Hackintosh

10.5.2

10.4.8

This is essentially the same machine as MX8711, one comes with Vista Home, the other with Vista Premium and has a bigger HD. If you are looking for a new OS X compatible notebook you can't go wrong with this, its is probably one of the most compatible systems

Before beginning go in the BIOS and change the "Plug & Play OS" to "Other" from "Advanced Options" if you don't the keyboard and the touchpad will not work. You need a USB keyboard and mouse during installation, built-in keyboard and touchpad dont respond in the intstaller. After installation they work flawlessly with any additional effort.

Installed Jas 10.4.8 AMD/Intel SSE2/SSE3 DVD Using Custom Install Option and selecting the following Packages:

 10.4.8 Intel Package
 Intel GMA950 Drivers Package
 PowerManagement Bundle
 Also used the Sigma package but it didn't seem to have an effect.

Post Install Setup

 1. Sound: 
 - Get the AppleHDAPatcher_v1.15.zip from
   http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=32859&hl=applehda
 - Get the Sigmatel9250.txt from 
   http://psykopat.free.fr/apple/AppleHDA/sigmatel/

 2. Wireless Card - the wireless card (RTL8187) appears as a USB card:
 - Download the latest OSX drivers from Realtek site this thread has details
   http://forum.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t29797.html
 - After installation edit the 
   /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist file, change
   <key>BSD Name</key>
   <string>en0</string>
   TO
   <key>BSD Name</key>
   <string>en1</string>
 - fix permissions in diskutils

 3. Ethernet - This was the most challenging, this computer has Intel 100 Pro VE 
    but the ktext included in this system has a bad driver, there are some threads on it.  
    You need to get an older ktext for the internal Ethernet card to work
 - Get the older ktext file from this thread 
   http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=14840&view=findpost&p=97291
 - Delete the AppleIntel8255x.kext from  
   /System/Library/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/
 - Follow the instructions from the zip file, please note that the zip is a little funny 
   although it expands to a .ktext, its not, the real .ktext is inside, there is readme there.
 - My device id 0x10928086 was already in the file so I didn't have to edit the file

Working:

 - Native screen resolution 1440x900 - out of the box
 - KeyBoard - out of the box (depends on BIOS setting see above)
 - TouchPad - out of the box (depends on BIOS setting see above)
 - Wireless Card
 - Ethernet Card
 - Sound Output
 - USB - out of the box, I made no changes
 - DVD burner works, I have burnt successfully

Not Working:

 - PC Card
 - Memory card slots
 - Microphone show up as 'unrecognized' haven't been able to use it.

Also working:

 - QE/CI out of the box
 - Parallels work flawlessly and I have another XP system running under Parallels

Additional notes: Getting Vista and OS X to dual boot took a couple of times re-writing the MBR and when I let Vista repair itself and set the Active partition to OS X, my boot became sane.

Upgrade Notes:

    10.4.9 is working great without any new issues.