Asus K50IN

[flip360]

GUIDE for the ASUS K Series / OS X 10.6.x / 10.7.x

The ASUS K50/70 notebook is designed to provide a no-frills computing experience to users while on the move. The K Series of notebooks sport the nVidia MCP79 / MCP75 chipsets containing C2D or CD CPU`s along with nVidia GPU`s which makes them a perfect combo for a macbookpro replacement :P After some testing and tweaking, we (the users of this thread) would like to report that the K series of notebooks are quite compatible running vanilla OS X.

WARNING: We DO NOT take ANY responsibility in case of hardware failure or error.

Section A: Install / Post Install method for 10.6.x
Section B: Install method for 10.7.x* *OPTIONAL

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Section A1: OS X 10.6.x Install method

Create a OS X USB Installer:

[ PRE-INSTALL AUTOMATOR v1.1 ] http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=185823 USB Install Method for OS X 10.6.x [from OS X]
[ Installing Snow Leopard via USB ] http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=26578 USB Install Method for OS X 10.6.x [from Windows]

or use Bughalters K50IN BootCD:

[ ASUS K50IN Boot CD ] http://www.applelife.ru/topic/21601-...in/page__st__0 Installing Mac OS X 10.6 Retail

[ HOWTO Dual Boot ] Install Mac OS X (create 2 partitions, one OS Journaled and the other one FAT, the partition for Windows (later to be reformated to NTFS using Windows installer), remember not to add/remove any partitions using Windows installer - otherwise your partition table may get damaged! When finished install Chameleon using boot0hfs method and that's it, fully working dual boot setup.

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Section A2: Post Install Method (HUGE thanks to man_of_the_oak, check out the DETAILED 5 part tutorial below)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

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Section B: Install method for 10.8.x *NEW

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You can use any of the both methods described in the links:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=256729
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...owtopic=259068

Archive with modified DSDT and AppleSmartBatteryManager.kext for 10.8.x

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2zkmxu...K50IN_10.8.zip

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Thanks to all involved in bringing OS X to the community, happy hackintoshing!