DIY Apple Nettop or installing Mac OS X Leopard on MSI Wind PC. Installing macOS Sierra on an old Mac OS laptop: what you need for installation

It just takes a little patience.

Two weeks ago Apple released the first beta version macOS Sierra for developers. Unfortunately, not all Mac models receive support for the new operating system.

If you are itching to try out the OS on your old laptop, then we have a solution for you.

Attention: You do everything at your own peril and risk.

What do we need

Operating system distribution (you can find it on the Internet)

USB flash drive with a capacity of at least 8 GB

macOS Sierra Patcher tool (tyts)

How to install Macos on a laptop

1 . Format the flash drive in Mac OS Extended format.
2 . Launch the macOS Sierra Patcher utility.
3 . Indicate the OS image in it.
4 . In the program window, select the USB drive in Target Volume and click the Start Operation button.

5 . Boot the Mac from the flash drive (hold Alt when turning on the laptop).

6 . Open " Disk Utility».

7 . Format the required partition and select it under “Sierra”.

8 . Have you taken the first 7 steps? Well done! You can start installation.

Take a break, you deserve it. Kudos to the cat for his efforts. :)

9 . After the installation is complete, restart the laptop and boot from the flash drive again. Now you need to select macOS Post Install.

10 . A device selection window will pop up before your eyes. Feel free to choose your laptop model. The utility will independently determine the necessary settings for proper operation of the system. Then click Patch.

11 . Then, in the drop-down menu, click Select Volume and select the partition on which the “axis” is installed.

We're almost done

12 . Once the patch is installed on the OS, select Reboot. The system will reboot and it will take some time to complete the settings.

13 . That's all, the Mac has rebooted and the system is ready to go!

With these simple manipulations we achieved our goal - macOS Sierra is installed and ready to go. Congratulations!

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Longtime Mac users have long come to terms with Apple's focus on iOS devices in recent years. This is not surprising, because in the new era of mobile computing, each representative of the “iPhone” trio iPod touch- iPad sells in larger quantities than all six lines of Mac computers combined. It even got to the point that last summer Apple ignored Mac for the first time at the annual WWDC developer conference, and absolutely new model The Mac mini (the first redesign in five years, by the way) was only celebrated with a terse press release. However, the Mac remains one of Apple's core businesses, as the company reiterated with a press event that focused on the platform.

A special Back to the Mac press event, held by Apple at its own headquarters in the sunny Californian town of Cupertino last Wednesday, did not bring any special surprises, but it fully met the main expectations: all the announcements that were most often predicted were made here - a new version application package for home use iLife ’11, a new line of ultra-thin laptops MacBook Air, as well as the first demonstration of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 operating system. Perhaps someone was surprised by the absence of a new version of the iWork office suite, but no one promised it. In addition, the end of October marks the debut of a new Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac, and perhaps Apple decided it wasn't practical to force users to choose between the two packages.

Speaking to those present, the Director of Operations Apple Tim Tim Cook tried to once again emphasize the importance of the Mac for Apple. He said that in the 2010 financial year that ended, the Mac platform brought Apple a third of its revenue - $22 billion. If the company were not engaged in any other business, then only thanks to the Mac it would be on the 110th line of the Fortune 500 ranking. The company estimates that there are 50 million Mac users in the world. Year-over-year Mac sales growth in the most recent quarter (27%) was 2.5 times faster than the industry average (11%) and has been doing so for 18 consecutive quarters. At the moment, the company has officially registered 600 thousand official developers of applications for Mac (the cost of registration for a period of one year is $99), and every month this number increases by another 30 thousand. And if the company is now unlikely to report success in the corporate market whether it works out, individual users are increasingly choosing desktop computers and Mac laptops: In the US, one in five computers sold through retail channels is made by Apple.

Steve Jobs explained another meaning to the event's name to those present. Mac computers and the Mac OS X operating system have been Apple's core business for many years, and the experience gained in their development and production has been fully utilized in creating software and hardware solutions on the iOS platform. Now the company has decided to “return the favor” by transferring the innovations developed in the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to the Mac platform.

New MacBook Air: what netbooks were missing. According to Apple

One of the loudest and most anticipated announcements was the presentation of a completely new line of ultraportable Macbook Air laptops. Now it contains not only 13-inch models, but also more compact ones - with an 11.6-inch display.

