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Acer Aspire 5733 - Need advice
Hello folks,
A friend referred me to this website because he managed to install Lion on his HP laptop and I was interested in getting Mac OSx Lion on my Acer Aspire 5733. So far after reading the all the guides, I have come across one thing, hardware compatibility and the need to have a Mac or hackintosh already available. I do not have a mac and I want to know whether it is possible to install Lion fresh on my laptop. The following are my Specs: Intel CORE i3-370M CPU Intel HD graphics 4GB DDR3 RAM 320GB HDD DVD Super Multi DL drive Acer Nplify 802.11b/g/n Wireless Since it is a laptop I want to know whether the wireless will work if I have a successful install. Also I am not looking for a pirate copy of the mac OS x, as I will soon buy it retail after I am sure that I can install it. I would be grateful if someone from this forum could write up a detailed guide for me or point me in the right direction. Please note that I have read the osx86 wiki and also the HP guide on this forum and so far I am not sure whether my laptop is compatible. Thanks in advance. |
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You have two options, the way I see it: a distro (preferably iATKOS L2 or better) or a retail CD and Boot-132 or the like (less likely for things like wireless to work OTB, which means more time and energy.) I'd personally try iATKOS first, make sure to use "-v cpus=1 platform=ACPI" and the like to get the CD to boot. Look for a torrent, it usually has a lot of seeders (not sure if I'm allowed to link to it.) Do some research to see if your hardware is compatible (namely the Core i3; also I know for a fact that your Wi-Fi doesn't have a driver OTB, so you'll need to find one. They're called "kexts", by the way, for "kernel extension.)
Last of all, do some research on how OS X works, and about DSDT (which I don't know enough about to help you too much, but you apparently need to patch it for whatever reason.) |
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Second, they cause more problems than fix, I have had multiple machines which KP'd when they were running distros, because they have some strange (and messy) kexts. 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. My Hardware CPU: Intel Celeron G530 Memory: 4.00 GB DDR3 1333Mhz Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti OS: Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 - Vanilla kernel Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3 |