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How to run MAC OSX leopard on ordinary Intel/AMD machine ? Answer is here first of all you have to download a modified version of OSX called OSX86.Find it on your faviourate Bittorrent site.For new user’s i recommend Kalyway you can also check your system compaitibilty here. This guide will show you how to make a Dual Boot 10.5.X OSX86 System with WINDOWS VISTA . Use this guide with your favourite distro { Kalyway | iAtkos | Leo4all | Jas | iDeneb | iPC }

1.      First of all you have to install Vista. It’s easy and I m sure that you are familiar with it.

2.     Now comes to  Partitioning before installing OSX you need to have a partition of minimum 10 GB recommended 20 GB+ . The partition must be formatted as FAT-32 Primary Partition.

You can use Partition Magic or Gparted live cd or Windows Disk Management.

3.      Boot into Windows installation and open Command Prompt { Start < All Program < Accessories < Command prompt } With Administrative Privillage and run following commands.

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As you may know already, I recently purchased an iMac. It arrived this past Thursday and I’ve been waiting to post about my experiences until I had lived with my new friend for a few days.

I’m no stranger to the Macintosh – I was once a “die-hard Mac guy” – in fact, during my college days, I was a downright rabid ”fanboy”. That was, until I discovered two things – first the First Person Shooter, “Counter-Strike”, and secondly Linux. This is, however the first Mac I’ve had as a “main system”  in – I guess, 8 or 9 years now, and is the first Mac I’ve owned that was faster than a G3! I do still have my old PowerMac 7200/120 in the closet – I created some awesome music on that guy, and I can’t bear to let him go – there are a lot of memories in that plain beige desktop!

A while back, I was loaned a MacBook Pro from my job which I used to get a taste of what the Mac has become in the last 10 years or so, and I really “dug it”. It was as if the best of two worlds were merged for me – the power of UNIX, with the commercial application support of a truly mainstream Operating System. I was able to use that system for about 3 months (although as a secondary system) and I really liked it – it sparked an interest in both the Mac OS as well as Apple Hardware again.

At home, on a couple of different systems, I toyed around with doing “Hackintosh” installs – I really liked the OS, and I got it working pretty well on two different boxes, at two different times, but it never really “felt” stable too me. It always felt kinda like a house of cards in a hurricane – I knew it was a matter of time before something (probably an update) would send the whole thing crashing down around me. It just never “felt right” – it wasn’t a “real mac”. It was like having a Jetta and pretending I had an Audi.

My biggest problem was I had just built a new PC – two in fact (I wasn’t satisfied with my initial AMD based build and sold it) and also had another very decent PC in the house. So, as you may have read in a previous post, I took the two systems, intertwined some of the parts and came up with both a nicely sellable Core2Duo system which hit eBay, and a nicely equipped Core2Quad which stayed here as the “downstairs” family PC (and my CS & CS:Source box).

So much for the backstory – on to the new family member!

Once I decided I wanted to get a Mac it was a very difficult decision deciding what I wanted to get. First, I didn’t have much more than $700 I would be able to spend, and I wanted to get the most performance and “best experience” I could buy for that amount of money. I considered two options - either a used Intel iMac or a new Intel Mini. I didn’t even consider a used, refurbished or clearance Mini since I most definitely did NOT want Intel GMA graphics. There were two things I wasn’t crazy about in the Mini – first was the use of a notebook hard drive. Even the 7,200RPM notebook hard drives aren’t nearly as speedy as their desktop counter-parts (to make matters worse the Mini’s ship w/ 5,400RPM drives), and secondly even though the “new” Mini’s support Nvidia graphics, it’s a low-end chip that still shares system RAM…a big no-no in my book. Even with those shortcomings, it appeared that I was going to end up with the Mini. All of the Intel 20″+ iMac’s I came across were above my spending limit. 

(Note: The resell value of Mac’s have always amazed me – 7 year old G4 PowerMac systems are still going on eBay for the cost of a new entry – mid level Dell!)

