partition. After that I installed Ubuntu 8.10. At boot I simply choose OS X or Ubuntu 8.10 in grub.
Drivers
The biggest problem for Hackintosh users is the lack of drivers. As you all know, Apple only have to support a handful of hardware components. Developers from all around the world is doing something about this by porting open-source drivers to OS X. But still there is a lot of work remaining. If you’re planning to build yourself a Hackintosh you must check for driver compatibility before anything else! I actually have alot of driver problems myself. For example the driver for my Intel 4965 AGN simply doesnt exist, yet, but is under development. My nVidia 8600M GT is fully supported with the nVinject driver. I also have sound working. I connect to Internet through a Ralink RT2501 USB Dongle.
Stability
My system is not that stable yet, overheating and kernel panics occurs randomly and are quite annoying
Beauty
I am a big fan of OS X. Still, I hate Apple for overpricing their products. But my next computer is definitively going to be a MacBook or a MacBook Pro. Time will tell. Im still falling in love with OS X.
