smithyandco Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Get your own thread.This has nothing to do with Hackintosh projects. What if you install OSX on your Xbox-PC? Not to mention that an XBOX original can run OSX... albeit slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 Get your own thread.This has nothing to do with Hackintosh projects. What if you install OSX on your Xbox-PC? Not to mention that an XBOX original can run OSX... albeit slowly Natively?Please share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyandco Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Natively?Please share?Not natively... You need to install Linux first then run PearPC... They are not exactly powerful beasts... but still capable of 1080i Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 Natively?Please share?Not natively... You need to install Linux first then run PearPC... They are not exactly powerful beasts... but still capable of 1080i Any idea what version of osx it runs then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithyandco Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 Any idea what version of osx it runs then?No idea if I'm honest... I've got as a far as Linux on an XBOX but not any further! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted February 11, 2012 Author Share Posted February 11, 2012 (edited) Well to be fair, what I want is full osx systems that will run no lower than osx snow leopard with all hardware running as it should.Gimmick lookalikes or under performing copies are of no use to me I'm afraid.Running hardware and making it run slower than it's native OS is pretty pointless. Edited February 11, 2012 by PeeWee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I'm contemplating installing OS X Lion on an inspiron 530 as I'm getting bored - any pointers? How stable has the hackintosh been since you made it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) Mine is rock solid, theres no emulation this is purely native osx running from boot.Using my one daily in work and its spot on.Not sure about the inspiron with Lion though, is it a 64 bit machine?Just checked, it appears so, have you looked up how compatible it is? Edited July 16, 2012 by PeeWee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) Found these, should help.Read lots of furums and look up any issues.http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=253697 Read through tonymacx86 forums, sign up ask questions get tips. http://tonymacx86.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/u...lion-using.html Also purchase a retail copy of Lion, its only about $30. Edited July 16, 2012 by PeeWee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Yeah, that's the thread that got me thinking. I was mostly concerned with the stability of yours, although I guess this will vary between machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 Yeah, that's the thread that got me thinking. I was mostly concerned with the stability of yours, although I guess this will vary between machines.It will vary a bit but as long as you do your research you will be fine.It's a very worthwhile and cheap way to get an apple mac. Mine is rock solid with everything working as it should.You can pick a dell mini 10v up for just over £100 on ebay these days and it makes a very viable little macbook air alternative.Mine just runs just how it would if it was a genuine Mac. I forget that it was once a PC netbook its that good.My intention was to dual boot it with Windows 7 but as it runs so well as a native mac I didn't bother. With apple using intel now days all a macs are is a pc with certain parts. You can build a new i5 quad core mac with 4 gig of ram for around £350 which is great if you look how much the mac version would cost you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 I've already got a macbook pro, my desktop PC recently died and I acquired the inspiron 530. I need to reinstall 7 and Ubuntu, and I thought Id see whether it would run OS X and it does, so I might not bother with the other two if it runs well enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 How big is the hard drive?if it's say 160gig minimum then simply make two partitions and dual boot with Windows 7?Extra storage if needed can be done via USB external. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I've got a plethora of 500GB drives for this, as they've come out my old machine which could support more drives than a inspiron 530 can. I'll probably give OS X and 7 250GB a piece and then leave the other drive for data between the two. Whats OS X like for NTFS support? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Split the 500gb data drive too.You can use some of the osx data partition for time machine (bit like the idea behind windows restore except it works lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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