Make sure that you install Virtual Box additions. It should fix the resolution problem.
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Make sure that you install Virtual Box additions. It should fix the resolution problem.
unskinnybob
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Need some Hackintosh help. I'm running Mountain Lion on my HP 8710P. I can't get bluetooth working. InsanelyMac recon that Bluetooth on this model should work stock.
MadMailMan
Expert Member
What install method did you use? I have an old 8510P sitting gathering dust that I could make usefull with OSX again.
Someone at tonymac got almost everything working on an 8510P using Snow Leopard. He used the standard tonymac method:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/snow-leop...compaq-8510p-working-mostly-snow-leopard.html
http://www.tonymacx86.com/snow-leop...compaq-8510p-working-mostly-snow-leopard.html
Targus Bluetooth USB Adapter (ACB10US)
Does anyone know where I can buy this exact model? Amazon stock it but don't ship to SA.
I know you already purchased one but other people could try,
http://www.targus.com/global/reseller.asp?countryid=69
http://www.csdtargus.co.za/
I did buy that model but it doesn't work properly. It was supposed to support wake from sleep out of the box but it doesn't. It also made the system very unstable. I went back to the previous version I had.
No! Distro's are for the lazy and incompetent. So is the TonyMac tick-click and install crapware. Hackintoshing these days with nothing but the original OS from Apple, Chameleon bootloader and fakesmc is all you need on the newer UEFI based motherboards. Why use a distro? Hackintoshes are so easy these days, you can have one up and running in under half an hour.
Why even bother, I don't get the fascination with OS X. I've tried it and I don't like it. I would not mind a macbook with retina display but trust me OS X will be wiped in a blink of an eye if I ever got one.
What else don't you like ?
brussel sprouts
The universal crap veg.
When you are little, you say you don't like veg, and your parents always say that you will when you get older. They were right, except for Brussels sprouts, still crap
As I got older I started eating more things. There's very little I won't eat these days but you can give the brussel sprouts to the fish.
It's a solid, reliable OS and it's been that way for the last ten+ years.
Rashaad_Sallie
Senior Member
People don't like OSX because if the simplicity, they expect some magical thing to happen, but are disappointed by how easy it is, and if course hate the fact that they have to think different.
Rocket-Boy
Honorary Master
Or the fact that it just isnt as good as windows - and Im not much of a fan of windows either but it beats osx hands down.
Rashaad_Sallie
Senior Member
Matter of choice. I used windows from 3.1 to XP, along side OSX 10.1 and as a preference --- OSX. I've had way less problems using OSX than Windows. At the end of the day we all have preferences.
+1000 on that. I was a Windows only person that hated Apple's OS from being forced to work on it since OS9. It was buggy as hell and was the most boring OS out there with very few usefull or exciting apps.
When OS X came out, things changed a lot! By the time Tiger was released, (Intel-based Mac's 1st OS) I was quite happy with an Apple OS for the first time. There were a lot of opensource apps and OS X versions of popular apps that just were not available for the OS9 / OSX PowerPC. I hackintoshed my home PC on a seperate drive as a side project - just something to keep the brain ticking over... and never looked back. Ok then! I tried Vista and was shocked, Win 7 improved on that, but nothing from XP to 7 came close to the fluid usage and simplistic GUI that is OS X - FOR ME! That and Windows is still hogs system resources and just feels 'lazy'. The deal-breaker is large file handling. In Photoshop, WIndows sweats under load where OS X just performs like it's all part of the plan. I checked out 8 and ... ermm! We all know how that went down. Same OS, just with a bigger , flashier wound dressing to try make it all look like nothing is wrong under the hood.
In my opinion... Windows works, but is seriously flawed by it's archaic use of registry which just begs the attention of viruses and errors. OS X does the trick for me. As someone pointed out in another thread... I use OS X because it's a better version of Linux. That said, I have a MacPro with Windows 7 installed on it's own hard drive... for the odd bit of gaming. Other than that, I don't need it or miss it at all.
We all have opinions and different experiences which we all translate in different ways.
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Rashaad_Sallie
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@subxero : same thing practically happened to me, was on OS 9.2 and X came out with bugs and i wasnt impressed, i actually made XP themes at that time called MIMIC II by Shardie, eventually as OSX became better i switched totally, its basically 11 yrs later and still on OSX, we dont have any Windows PCs in our home, except 3 Macs, 2 iPads and 2 iPhones - the only windows we use is for the sunlight to come through. Most people who hate OSX havent actually used it for a prolonged period, i say MOST people. Sometimes the problems of something becomes exciting or else you would get bored not having to have to reinstall OSX all the time - the "pretense" of getting a new clean machine. OSX users are happy while its only Windows users who always try and bring down OSX.
I revived my previous Hackintosh attempt, but for some reason network card's where not picked up, so fired up MultiBeast and chose one of the network drivers listed there, Now hackintosh wont boot up anymore?
Thinking a kext it installed was not compatible?
tried booting with -x but doesnt enter safe mode?
Thinking a kext it installed was not compatible?
tried booting with -x but doesnt enter safe mode?
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