The appearance of such a device led to a lot of talk about Apple releasing a netbook. Apple executives have repeatedly emphasized that the company has no intention of releasing its own netbook. In the fall of 2008, Steve Jobs expressed pessimism about netbooks, noting that Apple offers mobile access to the Internet iPhone.

“Connected to the Internet anywhere you go via a cellular network, iPhone is a great solution for browsing the web, by email and other tasks that netbooks allow you to do, and it fits in your pocket. However, we will be watching how this young class of devices (netbooks) develops, and we already have some pretty interesting ideas about this,” Jobs said then.

“When I look at what's on offer in the netbook sector today, I see smaller keyboards, terrible software, outdated components and very small screens. Frankly speaking, we will never call this the name Mac. We are not interested in this market segment, and we are confident that consumers are not interested in it either,” Tim Cook, then acting head of Apple, said last spring.

And so, Apple released a netbook. What has changed since then? From Apple's side, in general, nothing. But the definition of a “netbook” (which, it must be admitted, has never been particularly clear) now includes not only 7-inch devices with a flash memory drive and the at that time already outdated Windows XP, as in the days of the first Eee PC, but and quite “adult” laptops - with displays up to 12 inches, Windows 7, and in some cases even with an optical drive. The most obvious features that distinguish netbooks from the kingdom of laptops, in addition to the size of the display, are the use, to put it mildly, of not the most productive components, as well as, as a rule, a smaller keyboard and a relatively low price. Thus, it turns out that Apple has released a laptop that somewhat fits the definition of a “netbook” in its current state. However, unlike most traditional netbooks, the new 11-inch MacBook Air has a full-size keyboard and a fairly powerful integrated video adapter - NVIDIA GeForce 320M. The use of this chipset, unfortunately, predetermined the type of processor - Core 2 Duo ULV (since NVIDIA still does not have a license from Intel to produce system logic sets for newer processors), so the new MacBook Air, like netbooks, can be “incriminated” » the use of not the most productive processors. Interestingly, the new 11-inch MacBook Air is even slightly wider than the 12-inch PowerBook released in 2003 and is approximately equal in footprint, but at the time of the first Eee PC models, it would hardly have occurred to anyone to call that laptop Apple “ netbook."

At one time, the MacBook Air became the first laptop in which Apple abandoned the use of a built-in drive optical disks. The new generation of MacBook Air can also boast a similar achievement: the new models do not provide installation hard drive. Instead, Apple used a packageless SSD drive of its own design. The picture shows the SSD drive of the new MacBook Air and HDD from the previous generation model (photo - iFixit):

The advantages of flash memory drives over hard drives - reliability, efficiency, performance, silence, lack of heating - have been known for a long time, but Apple managed to add compactness to this: according to the company, the drive, which looks like a RAM module, is 90% more compact hard drives. Of course, the user can only upgrade an SSD using the same modules manufactured by Apple, which, as a rule, is, to put it mildly, not the most economical option, however, each solution usually has both advantages and disadvantages, and the latter in this case seem to be , less.

The use of an SSD allowed Apple to solve another problem - to provide the ability to quickly (according to the company, “instant”) readiness for work and, as a result, due to the new mode of even deeper sleep, Standby, increase the time battery life up to 30 days. In operating mode with switched on Wi-Fi adapter The battery of the new 13-inch model allows you to use the laptop for 7 hours, and for the 11-inch this figure is at 5 hours. The non-removable battery of laptops can withstand up to 1000 recharge cycles.

The all-aluminum Unibody body and glass trackpad with Multitouch support are already familiar from other Apple laptop models. The MacBook Air is 3mm thick at its narrowest and 17mm thick at its widest, with the 11-inch model weighing just 1.06kg and the 13-inch weighing 1.32kg.

The standard amount of RAM (2 GB) can cause some disappointment - even with not very intensive use of the laptop it is not enough, however, unlike the previous model, it can now be expanded: when purchasing a laptop, the buyer can double the amount of memory for an additional $100.

The 13-inch model received a display with an increased resolution - 1440 x 900 pixels versus 1280 x 800 pixels for its predecessor and the 13-inch MacBook and MacBook Pro. The 11.6-inch model has a display resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. MacBook Air has LED backlight display, video conferencing camera, Mini DisplayPort video output, MagSafe connector for connection external source food, two USB ports, wireless interfaces Bluetooth and 802.11n. The 13-inch model also has an SD memory card slot.

