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post #1 of 34
Thread Starter 
So the weekend is coming up, needed something to keep me busy, wanted to test a osx install on my 5672, maybe have a few obstacles to overcome and keep me busy...but turns out, it was a flawless installation. here are some pics i snapped if anybody has read the OsX86 Project guide it is pretty much followed to the t... in my case i just did a full format install, here are some pics








post #2 of 34
That is too cool. What did you have to do to get it running? I want to run it on my 5672 as well. Will it work in a dual boot way? If so which OS do you need to load first? What about drivers?

Great job!
post #3 of 34
Wondering about drivers myself. Very cool, thanks for shareing.
post #4 of 34
Thread Starter 
you basically follow the directions for the osx86 project, which are here. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11339 it is pretty step by step, just a reminder though BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP...lol because this requires some partitioning editing, and your dealing with 2 different file systems, the fat32 converted to -> osx journaled, and ntfs, drivers are still a problem throughout but actually we have the closest spec's to mac series machines then i seen on other machines, bluetooth works, my ethernet was listed but i didn't give it a try yet, there are still little quirks, like glitches.. for instance, whenever i close a window, i can see a lil square on the desktop, that i guess didn't refresh, but i move the mouse around and it's fine, haven't even really looked as far as drivers go, i more or less just installed it to mess around, wasn't planning on a whole lot of connectivity at this point, but we have a very common components in our machines, and wouldn't be surprised that if u checked enough opensource community forums, if u turned up some drivers, i was kinda wanted to see what all the hype was about, about macs, i haven't used one since playing oregon trail in the 3rd grade. although playing with this i might hafta budget a lil mac mini come tax return time, by then the new version of osx should be out. as there is already some hype building. but i dunno, maybe it is just me, it was a pretty gui, but i wasn't completely impressed, but it was enough to spark my curiosity, to wanna buy a lower end mac and learn the os more, i dunno my judgements on this are still undecided, i guess i have seen all the gui enhancements mimic's in windows for so long now, that there was no wow effect
post #5 of 34
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Originally Posted by KinzaKracker
i haven't used one since playing oregon trail in the 3rd grade.

ROFL....same here. Gosh, that was over 15 years ago now i think...

Keep us updated on how everything goes. I recently started looking at the MacBook Pro's because of their versitility, so this interests me greatly.
post #6 of 34
Thread Starter 
yea..lol i thought that was a big step up from the apple 's we had before that.. the one's with the dual floppy's...real floppy's doublesided 5.25" where to get to the next part of the game, i had to flip the floppy and hit the reset switch in the back of the computer..and then when i got to the 90's bulletin board systems... on that 9600 baud then i was flying when i got that 14.4 modem...mann, i'am reminicing now.
post #7 of 34
there seems to be alot of patched osx versions floating around can you tell me which one you used?to work with the 5672?thanks
post #8 of 34
Thread Starter 
to be honest i can't remember the name but pretty much look in the lines of OSX86 10.4.4x Install DVD....see once i obtained my copy i burned it to dvd and deleted the .iso best bet piratebay and search for OSX and see whatever is seeded the most. sorry i couldn't be more specific all i know is i got 10.4.46.....also during install it installs like all these extra languages translations and about 2.2gb worth of printer drivers...if you wanna speed it up i suggest dropping the printer drivers speeds things up..
post #9 of 34

xbench scores ?..battery life

Hello there,
Is it possible for you to post to us your xbench.com scores ?.
As also battery life ?.

Thanks
post #10 of 34
I am downloading the bit torrent right now. I bought a brand new 100GB Toshiba SATA drive to install the MAC OS on. I will bench it with a T7400 Core 2 Duo. That should be interesting.
post #11 of 34
How are the drivers for the video card and does the wireless network adapter work with OSX? Thanks.
post #12 of 34
KinzaKracker Can you please post a step by step of what you did to get OSX running? Just basic, it doesn't have to be detailed.

Did you do any of the driver fixes, etc? Also, what things worked (sound, wireless, video, etc...) and what didn't?

Thanks!
post #13 of 34
dude, thats pretty sweet! i have thought about dualbooting suse 10 on my 5003
post #14 of 34
very nice. Do you have any problems with major devices (mouse, printer, etc?). I'm "getting" my copy of osx right now and can't wait to try it out on my laptop.
post #15 of 34

Success!!!

Great guide. It's not quite complete but it does work! Dual boot works great.

I'm working on getting full functionality, but it works very well so far. Very impressive.

Thanks for the posts!
post #16 of 34
Thread Starter 
sorry haven't been playing with it much, been busy with work, yea most devices work, i mean all the essentials. mouse, i think most printers are supported as there is 2.2gb worth of printer drives to be installed but i skipped it, as i was rushing my install, and yea the guide is pretty decent, i mean i never had a experience with mac os at all and that got me through it prety well, i got it all installed but i dunno it lost the lust for me now, i wanted a challenge and it went too smooth if you have the right bootloader you can triple boot win/osx/linux .... storm what osx .torrent u finally end up going with?
post #17 of 34
Thread Starter 
and storm how did u go about getting a merom processor already? is it a engineer model? off ebay? as there not release yet i assume there must be some sort of "alternative means" of obtaining it..lol
post #18 of 34
Been really busy with work myself. I have lots of info on the OSX install. I'll post when I can later on today.

Yes it is an ES. The production chips will not really be availble until retail release (oems like DELL are getting them now). I got mine from Nathan.

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread164813.html

I used this bit torrent:

Mac OS X 10.4.6 x86 Install DVD (JaS)

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3497330
post #19 of 34
My Hackbook Acer 5672 w/ Merom T7400 XBench 1.2 Scores

Results90.29
System Info
Xbench Version1.2
System Version10.4.6 (8I1119)
Physical RAM1024 MB
ModelADP2,1
Drive TypeTOSHIBA MK1032GSX
CPU Test106.77
GCD Loop257.2913.56 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic129.543.08 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT74.222.45 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library80.7514.06 Mops/sec
Thread Test215.82
Computation196.683.98 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention239.0810.29 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test112.03
System110.63
Allocate80.43295.36 Kalloc/sec
Fill130.386339.58 MB/sec
Copy142.572944.83 MB/sec
Stream113.46
Copy108.172234.17 MB/sec
Scale110.272278.24 MB/sec
Add119.352542.52 MB/sec
Triad116.782498.31 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test87.35
Line89.065.93 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle78.0423.30 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle77.196.29 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier98.292.48 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text99.336.21 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test157.60
Spinning Squares157.60199.92 frames/sec
User Interface Test152.74
Elements152.74700.97 refresh/sec
Disk Test33.05
Sequential49.20
Uncached Write33.6420.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write49.0627.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read87.0825.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read50.7425.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random24.88
Uncached Write9.200.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write42.7313.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read63.480.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read77.2614.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]
post #20 of 34
Or you could install another version... http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
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