In a recent post I blogged about my frustration with Paypal, and how I’ve never bought into the “good things come to those who wait”, yet this time it came true for me. One the very day all of my funds were secured, I went to eBay – into the “Apple Desktops” category and sorted by “ending soonest” and I came across my new friend. It’s previous owner obviously wasn’t a “Mac Guy” or better yet, probably not a “computer guy” of any sort. He had a very confusing listing, and even had this machine listed with the G5 iMacs, and bidding hadn’t really shot up on it into the range of other similar systems. After reading through some answers he’d posted to other bidder’s questions, I determined that this machine would probably work for me, but I had to act quick – the auction ended in 3 minutes…in a brief moment of insanity, and the knowledge that I could re-list it with a sane product description and recoup my funds if needed, I bid $3 higher than the current bid, and told myself I wouldn’t bid any further – I would either win it, or I’d buy the Mini from Apple. Well, sure enough, I won it, and I’m happy with what I got. It’s the “last of the white iMacs” a C2D 2.0 with 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, SuperDrive and an ATI x1600 Graphics Chip. I also invested a small amount into a MiniDVI to DVI adapter which allows me to use my 22″ Hannspree LCD as a secondary monitor in Extended desktop – I’m loving having 3360×1050 resolution at my disposal as both my “old” 22″ and the 20″ iMac display both run at 1680×1050.

First impressions? Well I love it! It’s not “cutting-edge” but is more machine than I “need” at the moment – it’s running very well, even using VMWare Fusion to virutalize an XP and Ubuntu install. It “feels” much better than either of the “Hackintosh” systems I’d set up – and boots very fast (EFI is so much better than a BIOS)…not to mention Sleep/Resume works so much better on a Mac than any PC I’ve ever used. The great thing is – buying used, I’ll lose even less resell value, and I’m 100% confident I can use this system for at least 2 years, and still sell it for more than I just sold an 1 year-old PC for on eBay, and by then I’m sure many great things like SSD’s will not only be standard but WAY down in price, and who knows what the Mac line-up would look like! Even though this system is already a year and a half old, there really isn’t anything (outside of the Mac Pro Xeon powerhouse) on Apple.com that out-specs this guy in a way that it would provide a drastically different computing experience, which makes me feel a huge amount of added value by purchasing a “previously loved” Mac.

Expect lots more blog-posts to come as I learn my way around better – I’m loving lots of the features of Leopard, specifically TimeMachine, so I see a blog post on that in my future for sure!

So, although according to the commercials, you’re either a Mac or a PC, I can say I’m both – I’m a Mac AND a PC depending on where I’m sitting at the moment!

As you saw from my last post where I was fighting with eBay and PayPal, I sold off a bunch of unneeded, and unused computers and computer equipment from around my house. I’m very proud of being able to “let go” of some of this stuff (I tend to be a pack-rat). I honestly came to a realization that no, I won’t ever need that old Socket A CPU I’ve been hanging onto for 5 years

I also made two realizations/decisions about my personal computer here. First, I overbuilt – seriously. I let myself get sucked into an “addiction” I’d broken many years ago – “Benchmark Mania”. I started reading sites such as Tom’s Hardware, Anandtech and ExtremeTech again, and reading about 3DMark scores, and Cinebench Scores, and HDTach scores, and this score, and that score and every little score score…

It really is a vicsious cycle, and it does become addicting (and expensive)…for those who need something to relate too, it’s like hot-rodding cars – there is always something faster, and it’s impossible to keep up.

What I wound up with was a hulking, power-hungry (power-sucking) Overclocked Quad-Core monster with more RAM and more HDD space that I would ever come close to tapping into, unless I was running a benchmark. For day to day tasks, it was really no different, or no faster than the last 3 computers I’ve built – honestly.

Also, I decided that once and for all, I want to be a Mac user again. Messing around with my Hackintosh install of Leopard was the most “fun” I’d had with a computer in ages. Yes, part of it was the “hacking” part of it – you know, making something workt that by all accounts shouldn’t work. But part of it was realizing how much I love the MacOS, and how much better it is at doing what I want to do than either Windows, or any of the many Linux distributions out there. I’m really ready for some simplicity. I also want to get back into doing Music on my Computer again – Composing, Recording and MIDI Sequencing, and I still (and always will) feel that nothing is a better platform for a creative mind than a Macintosh. Also, for a few months I had a chance to use a MacBook Pro at work, and although it wound up going on to someone else, I really developed a love for that little machine (as much as you could love a computer), and it cemented the fact that even after all of these years away, I really *was* a “Mac Guy”, and I missed having one.