To reinstall standard software - the operating system, the iLife package - MacBook Air owners will use a miniature USB drive, which is also included in the package, instead of optical disks that are rapidly becoming a thing of the past (photo - iFixit).

One of the most important innovations of the current MacBook Air is their price. If previously the cheapest representative of this family of laptops cost US buyers $1,499, then the current entry-level model (11.6 inches, Core 2 Duo 1.4 GHz processor with 3 MB L2 cache, 64 GB SSD) costs one and a half times cheaper - $999, being, together with the plastic MacBook, the most affordable Apple laptop both at the moment and in its history in general. A similar model with double the SSD capacity costs $200 more. A 13-inch MacBook Air with a Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz processor with 6 MB L2 cache and a 128 GB SSD costs $1,299, with a 256 GB SSD - $1,599. At the buyer's request, the older 11- and 13-inch for For the same $100, a more powerful processor can be installed (1.6 and 2.13 GHz, respectively). The company also offers a USB-connectable Superdrive ($79) and an Ethernet adapter ($29).

The new MacBook Air, according to Apple, is the first of a new generation of MacBook laptops. Apple is probably already thinking about transferring such innovations to other lines of laptops as the use of an SSD drive to speed up booting and waking from sleep mode (possibly together with a traditional hard drive), abandonment of the built-in optical drive, new resolutions (and proportions) displays.

At the end of the story about new MacBooks Air would like to pay tribute to an expert who regularly provides investors and the community with forecasts, most of which are later confirmed in practice. In November 2008, Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster predicted that within two years Apple would release its own netbook model based on the MacBook Air, with the display size reduced to 11 inches and the price reduced to 1000 dollars. He apparently simply forgot to mention about the SSD of his own design.

iLife ’11: everyone stays where they are

Rumors that have repeatedly appeared on the Internet that the new version of the most standard application package for Mac will contain changes in composition did not come true: iDVD is still included in the package, iWeb has not given up its place to a “more professional” analogue, but something completely new the app never debuted in iLife '11. However, big changes are apparently coming for iWeb and iDVD: these applications have not changed since iLife '09, and even on the company's website page information about them is somewhere very far from the eyes of the casual visitor . However, attention is paid to three main applications - the program for cataloging, processing and printing digital images iPhoto, the home video editor iMovie and the amateur music package GarageBand.

In the interface iPhoto '11 iOS motifs are visible quite in the spirit of Back to the Mac. The application received a completely new full-screen mode, which is now considered by the company as the main one.

Previously, the full functionality of the program was available only in window mode, while full-screen mode only provided the ability to increase the usable screen area when carrying out certain operations - by hiding the menu bar, dock, standard window elements and unused desktop space. Now the user can get everything at once, and this will be useful when working on a Mac with any display size - from the new 11-inch MacBook Air to the 27-inch iMac.

Several modes are available in full screen view: “Events”, “Persons”, “Places”, “Albums” and “Projects”. The first four, as in the previous version of the package, display groups of pictures, and the projects mode, which looks like the iBooks iOS application, is a catalog of user-created postcard and photo book layouts. Users in the US and several other countries can order and pay for hard copies of created designs directly from iPhoto. Due to the unavailability of the service in Russia, we will not dwell on it in more detail.

iPhoto ’11 introduces several new animated themes for creating slideshows. Of these, the Places theme stands out, which, in addition to the images themselves, based on the geographic information stored in them, visually displays where the shooting took place.

The new version of iPhoto has significantly expanded the possibilities for publishing pictures. The "Export" (Share) button allows you to order hard prints by mail (again, this, unfortunately, is not for us), publish them to MobileMe, Flickr, Facebook, or send them in an email message. In the latter case, the email message created directly in iPhoto includes a collage created from selected photos based on one of the available templates (the collage itself is sent as a single raster image), as well as ZIP archive with the pictures themselves in the original or optimized format - at the user’s choice.

The developers have taught iPhoto ’11 to download pictures directly from online services, however, apart from viewing, you can’t do anything else with them - neither edit them nor use them in slideshows or albums.

Facebook users in the new version of the program received several new tools for using the photo functionality of the service. iPhoto ’11 lets you create account Facebook new albums, publish photos, change the level of access to published images, and even view comments left by other users (this only applies to photos that were published from iPhoto).

In the new version of the home video editor iMovie The function of changing the volume of the audio track in individual clips has again appeared - by simply moving the level line on the corresponding waveforms.

