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| HOW TO: Boot Mac Pro in AHCI mode under Vista and XP to use all 6 SATA ports I have originally made this post on the InsanelyMac forums but I feel that it may be better suited on this site where everyone seems to be more welcoming and just more helpful in general. I have made some updates to this post to include… | Guide AHCI / SATA · Retail DVD / USB | 338,350 reads 2009-06-17 · 6 notes |
| SnowyWindOSX Guys from the msiwind.net and insanelymac.com SnowyWindOSX people. Where are you? Dalton? | Report | 74,982 reads 2009-10-11 · 27 notes |
| Ext4 filesystem support for MacOSX i've been searching around if already someone did a kexts in order to add MacOSX support ext4 new filesystems available for linux, and nothing found, i would like to make a try, or at least start the digging for it. Actually i'm using ext4… | Report | 57,747 reads 2009-04-20 · 8 notes |
| What mouse are you using with your (Hack)Mac What mouse do you use and why? I've been using Apple's Mighty Mouse (with cable) for a long time and I love it. I wouldn't want to miss the tiny 360-degree scrolling ball and the design of the mouse. However, I have to admit that I haven't… | Report | 47,452 reads 2009-04-18 · 62 notes |
| Which Mac(s) do you use or own Which Apple Macs are you using at home or at work? : Who still owns a classic mac, such as the Macintosh Classic II? | Report | 35,779 reads 2009-04-23 · 31 notes |
| Apple Tablet If Apple releases a 9.6" multi-touch tablet computer with built-in 3G wireless connectivity in February 2010 at a price point between like $399 and $799, are you interested in buying one? | Report | 27,705 reads 2009-10-11 · 11 notes |
| The New iPad. Seen it? www.apple.com/ipad/ | Report | 24,816 reads 2010-01-27 · 8 notes |
| iPhone OS 3.0 & iPhone 3GS Well, probably many of you already know that, just want to notify those who missed it www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/ iPhone 3.0 with : - Copy&Paste - Horizontal Keyboard - MMS - AdHoc WiFi - Spotlight - And over 100 new functions… | Report | 19,554 reads 2009-03-31 · 24 notes |
| How good is your computer Rate it! On how good of a OS X system it is! Depending on what things worked straight out of the box, and what didn't, or what still doesn't I believe my comp would be the perfect hackmac because everything EXCEPT my sound is supported on… | Report Retail DVD / USB | 18,474 reads 2009-05-17 · 31 notes |
| Your opinion about Apple I wanted to ask the normal people about Apple. What do you think of their product palette, costs, support and so on. The guys in here which are owning a real Apple are totally pleased of them, but the most people in here don't have a real… | Report | 17,659 reads 2009-05-11 · 11 notes |
| new iMac; need to clone current one I'm not sure if anyone addressed this already but: I am upgrading my 20" iMac to the 27 I would like to clone this 20" and put the entire system on the new one seamlessly can this be done without installing everything one-by-one and using… | Report | 17,230 reads 2010-12-14 · 3 notes |
| HFS+ in Vista MacDrive and HFSExplorer will both do what I want. Kinda MacDrive is too expensive. HFS Explorer is read only. Is there a FREE driver for Vista/XP that will allow it to read AND WRITE TO a HFS+ (Journaled, Case Sensitive) partition? | Report | 13,482 reads 2009-05-16 · 8 notes |
| Mac OS X 10.5.4 Delta Update - 4 June 2008 Has anybody tried this? I only updated my system to 10.5.3 this week, but it appears an update is already available: Mac OS X 10.5.4 Delta Update - 4 June 2008. I think it's a pre-release build, so I won't jump on it yet, all the more so… | Report | 11,769 reads 2008-06-10 · 23 notes |
| Remove complete Intel code Does anyone know a method how to remove the Intel code from ALL system components of OS X? I need this for my Mac Mini G4 and my Powerbook. Apps like XSlimmer only trim Applications, not the system components. I read somewhere from a… | Report | 10,497 reads 2009-12-16 · 4 notes |
| 64-bit mode When installed on 64-bit system does Leopard runs automatically in 64-bit mode? | Report | 10,417 reads 2008-09-13 · 7 notes |
| Recommended App Store Apps Thought this would be a great way for us to discover other 'must have' apps. What apps/games would you recommend to others? This is what I have currently installed on my iPhone: Apps Manifesto - A great RSS feed reader Shazaam - For… | Dossier | 10,381 reads 2009-05-09 · 8 notes |
