Howdy all, I am illegally running Mac OSX (10.4.6 Jas downloaded from the org bay of pirates) on my HP NX6125 PZ895UA#ABA AMD Turion based laptop as well am illegally running 10.4.8 on my Asus R2H (1st rev / celeron M). Yes its illegal. I work in the industry dealing with Apple and Windows based gear and have contacted apple directly to inquire about the legality of such blasphemy and yes in fact it is illegal to install on non-apple hardware as well it is illegal to procure their operating system from "less than legal" sources on the net. They will not support it in any way shape or form even if you buy an upgraded license from a legal vendor. You want a good laugh look up "applecare+compaq" and listen to the recorded phone conversation. My HP AMD notebook runs Mac OSX like a champ(in some cases/apps, faster than the actual macbooks) but not without MANY headaches... upon installation, wifi, (full speed)ATA support, (full)video support and audio DID NOT work... of course a little(or a lot depending on your learning curve and willingness to delve into the unknown) driver mod's will remedy the situation. Took me 4 days to get everything working and it does ALL WORK at this point. Even cracked parallels 3 and cracked XP run well on this thing. When the HP rep showed up at my store he was first amazed and then quick to point out I "may have" voided my 3 year warranty from HP by doing so... however it turns out that since I had bought a replacement 2.5" western digital hdd and installed MAC OSX on it (being a licensed HP business repair tech and all) that I did not void my HP warranty. He actually couldnt wait to get back to home base to tell his cronies. The Asus R2H "can" run the Mac OS but there are some issues... primarily being the lack of SSE3 so the things super slow compared to my HP hackintosh... the screen resolution which is really oddball on a 7" screen. The wireless was a bitch to get working and I dont think there is any hope for the onboard GPS but hey... fun experiment. I think Ill put XP Tablet back on the thing or maybe dual boot it just for "geek prestigue" but I gotta say that even though it IS do-able it isnt all that functional performance wise(maybe rev 2 of the R2H with the Pentium mobile??? Anyone???)... although it definately isnt functional as a Vista UMPC... holy sluggish batman! I saw the video and had to try it... despite the illegal nature. Anyways if you all want a hackintosh or crackbook head on over to insanelymac or osx86project and start reading... be prepared to sacrifice some time. Fight the power! midireebs
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Howdy all,
I am illegally running Mac OSX (10.4.6 Jas downloaded from the org bay of pirates) on my HP NX6125 PZ895UA#ABA AMD Turion based laptop as well am illegally running 10.4.8 on my Asus R2H (1st rev / celeron M). Yes its illegal. I work in the industry dealing with Apple and Windows based gear and have contacted apple directly to inquire about the legality of such blasphemy and yes in fact it is illegal to install on non-apple hardware as well it is illegal to procure their operating system from "less than legal" sources on the net. They will not support it in any way shape or form even if you buy an upgraded license from a legal vendor. You want a good laugh look up "applecare+compaq" and listen to the recorded phone conversation.
My HP AMD notebook runs Mac OSX like a champ(in some cases/apps, faster than the actual macbooks) but not without MANY headaches... upon installation, wifi, (full speed)ATA support, (full)video support and audio DID NOT work... of course a little(or a lot depending on your learning curve and willingness to delve into the unknown) driver mod's will remedy the situation. Took me 4 days to get everything working and it does ALL WORK at this point. Even cracked parallels 3 and cracked XP run well on this thing. When the HP rep showed up at my store he was first amazed and then quick to point out I "may have" voided my 3 year warranty from HP by doing so... however it turns out that since I had bought a replacement 2.5" western digital hdd and installed MAC OSX on it (being a licensed HP business repair tech and all) that I did not void my HP warranty. He actually couldnt wait to get back to home base to tell his cronies.
The Asus R2H "can" run the Mac OS but there are some issues... primarily being the lack of SSE3 so the things super slow compared to my HP hackintosh... the screen resolution which is really oddball on a 7" screen. The wireless was a bitch to get working and I dont think there is any hope for the onboard GPS but hey... fun experiment. I think Ill put XP Tablet back on the thing or maybe dual boot it just for "geek prestigue" but I gotta say that even though it IS do-able it isnt all that functional performance wise(maybe rev 2 of the R2H with the Pentium mobile??? Anyone???)... although it definately isnt functional as a Vista UMPC... holy sluggish batman!
I saw the video and had to try it... despite the illegal nature. Anyways if you all want a hackintosh or crackbook head on over to insanelymac or osx86project and start reading... be prepared to sacrifice some time.
Fight the power!
midireebs