Another major innovation in iMovie ’11 was the ability to create “trailers” - videos based on templates with a pre-planned plot and using clips selected by the user. Having selected a template with the most suitable plot and style for the planned video, the user specifies the names of the main characters, selects the fragments that are most appropriate for a specific episode (based on tips from the template), after which iMovie automatically compiles the finished “product.”

When selecting suitable scenes it will be useful new feature People Finder, which analyzes clips and places tags, looking for group images, heroes in action, large portraits, etc.

It is quite possible that many people will think that the videos created using this function are not very harmonious, and the choice of templates, themes and settings when creating them is too meager, but this tool allows even a beginner to create a funny, professional-quality video in a few minutes.

Like iPhoto, iMovie ’11 has significantly updated video publishing capabilities - in addition to YouTube and MobileMe, the user can export videos to Facebook, Vimeo and CNN iReport Web.

Overall, iMovie ’11 has become a worthy successor to the previous version in terms of expanding functionality after a complete rewrite of the program that occurred between versions ’06 and ’08 and resulted in some reduction in capabilities. The only surprise is the lack of integration with the video editor of the same name for iPhone 4 and iPod touch fourth generation.

IN GarageBand '11 There are new voices and effects for guitar parts, as well as two new functions useful for mixing multi-track soundtracks. The Groove Matching tool allows you to semi-automatically match the rhythm of individual parts if, for example, the bass guitar does not always fall in time with the drums. In the same case, when one of the participants in the final chord of the composition, for example, muted the sound earlier than the others, the Flex Time tool will help, which allows you to change the duration of the sound of individual track fragments.

The capabilities of the built-in GarageBand learning system for playing guitar and keyboards have been expanded. New 22 lessons (their total number is four dozen) are addressed to students learning to play the piano and guitar.

Built-in learning progress monitoring system How did I play? automatically analyzes the student’s game, displaying statistics and motivating him to new successes.

As before, iTunes ’11 will come bundled with all Mac computers. Users previous versions(that is, all those who bought a Mac previously) can upgrade for $49.

Mac OS X + some iOS = Lion

The most “intangible” announcement of the event was the demonstration of the new operating system Mac OS X 10.7. Continuing the “cat” theme, Apple decided to name the new OS in honor of the king of beasts - Lion. Introducing it, Steve Jobs once again noted that the new version of the “desktop” operating system will contain many innovations tested in mobile devices Apple.

Icons for applications downloaded from Mac App Store, appear in Launchpad, a new app launcher that also resembles the iPad or iPhone. Like the iOS home screen, Launchpad has a folder mechanism and multiple toggle spaces, allowing you to organize all your existing apps into groups the way you like.

Apple decided that the Mac App Store should be tested even before the release of Lion, so Snow Leopard users will be able to start using the new service in a month and a half.

Another one key feature Mac OS X Lion, borrowed from iOS, provides deeper support for full-screen application mode. The first app where Apple demonstrated what it thought a full-screen app should look like was iPhoto ’11, which we talked about a little earlier. In Lion, the user can switch an application to full-screen mode with one click, and return back to multi-window mode or switch to another full-screen application using multitouch gestures.

Mission Control is a new Mac OS X tool that lets you see everything running applications- from all Spaces screens, widgets from Dashboard and full-screen applications. This feature, which extends the capabilities of Expose, can be invoked with a single click or multitouch gesture.

Other Lion innovations cited by Apple include support for automatic document and app state saving (like iOS) and greater built-in multitouch functionality when using trackpads and the Magic Mouse.

The final version of Lion is scheduled for release next summer. It is likely, as in the cases with Leopard and Snow Leopard, that the company will hold another event a few months before the release, where it will introduce the new operating system in more detail. It is possible that this will happen at the WWDC conference, which is usually held in June.

FaceTime - Time to see people's faces on your Mac screens

Apple's desire to expand the audience of potential FaceTime video conferencing subscribers beyond the circle of iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch users is no secret. During the Back to the Mac event, the company announced the release of a beta version of FaceTime for Mac - as a separate application, and not as part of iChat (unlike the latter, FaceTime does not support multi-party video conferencing - at least not for now).