| can i install 10.6 on dell studio 1737 its a great forum of OS X 86,well i wanted to know,i have dell stdio 1737 laptop,can i install leopard or snow leopard on it,or iAtkos,ideneb or etc etc... my laptop specs are. 2.18ghz dual core intel 4gb ram 320gb hdd (c drive is 70gb)… | Report | 10,286 reads 2009-12-30 · 4 notes |
| Best Tutorials Post a list of the best tutorial websites to help your iPhone development get off the ground. The main ones I found are: icod eblog.com/ Simple tutorials on SQLite and a few other controls such as the TabBarView. This is the only site so… | Guide | 9,774 reads 2009-04-23 · 6 notes |
| Uninstalling iATKOS Hi, I'm wondering if I were to install iATKOS on my computer, would it be possible to uninstall it afterwards? making my computer back to window 7 only? And if its possible, how do I do it? | Report | 9,076 reads 2010-01-24 · 3 notes |
| Good Mac OS X reading material Apart from Apple's Dev site can anyone give me some recommendations on books or articles regarding OSX. I am thirsty for knowledge. | Report | 8,796 reads 2008-12-11 · 8 notes |
| OS X Tips and Tricks and Hotkeys Let's do a collection of Tips and Tricks or Gags or our beloved operating system. Ctrl+Win+Alt+8: Inverted screen, looks weird in color. Windows, have no shadows anymore, they are glowing holding F12: opens and closes the master DVD drive,… | Report | 8,457 reads 2008-04-28 · 14 notes |
| iPortable Snow on AMD Somewhat of a newbie here and just wanted to share what I have accomplished. Installed iPortable Snow x86 first on portable harddrive and was able to get it up and running per guide included in iPortable Snow x86 download. The motherboard… | Dossier AMD OSx86 · ATI Radeon | 8,276 reads 2010-02-26 · 2 notes |
| iTunes sharing I have my Windows PC running iTunes with sharing set up with a password, connected to a DLink DIR-655 router. The DIR-655 is run to a DIR-615 router, which broadcasts to my iMac G5. I can't see the shared library on the iMac however. Any… | Report | 8,083 reads 2010-01-16 · 2 notes |
| Leo4allv3final (transfer files) this weekend was my 1st attempt to add mac onto my HP laptop. I did everything right. erased the HD, did the install and everything is all good. my problem is this. When it reboots, and I select US, select the English, then it ask do I… | Note | 7,718 reads 2010-02-07 · 5 notes |
| MacBook Pro - Which one should I get So Apple just got rid of the new MacBooks and they offer a wider selection of MacBook Pro's. Well I really could use one for school (I'm in highschool) and just for a general computer that'll work and I can enjoy using. Right now I have… | Report | 7,716 reads 2009-06-09 · 19 notes |
| Mac osx leopard 10.5.4 amd i installed MAC OSX LEOPARD 10.5.4 into my AMD my harddisk is SATA type. what i need to set? anyone suggest me please.:( i have some problem. However I install completely. After restart, a "NO ENTTRY" icon appear on Apple loading logo.… | Report AMD OSx86 | 7,704 reads 2008-10-20 · 9 notes |
| Backup to image file Anyone know for a good program to backup Leopard partition to a image file? I used TrueImage on Windows, and would like to have some similar program on Mac, to backup system partition to a compressed file on another partition. | Note | 7,519 reads 2008-10-14 · 8 notes |
| Black screen on mac os x startup So yeah, i installed mac os x (ideneb lite) successufully,I had some issues with the bootloader path but solved the issue, but now.. whenever a i try to boot on it, it will be just a plain black screen..Any solutions?:) EDIT; If i load in… | Note | 7,115 reads 2010-03-03 · 2 notes |
| Little bit of Retro - Mac OS 9 My good old G4 DP500, Gigabit (was dead for a long time) was recently revived. I replaced hdd and PSU, even went a bit further and upgraded old Ati Rage128Pro with a flashed ATI9200. Old boy is alive and kickin' again For nostalgic ones… | Note | 6,970 reads 2009-07-26 · 2 notes |
| Thinking Of Getting A Magic Mouse For My Hackmac should i get the magic mouse or just get a normal mouse? | Note | 6,931 reads 2009-12-03 · 4 notes |
| xcode 3.2 gcc terminal everything i build in the terminal with xcode 3.2 under snow leo does not run under 10.5. i tried gcc 4.2 and 4.0. also different options like -arch i386 etc. -isysroot as a CFLAG doesn't seem to work at all. no matter what i do i always… | Note | 6,227 reads 2009-08-01 · 4 notes |
| Set default boot to windows in chameleon rc4 I have Chameleon RC4, iATKOS v7 and Windows 7. As I have noticed that after osx86 installation with chameleon RC4, the default boot option is MAC OS X, I get 5 seconds to open up options in order to boot windows. Is there any way to set… | Note Chameleon / Boot-132 | 6,102 reads 2010-02-27 · 1 notes |