So, here is what I did.

First, I shuffled some parts around between my PC (I had just built) and the “Downstairs PC” which was my old PC and between the two built a more “sensible” downstairs PC using the awesome Antec 900 case, Q6600 and Gigabyte motherboard that was in my “new” PC.

I ditched the stupidest purchase I’d ever made – the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM drive. That was the biggest waste of money in the PC, because in reality it made very little difference outside of benchmarks (due to newer OSes doing such a great job with caching), although it *did* boot up a few seconds faster (I rarely reboot anyway – just suspend/resume). The 10K drive, even after being used for several months came just dollars shy of what I paid on NewEgg brand new (eBay amazes me sometimes).

For the “Downstairs PC” I planned to just run Windows XP (32-bit) on the downstairs PC (at least for now), so I left just 4GB of RAM in it (it sees 3.5GB), and about 750GB of HDD Space. I also backed off the overclock, and turned on EIST and C1E to throttle the CPU down when not under heavy load.

That left me with a nice Dual-core, Core2Duo based PC w/ 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD to list on eBay. That was the bulk of my “Mac Money” right there, and I was pleased with what it brought, and I enjoyed talking with the buyer and helping them set up Ubuntu on it!

Also, I “stripped and parted” my other 4 old computers I had up here, and sold the components separately – I’m pretty sure I made more money that way, and components are easier and cheaper to ship than whole PC’s (although it made for more auctions to keep up with). The only parts I did not sell were the Motherboards (simply in case a friend with an older PC has a Mobo die, and “older socket” Mobo’s are hard to find), and the PSU’s – you never know when you’ll need a good Power Supply.

After all of this is said and done, and my new iMac is delivered next week, this will be the computing make-up of my home network:

Upstairs in my bedroom/man-cave I’ll have my new 20″ iMac (which will also be running my left-over 22″ LCD in Extended Desktop mode, which means I’ll have a whopping 3360×1050 pixels of screen-space).

Mom is keeping her old P4 in her room – it only gets booted up for about 30-mins maybe twice a week.

Downstairs is a nice Quad core PC w/ a decent vid card running XP Pro for Mom to use during the day, and for me to “Game” on when I feel like a few rounds of Counter-Strike or Counter-Strike:Source. I fully expect this “Downstairs PC” to last for many years w/o any significant upgrades, although I will probably drop some more RAM in it and upgrade it to Windows 7 at some point – after I convince Mom that it really is better than XP

The best part – even after buing the iMac (it’s already been paid for and on the way, along w/ the MiniDVI to DVI adapter to hook up my 22″), I ended up with $125 more in my Bank Account than I started with.

The one that works the best for you.

I’ve been experimenting some lately – thinking outside the box. I’ve been trying to analyse the way I interact with my computer, and how it changes depending on what Operating System I am using. (Yes, I’m that much of a Nerd). It does make a difference.

I have 3 bootable OSes on my machine at the moment. Over the past week or so, I’ve not been “suspending” my machine, but rather shutting it down, and I’ve set my BIOS to display a boot menu. I have to consciously decide which OS.

My choices?

Fedora 11 Snapshot

Windows 7 RC

Leopard (Hackintosh/OSX86)

Each OS is very different, and have different interfaces. Which is the best, which is the worst? I don’t think I can answer that. I have come to some conclusions though.

Fedora is very interesting, and I’m constantly learning something, and trying new things. As much as I like it, and enjoy learning more about it, it kinda gets in the way, and I end up treating the OS itself as an application, rather than a platform upon which to run applications.

Windows 7 is new and exciting. It is viewed by many to be the saviour of a large company in the US Pacific Northwest, and fixes many problems owned by it’s predecessor.  As “new and exciting” it is, after a little use, it just becomes “more of the same”. Outside of a few new features, there really isn’t that much exciting after all, and it does what it does well. It can get out of the way, and simply play a supporting role, once you get past the newness.

Leopard, ironically, is the one I end up booting into. I spent most of yesterday in Fedora because of an online “class” being held in IRC involving KVM and libvirtd, but for the most part, since getting a working “Hackintosh’ system going, it’s where I’ve been “living” most of the time. What I’ve noticed about Leopard is that once you get it set up, it just does it’s thing, and you forget that you are running a “OS” and you focus on running your “Applications”, which is what an OS is supposed to do.

