my HP mini Hackintosh Updated to Snow Leopard!

A while ago I decided to jump in and upgrade to 10.6 on my HP mini 1030. It had been a while since I did 10.5, and I was in the mood for a bit of hackery. I initially followed the first set of directions from mymacbookmini.com and I had very mixed results. The terminal …

Hackintosh HP Mini 1000! OS X 10.5.8

hackintosh explained A hackintosh is a computer that started its life as a pc and had had osx massaged onto it. This has been made possible by apple’s move to intel based machines. If a machine has a similar enough hardware profile to existing apple hardware, then it is generally possible. who should do this? …

Hackintosh pre post – reclaiming screen real estate

Two days ago I got an HP mini 1030 netbook (1000 family) and have been working on putting the mac OS 10.5.8 on it. It seems like it ought to be the simplest thing, but there are a lot of different versions of firmware hardware and software out there that make finding the right install …