[SGVLUG] Any "hackintosh" experts on here?

[Stan Slonkosky]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC)
<Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> One of my co-workers asked me today about what it takes to install the Mac OS on an Intel-based laptop (seems he just bought one a week or two before the company assigned one to him, so he's free to "experiment" with his purchase)
>
> Who has done this?  What can one expect in the process?
>
> [oh, and this might make for a great topic to share at a future meeting...]
>
> [as well as a discussion on the differences between Apples version of "unix" they call Mac-OS and what we call "Linux"...]

I'm no expert on this, but if you Google around you will be able to
find instructions on how to do it. There are even Youtube videos of
people doing it. Sometimes you might have problems finding drivers and
may need to replace some hardware (e.g., wireless cards in laptops). A
year ago when I bought an MSI Wind netbook, I chose it partly because
people had been able to install OS X on it without replacing any of
the hardware (only I never bothered installing OS X). This was also
true of the Dell Mini 9.

I believe that OS X is based on BSD Unix.


-- 
Stan Slonkosky