| Mac OS X/XI cat names Which cat names will Apple choose for future Mac OS releases? Here's my speculative guess. What do you guess? Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac OS X 10.7 Lion How will they continue when no more cat names are left? | Note | 5,974 reads 2009-07-01 · 4 notes |
| DISK full error.unable to load I'm using my hackintosh without problems for more than a month and averything is working fine. Now I have a problem. When I start my system snow leopard gives a message saying that there isn't enough free space on the hard drive and it… | Note | 5,949 reads 2010-03-03 · 3 notes |
| QuickTime X QuickTime X So in the newer Snow Leopard builds from the Internet, a new feature is always bestowed upon us, in this case; QuickTime X. Like Mac OS "X", this is QuickTime "X" - Version 10. QuickTime X has many more features and… | Note | 5,944 reads 2009-06-14 · 5 notes |
| Run Mac on Linux on OS X for OS 9 Users with newer PPC macs I've been thinking and have been wanting to run Mac OS 9 on my iBook G4 (Mid 2005, 14" which I'm getting buried with, by the way ) and I can't run Mac OS 9 because Apple blocked off the capability and only left Apple Hardware Test (heavily… | Note | 5,573 reads 2009-08-19 · 1 notes |
| iMac G4 Questions... Ok so I might be set up to buy an old iMac G4(the one like the pro, with the display and the accual computer) and I was just wondering what the default specs were, also if I could run 10.5.6 on one without any problems(i.e. RAM issues,… | Note | 5,570 reads 2009-04-26 · 8 notes |
| viewing mkext on Snow i have snow on a acer 6920g (no sound yet though) how can i view the /s/l/e extensions.mkext? i know how to rebuild it with kextcache but is there an easy to list whats in there. i used kext helper on Leopard but that doesnt seem to work… | Note | 5,553 reads 2010-04-19 · 3 notes |
| Dual monitors - Possible to strech dock Can I stretch the dock through both monitors? | Note | 5,252 reads 2009-05-02 · 3 notes |
| Help Findind Leo4allv3final i looked everywhere ! and i cant find this osx Leo4allv3final! if any can help me ? ive downloaded this version : Snow_Leopard_10.6.2_SSE2_SSE3.Iso it weights 4GB but when i open it with PowerISO i see only 8 files and it tells me it… | Note | 5,080 reads 2010-04-28 · 1 notes |
| Kalyway 10.5.2 on Nvidia Nforce 750i When i put in the kalyway 10.5.2 dvd it boots up and I press f8 and type in -v it load up some text and it will all of a sudden it would reboot. I also try -s it do the same. How do I install it? My Specs: Motherboard: XFX Nforce 750i Sli… | Note NVIDIA GeForce · AHCI / SATA | 5,069 reads 2010-04-13 · 2 notes |
| Mac os x LIon does anybody know how to patch osinstall lion,so can be install on mbr scheme... | Note | 4,986 reads 2011-03-21 · 2 notes |
| MacOS X 10.5.5 Update Has anyone heard about the 10.5.5 update? There's 9F32 in the Demon, sizie is 322MB. What I found out it theat it should solve some Airport problems and the graphics should be enhanced. But there's no fix for a bug in the Mail.app search… | Note | 4,889 reads 2008-09-08 · 4 notes |
| Snow font size change How do you change the standard font size in OSX. My friends got the 27" iMac and they think the font is too small. They don't want any applications installed (tinkertool does this.) Any terminal commands? | Note | 4,853 reads 2010-01-09 · 2 notes |
| Copy the Boot Drive I wants to make a copy of my boot drive for 2 reasons. A) Backup purposes. 2) Swapping out the HD for a larger one. I has a 60Gig in there now, and I want to replace it with a 200 Gig. Both are IDE and the 200 is in an IDE-to-USB adapter… | Note | 4,782 reads 2009-08-30 · 2 notes |
| PowerBook Battery conditioning program I have an older PC tablet (Walkabout HH3) that has software included to condition the battery. When you go to the software, it gives you some information about the battery (type, charge, condition, etc.) and has options to charge, quick… | Note | 4,757 reads 2010-03-26 · 2 notes |
| Hot Temeperature on PC I have installed leo4all on my pc (pavillion DV1623tn) successfully. Once i've running sometimes the LCD monitor suddenly blank out and I feel the processor is too hot, so i need to cooling down for about 10 minutes to running it again… | Note | 4,697 reads 2008-09-23 · 5 notes |