It is possible that the emergence of a FaceTime client for Mac will encourage third-party developers to release similar software for Windows, Android and other platforms. Let us remember that during the announcement of FaceTime in June of this year, Apple emphasized that this technology was created on the basis of open development, which gives the green light for its support in any third-party products. For now, however, FaceTime is still a technology limited to Apple devices.

In general, the event did not bring any special surprises: detailed and reliable information about the new MacBook Air was leaked onto the network several days before the announcement, the iLife package can hardly be called evolutionary, and so little is known about Mac OS X Lion so far that what can be done It’s too early to draw conclusions. However, Apple once again demonstrated its commitment to its historically core platform, and also showed the direction of further development of both its laptops and Mac software.

Nettop ( Nettop) is a very young form factor of a computer, it appeared even later than the now very popular netbooks and is a low-performance, but very compact computer for working with the Internet, e-mail, multimedia entertainment and working with text. A sort of “non-mobile” netbook.

Apple has model range Mac has nothing like it, although it would be a stretch to classify nettops as usually even smaller; on average, the volume of a regular nettop is only about 1 liter, or even less. Very often, nettops are “crossed” with a monitor. This tutorial will describe how to install OS X Leopard on an MSI Wind PC nettop.

We have already written above that nettops have a lot in common with netbooks: not only the size and performance, but as a rule the hardware itself is the same. This means that the installation Mac OS X on nettops it is possible and will not be more difficult than installation on netbooks, we have examples.

History shows that Intel Atom may well “hold” retail Mac OS X, which can be updated from servers Apple.

Nettop MSI Wind PC

Externally MSI Wind PC It’s far from the prettiest nettop on the market, but it’s one of the cheapest. The model used in this article costs only $140.

The heart of the nettop is not the Atom 1.6 GHz, which sits on the Intel 945GC chipset. Nothing unusual - a popular combination on the market. The platform supports up to 2GB random access memory and is equipped with a built-in Realtek 8111C gigabit network. There are also 2 SATA connectors for connecting hard drives (DVD drives).

The already outdated Intel GMA 950 is responsible for the graphics. Yes, the chip is weak and the most that can be done with it is to connect and work in Leopard on a large monitor and no games, nothing more can be expected. On the other hand, such chips were used in previous generations MacBook, so there should be no problems in the work.

Built-in 8-channel Realtek ALC858 audio. Wireless WiFi Unfortunately, no.

Installing Leopard

A small surprise awaited the guys here. The BIOS version was below 1.50 and it had to be updated. If the version BIOS your nettop is 1.50 or higher, then an update is not required. A special assembly of MSI Wind osx86 was used.

Next is the standard procedure for disk partitioning. The disk utility starts and a partition with HFS+ format is created. No choice of kexts - the assembly is under Wind PC. The installation itself lasted about 30 minutes, which is by the standards of Hackintosh a lot of.

Before installing on ASUS Eee PC 1000(H) - MAC OS X Leopard, you need to flash its BIOS with a modified version of the firmware, currently a modified version 1103 is available (at the time of writing this, there is also nothing on the ASUS support website newer version 1103 was not observed).

You can, of course, try to install MAC OS X without fiddling with the BIOS, but it will most likely not lead to anything successful, I tried 4 different Hackintosh images and in all cases I did not get further than the “console”. Naturally, the BIOS firmware changed everything.

You can download MOD.BIOS from here:
http://osrom.net/biosmod/ - EeePC1000H1103

After flashing the firmware using this method, you will not receive any external changes in the BIOS - new menus and secret control points, you don’t even have to look for them.

By the way, if for some reason unknown to anyone you need to “roll back” the BIOS, then don’t even try to do this with latest versions AFUDOS, ASUS decided to “sew” into its utilities a check for already installed version BIOS, “thanks to” which, when you try to roll back the BIOS, the utility happily informs you that you already have a fresh install and you don’t need it at all.
One of the first versions of AFUDOS will come to the rescue and will cope with the task without further ado. (Download - AFUDOS001)

Installation

In the case of installing MAC OS X, exactly the same as with installing Vista, I used the most common SATA-DVD drive and a USB2.0 to SATA+IDE 2.5" + 3.5" Adapter (Combo).

After the BIOS was successfully flashed and modified, I connected the drive to the laptop, and after turning it on, I chose to boot from DVD.

