My Hackintosh Laptop (OSx86)

Sometimes you can call this thing as "HackBook", "HackBook Pro", or "HackBook Air", depending to the equivalence in specifications with Apple's MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air respectively.




Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, announced in WWDC2005 keynote address that it will switch the processors in its Macintosh computer lineup from PowerPC to Intel Processor. Steve Jobs decided to do this because of the "Performance-Per-Watt" reason that the future roadmap of Intel processors gives out higher performance at the equivalent power consumption than PowerPC. I think that he spoke the right thing because in my computer that I am using, it has Intel Core 2 Duo, which gives out great performance, while it takes less energy and lesser heat than my old Pentium 4. All Macintosh computers except the workstation Mac Pro and quad-core version of 27 inch iMac use Intel Core 2 Duo, which means that Apple uses the hardware in its Macs like the PC hardware, but only the difference is the TPM chip and EFI bootup system.
Once Apple changes to Intel platform, this means that Mac OS X runs on X86 architecture like PC that runs Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD. This means that Mac OS X can theoretically runs on PC without modifications, except additional bootloaders and kernel hacks if that PC uses Intel Core 2 Duo, which is the same as 5 of 6 Mac lineups.
Mac OS X is designed to run on the hardware that the same company (Apple) makes which are at a price premium compared to third-party hardware at the same specs. However, in OS X version 10.5.x license agreement, it said that, "You agree not to install, use
or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so." This means that it's illegal to install OS X on PCs, but in Thailand, my country, doesn't strict about copyrights and licenses like Europe (requires agreement BEFORE purchasing), US, and other major developed regions. So, I would like to try to run OS X on my Acer Aspire 5920G laptop, and compare with Windows in terms of general performance.



Hardware inside my laptop

My laptop that is hackintoshed has these specs:
2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (T7300)
2 GB RAM
160GB Seagate ST9160820AS
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT
15.4 inch LCD screen, 1280x800
DVD Burner
VGA Webcam
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
Intel WM3945BG wireless connection
Broadcom Gigabit LAN
Modem
4 USB Ports
HDMI Port
S-VIDEO out
VGA out

For this specs, I would like to call it HackBook Pro because it is comparable to MacBook Pro from Apple.

I used the OS X installation disc downloaded from BitTorrent, and what I used is from Leo XxX team, a hacked version of OS X 10.5.6. When I installed, it lacks several drivers, so I used iPC installation disc as a driver disc, and downloaded several drivers from InsanelyMac, OSx86 website.

After the installation, the system works very well like a clone of MacBook Pro, but some hardware doesn't function: Ethernet, Wi-Fi, card reader, and webcam, but these I don't use them a lot. However, I am finding in InsanelyMac in order to find fixing problems method, and I hoped that this will work fully as a real Mac soon.

I installed MS Office:Mac 2008, iWork 09, iLife 09, Final Cut Express 4, Aperture, Photoshop CS4, Acrobat 9.0, and some other applications, and they work well.

I think that why Apple have to tie its OS X to its hardware?

Startup versus MacBook Pro 13 inch video