Acer Aspire 4730Z

Tell us what hardware it has so we could tell anything. Need to know at least cpu, chipset, gfx card.

Aspire 4730z
Intel Pentium dual cpu T3400 2.16GHz
4 GB ram
Intel® GMA 4500M
atheros AR5B91 Wireless network adapter
Chipset Mobile Intel® GL40 Express

4730z

I have the same computer if you just wanna run OS X it works fine I couldn't get audio or wireless drivers to work hope that helps

How do you install OS X on the Acer Aspire 4730Z

Can you simply load OS X on the Aspire? Or does this require a hack?

Any ideas on how to get the drivers to work?

thanks,

Rangerdon

Installing

I have iatkos v7 installed almost no issues. Only complication was I had to buy a dell 1505 wifi card which really wasn't that bad. Other than that have had no issues with OS X runs just as good if not better than a macbook pro. If you have any questions about drivers just reply to this post

what did you use for graphics driver ?
how does it work

Hi everybody, i need some help. I have an acer aspire 4730z and i want to install OS X. Can somebody guide me through the process?

@Stan22490I have iatkos v7 installed almost no issues. Only complication was I had to buy a dell 1505 wifi card which really wasn't that bad. Other than that have had no issues with OS X runs just as good if not better than a macbook pro. If you have any questions about drivers just reply to this post

Hi Stan,

How did you able to install the iatkos v7 on Aspire 4730z I need help. I have the same model and for a week i was trying to install iatkos_v7 and I could not get the installer to run.

The first attempt I tried I was getting "still waiting for root device" errors but I got pass that error using this boot flags rd=disk0. Right now I have CPU kernel Vodoo panic when using that boot flag rd=disk0 it says nfs_boot failed..

I am assuming that nfs is for network file system so I turned off the network boot on the bios but still got the same error.

what's your boot parameter when you installed the iatkos_v7 can you let me know please.

anyone please help.

@philcebutvHow did you able to install the iatkos v7 on Aspire 4730z I need help. I have the same model and for a week i was trying to install iatkos_v7 and I could not get the installer to run. The first attempt I tried I was getting "still waiting for root device" errors but I got pass that error using this boot flags rd=disk0. Right now I…

dude . the reason ur getting waiting for boot is because u haven't installed the right chipset drivers. . also . i been able to get every thing up and running with vanilla kernel

Video intel 4500 -> with x4500 patch got Native resolution but no QE
sound -> Voodoo HDA
Battery -> AcpiBatteryManagement
Wifi -> Replaced wifi card
webcam - > installed but wont work as the video drivers dont install
Touch pad -> i am not able to get voodoo ps2 to work . if any one can help let me know

the only issue i have is the laptop shuts off in random in an hour even after been plugged into power supply. I have installed osx on a lot of laptops never had this issue .

This does not happen in vista.

if any one can help me …

fixed the random shutting off issue. It was a bios update that fixed this. This was related to the cpu fan shutting off when loading osx.

the only thing left now is the touch pad . has any one got that to work ?

4730Z Touchpad

I got the Touchpad working with voodoo ps2 kext. I did try the ps2/trackpad kext but did not allow for adjusting mouse track speed.

I switch wifi cards to the dell 1550. I still have some pci things not working. and no Quartz Extreme.

Let me know if this helps.

acer aspire 4730

hello i have dual booted my acer aspire 4730z and everything exept my sound and wifi works can anyone help me solve these problems thanks