Hey everyone.

Thought I would start this Thread as there's no mention of the i5-430m.

Been doing a lot of thinking today (after originally looking at an ASUS K50IN) and have decided that something with a little more oomph is required.

I took a look at Dell this evening and the Inspiron 1545 looks like quite a good option. From searching the forums, looks like quite a compatible bit of kit.

However, I got clicking on better things (as often happens) and am looking at a Dell Studio 15 (1558) with the Intel Core i5-430M.

The spec is :

• Intel® Core™ i5-430M (2.26Ghz, 4Threads, turbo boost up to 2.53GHz, 3MB cache)
• 4GB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x2048]
• 500GB (5400RPM) Serial ATA Hard Drive
• DVD +/- RW Drive
• ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 Graphics Card
• 15.6 inch High Definition (1366x768) WLED
• Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit

The price today is £549 (Reduced by £269)

So, back to searching the forums. Looks like the ATI card is doable (without CI and QE - at least for now) but the question I had was about the i5-430m chipset (ie. Sound, CPU, board itself).

I realise that some i5's are supported at the moment - but these are in towers? I'm willing to go for it and chance it, if it's likely to work - even if a bit of work is required - but it'll be a wasted investment if the i5-430m will be completely useless for a Hackintosh project.

I may consider getting it and using Win7 for a bit if there is news of support in the pipeline. But that's a big if.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

ellnic.

Dear ellnic,

Depends what method you used to install snow leopard. a vanilla install will not work because i5 is not supported but check this out http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2009/...ctly-from.html

if it has realtek or soundmax (analog devices) you can easily get the kexts also the LAN card has to be compatible, so it you can find out if you can what LAN device in this laptop. the easiest way to get the airport working is to use an official or compatible card e.g. BCM4321XX (Official Airport Extreme card works on PC and mac) or Atheros 5008 again works on PC and MAC.

Tell me if you confident to take the dive.
Regards,
Ash

Hey Ash

Thanks for the reply.

I actually ended up with a Studio XPS 1645 in the end. It's a core i7-720QM running on a PM55 chipset and funnily enough... is running the Vanilla Kernel.

I am active on the tonymacx86 forums as we speak - check it out: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=472

There's about 19 pages of interesting reading there. . . Looks like we'll get it going eventually, but for a first hackint0sh this has blown my mind lol.

ellnic.

I also am looking into buying the dell studio 1558, but i would love to run snow leopar on it, so if anyone has any kexts ill need, i think ill go off the link that was provided to do the main install, also, if there are any kexts, drivers, tips trick etc i need to know, that would be much appreciated. Im totally new to hackintoshing
Thanks a lot