| DVD Player problem after upgrading from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4 I have a problem, my DVD Player works perfectly on 10.6.3 but after I upgrade my system to 10.6.4 it won't work anymore If I copies old DVD Player from another 10.6.3 to my updated 10.6.4 system then it will work. So 10.6.4 must have… | Note | 4,560 reads 2010-06-20 · 1 notes |
| Kernel panic report from mouse lag On my iMac I have had problems with my mouse; The pointer blinks and flies around the screen. When I enter any mouse dialog like "do you want to save before quitting" popups, the computer emitts the repeating sound you hear when you… | Dossier | 4,509 reads 2010-08-02 · 1 notes |
| iatkos Snow Leopard Problem I am running Aitkos v7 updated to 10.5.8 dual boot with windows 7 .with everything working except wireless.I even have Quartz Extreme enabled and the right resolutions now on my Acer Aspire 5570-2609. But heres my problem.I have tried many… | Note | 4,439 reads 2010-09-03 · 1 notes |
| OSX and processor C-state management On XP/Vista, the OS interacts with the ACPI BIOS to put the processor in lower C-states during idle periods. This is distinct from the clock throttling done by apps like CoolBook. On Vista for example, depending on the model processor, on… | Dossier | 4,398 reads 2009-01-13 · 2 notes |
| Disk Utility disk repair fails I'm running OSX 10.4.11 on a 12" PowerBook 1.5 GHz with 1.25 GB of RAM and an 80 GB HD. When I run the disk Utility to Verify Disk, it ends with the message, "Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit." This happens if I run the… | Note Retail DVD / USB | 4,384 reads 2010-05-11 · 1 notes |
| Installing MAC OSX on my laptop I need mac OSX installed on my sony vaio laptop , below are the specs: Product: D2NBFA09-LBOM Component: None Component: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8800 (2.66GHz) Component: LCD 16.4" (XBRITE-FullHD™) Component: ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD… | Note ATI Radeon | 4,377 reads 2010-01-20 · 2 notes |
| Defult output volume on startup Is there a way to change this to different value? I would like to have it set to maximum. It always resets to ~60% after restart. | Note | 4,363 reads 2008-09-11 · 3 notes |
| edit etc/hosts file I need to edit the etc/hosts file on my iAtkos 5i system, but…i have no 'hosts' file in /etc (also tried /private/etc/ , still no hosts file). Any ideeas? | Note | 4,283 reads 2009-01-12 · 3 notes |
| Beware gpu medics I got an imac G5 1.9 with video issues. I found a classified ad on Ebay for a company in the states that fixes the video. I sent it off to them and the nightmare begins. After a a few days (Canada post said it was delivered) they "finally"… | Dossier | 4,188 reads 2009-11-05 · 1 notes |
| Who registered a new .Mac account to take advantage of its additional benefits Technical notes, hardware configuration, and community findings for Who registered a new .Mac account to take advantage of its additional benefits (Hardware & Dev). | Note | 4,141 reads 2008-02-21 · 1 notes |
| questions i'm fairly new to osx (been using linux - gnome - for long time). after i switched to osx, i got hooked, and i have to say i can't use anything else now. well, i can, but i just don't like it there are just a few usability issues i have… | Dossier | 4,103 reads 2008-12-26 · 1 notes |
| Virtual Memory I was talking to a friend last night, and he told me I needs a swap partition for Virtual Memory on OSX. My drives are full, and I don't want to mess with re-partitioning them. I know (thru my friend) I can create a fixed size file, or a… | Note | 4,081 reads 2009-05-09 · 7 notes |
| Software Crashes In Software, I just updated a post about HandBrake crashing, and included a Zip of the crash.log. Last night, a friend was trying to help me, and he recommended an update for Tiger, which I downloaded from Apple and installed. (Kinda… | Note | 4,076 reads 2010-02-09 · 1 notes |
| install mac 10.3.5 on a acer pc I've recently bought the operating system Mac OS 10.3.5 and wanted to install it on my PC (Acer Aspire (no laptop)). detailed description of the PC below. Was so happy that I've bought me, now put the CD into my computer run it (boot on my… | Note ATI Radeon | 4,054 reads 2011-02-09 · 2 notes |
| Two 'com.apple.boot.plist' in System Drive I've installed Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my machine and I'm dual booting it with Windows 7 using Chameleon RC4. Both OS are working flawlessly. But I found that my OS X system drive Macintosh HD has two com.apple.boot.plist files, One in… | Note Chameleon / Boot-132 · Gigabyte G31M / P35 | 3,909 reads 2010-07-24 · 2 notes |