The point of this post – it goes back to Linux (as do most of my posts). Historically, Linux has tried to compete with Windows, and win over Windows users. I think this is the biggest mistake. I think Linux should strive to be more in the vein of what the Mac OS can do – run applications, and get out of the way. The first part is the hardest – we need to get “familiar” applications in Linux first. There is a lot shared under the hood between the two OSes (UNIX roots and all), and I don’t think this will be hard to achieve.

Do you agree? Post your comments below.

…when you think you’ve done everything you could possibly do to (with?) your PC?

You turn it into a Mac of course!

Please don’t get into a discussion with me about Apple’s EULA for the Mac OS. Since I have gotten this working, I have done two things. First, I purchased a Leopard License (actually, I bought the Family 3-pack, in case I want to do it again), and I put a nice apple sticker on the back of my PC, so that it is “Apple Branded” now…(that was their terminology, not mine).

Now, here is a little commentary on setting it up.

First…it was easy. It was very easy. I downloaded the iPC Leopard 10.5.6 .iso (don’t ask me where to get it), which is simply a Leopard image with patches and drivers to make it easy to install on a BIOS enabled PC (Apple computers do not have a BIOS if you didn’t know - that’s why you need Boot Camp to install Windows). I checked the OSX86 Wiki and the iPC Blog/Website and gather information and instructions before beginning. Luckily on the Wiki, I found others who had my motherboard, and other similar hardware, so it was easy to know what drivers to select when installing the OS (apparently it’s *bad* to install drivers you don’t need - apparently confuses the kernel). Other than that, it was as easy as any other OS install I’ve ever done.

The good:

Everything works - Video Works (w/ Quartz Extreme), Sound, Networking, Sleep…everything - it’s just like a “real” Mac, just in a much cooler case (both literally, and figuratively).

Why did I do it? Well, I like the Mac OS (duh!). I had a MacBook Pro through work, but I had to give that guy up to someone who needed it more than I did, and I missed having a Mac. When I build this new PC I not only wanted to buy a Mac, I really considered it. However, the only problem was, all I could have afforded was a bare bones, lowest end (last gen) MacBook, or a slightly upgraded Mac Mini - neither of which would have given me the performance I would have wanted.

So, what did I end up with by doing this? Basically, I have the performance of a nicely upgraded MacPro. Here are the “basic” specs of my “H4ck|nt0$h”:

• Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (Overclocked to 3.0GHz)
• 8GB DDR2 800 RAM
• WD VelociRaptor 10K System Drive
• WD 7.2K 320 & 1TB Data drives

The result, a very fast Mac system - I’m blown away by the speed. Since building this PC, I’ve played around with OSes (that’s nothing new for me, if you’ve followed this blog), I have had WinXP x64, Win Vista x64, Win7 Beta x64, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu x64 and Fedora x64. All were fast (this is a fast machine regardless), but nothing and I mean  nothing compares to Leopard on this box. It boots very quickly (wish it bypassed all that BIOS crap like a “real” Mac though), applications launch instantaneously, and this afternoon I purchased VMware Fusion and loaded it, and it’s one heck of a nice Virtualization platform as well (for those who are wondering, I decided to go “premium” and get VMware instead of using VirtualBox, because who knows what Oracle will do with VirtualBox once they get ahold of it - plus VMware does perform a little better).

Now, this may seem absurd to some of you who haven’t been around Mac’s very long, but “back in the day” Mac Clones were fairly common - I had one of these guys and it was a heck of a machine - far more machine than I could have afforded had I gone Apple.

(steps onto soapbox)

I really hope Apple will pull their heads out of the sand, and look at this HUGE “OSX86″ community that has sprouted - it’s by far as big of a community as many mainstream Linux distros - people helping each other get this to work, and it’s gotten surprisingly easy. If a bunch of “geeks” out on the web can build PC’s with off-the-shelf components and/or just buy a Dell or HP and load Leopard on it, why on earth Apple, won’t you just leave them (and Pystar) alone, and let them do it! Don’t you realize how many people hate Vista, and what it would do to your market share and installed base? Get with the 21st century.

(steps down from soapbox, and goes back to playing with his “Mac”)