
07-14-2012, 05:00 PM
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Cheetah
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Join Date: Jul 2012
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Should I upgrade to Bulldozer to get a better user experience?
Hello, everybody!
First of all, thanks to RAW x86 for his great job. Get the (still) latest osx on a (relativelly) cheap AMD machine is the pinnacle of hackintoshing.
I have lion 10.7.2 running 32-bit on an Athlon II x2 250 with bronzovka v4 kernel. It's nice and stable, just like someone else told. The main issues are that i had to swap the original finder with DP2 32-bit finder, and that even this solution has its bugs (doesn't copy/cut/paste/erase) so i had to install Path Finder.
I tried the update to 10.7.4 with both bronzovka v6 and RAW x86 latest kernels. With bronzovka's i couldn't even boot. With RAW's, as i have a non-Bulldozer CPU, i got 32-bit with that described permission bug. The result was somewhat worse than what i already got with 10.7.2, because the finder restrictions now affected Path Finder, installers and disk utility too, so i had to change back to 10.7.2.
But i'm AMD-stubborn, and i'm willing to effort an upgrade to a Bulldozer/Piledriver CPU to enjoy Lion in full 64-bit experience, besides it's a great CPU. Therefore i need to get the answers to some questions before making this upgrade:
1) The original lion finder will work out of the box, since the system will run at 64-bit? It's very annoying to resource to DP and path finders to get the work done;
2) 64-bit-only kexts and apps will work? The answer to this question may look obvious, but nothing in OsX86 is really the way it seems;
3) 32-bit apps will continue to work in 64-bit mode?
4) The core services and apps will stop being impossible to launch after x minutes from reboot? Another problematic point in lion with AMD;
5) The kernel will possibly work in a newer Piledriver CPU, since it's basically an enhanced Buldozer?
Thanks in advance for the answers!
Last edited by TheConnactic; 07-14-2012 at 05:15 PM.
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