| 10.6 on Dell Studio 540 Hopefully this is not a repetative post. I havent done an osx86 install since the days of 10.5.4. I have a Dell Studio 540 with the following specs, and I was wondering if anyone could point me to a guide to install some version of 10.6,… | Note ATI Radeon | 3,902 reads 2011-03-07 · 1 notes |
| iatkos v7 boot problem HELP i have a compaq evo n620c intel pentium m 1.6 ghz 512mb ram and i used iatkos v7 to install mac os x. when it finished instaling it said"installation succeeded" computer needs restarting so i clicked on restart and the computer restarted… | Note | 3,894 reads 2010-09-16 · 2 notes |
| Virtual Windows My HackIntosh is still a Winders booting machine. I have to go to the BIOS boot screen to get OSX. I can live with that, but, there are times I want to do something REAL quick in Windows that I don't know how to do in OSX (nube) I was told… | Note | 3,866 reads 2009-05-09 · 7 notes |
| Problem default preview photos iatkos s3 My problem is Preview returns a blank (white color) screen. The images look good as thumbnails on my desktop or if I open them with Safari, But the ( default) preview simply wont work. :(. About my SL iatkos s3 V2 10.6.4 THANK YOU | Note | 3,767 reads 2010-11-16 · 1 notes |
| imac 9400m lag lag lag I'm using a imac 20" with the 9400m. But I'm having issues with lags in expose. When I use the functions, all windows for instance, the animation is lag, BUT, when I keep doing it, over and over again, suddenly it gets smooth! I compare… | Note ATI Radeon | 3,755 reads 2010-02-18 · 2 notes |
| Chameleon bootloader problem on Imac I have a huge problem. I have an HP with Leopard 10.5.8 running on it. And I have an external hard drive on which the bootloader Chameleon was installed. So far so good. I have also an iMac with Snow Leopard freshly installed on it. Now, I… | Note Chameleon / Boot-132 | 3,566 reads 2009-09-18 · 1 notes |
| bootable snow leopard in usb but using windows 7 platform can i make bootable snow leopard in usb but now i'm using windows 7..do u have any utilities software i can use to make bootable SL in pendrive while i using windows 7 platform...plez somebody help me..i wanna use mac os x in my laptop..… | Note | 3,538 reads 2009-11-03 · 1 notes |
| OSX 10.6.4 Will not remain in Sleep With OSX 10.6.4 my 2.66 GHz iMac will not stay asleep. It will wake up even though the Wake for Network Access box is NOT checked in System Preferences. Why is this? This happens every night. It is becoming very frustrating. Thanks for any… | Note | 3,466 reads 2010-08-02 · 1 notes |
| Mac Mini Sandra Screens Here's some Sandra screen shots I took from my new Mac Mini 2.53 GHz if anyone's interested in what's under the hood from a Windows perspective. This was run under Windows 7 32-bit via Boot Camp. Overview: Mainboard: Graphics: Processor: | Note | 3,419 reads 2010-01-07 · 1 notes |
| A bug/error after snow leopard software update 10.6.4 i updated my finely stable mac from 10.6.3 to 10.6.4. After the update it asked for restart and as i did so, i'm experiencing copying errors after that. While or after the copy process i get the dialog "The Finder can’t complete the… | Note | 3,326 reads 2010-11-05 · 1 notes |
| Is it possible to run Mac OS on my system I've looked all over the forum and internet but can't find an answer. I've a spare hard drive (so there's no chance of messing up my Win7 installation). My specs are: AMD Phenom II 965 BE ASUS Crosshair Formula III Mushkin Blackline DDR3… | Note AMD OSx86 · NVIDIA GeForce | 3,287 reads 2010-08-25 · 1 notes |
| MacBook2,1 + external screen issues everytime i use my external monitor and work for about 5 minutes the following problem shows up. the laptop starts to get slow and the mouse seems to not work anymore. every mouse action is delayed for about 1 minute. can anybody help me… | Note | 3,169 reads 2010-04-07 · 2 notes |
| iPhone development frameworks Has anyone explored the various iPhone development frameworks available and what are your experiences and recomendations? Here is a list of a few I've run across: PhoneGap iUi jQTouch iWebkit Magic Framework QuickConnect LiquidGear iPhone… | Note | 3,132 reads 2010-01-10 · 1 notes |
| Move your Desktop My OS X drive is only 57.27 Gigs, my Vista drive is 250 Gigs. HOW do I set up OS X to use a folder on the NTFS drive? I've heard I could with the assign feature...My intention is to use the same folder as Vista uses. | Note | 2,949 reads 2009-05-16 · 2 notes |