I tried the following images:
Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel Amd- (Size: 3.66 GB)
iATKOS v4i (10.5.4 Leopard DVD) (Intel only)- (Size: 2.64 GB)
Leo4Allv3 Final Universal (Mac OS X 10.5.2 Intel & AMD SSE2/SSE3)- (Size: 4.38 GB)
Leo4All v.4.0 Beta AMD or INTEL CPU SSE2/SSE3- (Size: 4.2 GB)
I think there is no need to explain where to look and where to download this “good”.

Results:
Kalyway 10.5.2 –

- installed easily and without problems
- performed best at the installation stage

iATKOS v4i –
- installation started immediately and without additional keys
- did not provide a choice of installation language
- did not provide a choice of Kernel
- installed 100%
- after installation, when turned on, it went into cyclic reboots (the problem is known, its solution lies in the Kernel version and special BIOS settings, neither the first nor the second was available to me)
- iATKOS “went to the trash”.

Leo4Allv3 Final Universal –
- installation started immediately and without additional keys

- installed 100%
- almost (!) without any problems allowed me to reach the final stage of installing and launching MAC OS X.

Leo4All v.4.0 Beta –
- installation started immediately and without additional keys
- there were no problems with the installation, just like with Kalyway, almost(!)
- installed 100%
- after installation I received an error – “b0 error”
- after solving the “b0 error” problem, the “hd() Ethernet PXE Client” problem appeared
- after solving the “hd() Ethernet PXE Client” problem, the “hd() Apple HFS” problem appeared
- after solving the problem “hd() Apple HFS”, the problem “Error parsing plist file Loading Darwin/x86” appeared
- the problem was not solved, I blamed it on a poorly baked DVD
- re-recorded DVD
- the problem was not solved, blamed it on the broken image
- Leo4All v.4.0 Beta “was carefully postponed until better times”
- At the time of writing these lines, you can already download Leo4All v.5 Server 10.5.4 Intel/AMD Released

Almost(!) times
Regarding the first almost (!) in the case of Kalyway, after successful installation, at the first start it is suggested - (1) select your region, (2) keyboard layout and, if necessary, (3) “back up” from the old Mac, after the selection procedure or refusing to backup instead of continuing, I successfully returned to selecting the region and in such a cycle from (3) to (1) and again to (3) I could sit for a long time. This problem is well-known and easily solved; I will give its solution below.
By the way, the same problem happened with Leo4All.

Almost(!) two
Regarding almost(!) iATKOS, Leo4All v.3, Leo4All v.4 - not one of them could successfully partition and format the screw, giving the same error - “no disk access”. Kalyway did not have such a problem; it easily divided, combined and formatted.

Welcome!
So the installation, its process itself with any of the images is practically identical, which is not strange, with the exception of small “exclusive details” of this or that image.

Once you choose to boot from DVD, you may see something like this (depending on the image you select):

<Еnter>and a couple of minutes of waiting (in the case of all images except Kalyway, this time is slightly more than “a couple of minutes of waiting”).

Those who are installing MAC OS X on an Eee PC for the first time should know that when you see the following window, consider yourself almost lucky. I waited for this window for several days in the hope of installing MAC OS X without modifying the BIOS.
Having chosen the language you like, you can continue the installation (in the case of iATKOS v4i there will be no such choice).

Welcome and “exclusive details” of this or that image.

After a successful greeting, you need to prepare your hard drive for a meeting with MAC OS X Leopard. To do this, you need to go to “Disk Utilities”, they are waiting for users in “Utilities”.

Having found your bearings, you need to select the hard drive on which MAC OS X will be installed. In the “Partition map settings”, you must select “GUID partition scheme”. Then successfully format the area of ​​the disk where MAC OS X will be installed, or the entire disk, into the “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” format.

Having finished “wiping” the hard drive, close “Disk Utility” and return to the welcome window. Cry! by clicking the “Continue” button. Select the disk on which MAC OS X will be installed and Click again! by clicking the “Continue” button.

Having gone to “Installation Information”, there is no need to rush to “Install”. First you need to look at “Settings”.

The main and most important thing is the choice of the boot kernel, in this Eee's case it is the Vanilla Kernel (the newer, the better). Further to your taste? But without fanaticism. You don’t have to worry too much about the choice of drivers; practically none of them will work to Eee PC, with the exception of Intel's ICHx chipset and GMA950 video. Let’s wrap it up, “Done” and “Install”.

Before installing, “smart” MAC OS X will check if everything is okay with installation disk, you can, of course, skip this procedure, but it’s better to wait until it’s finished; after checking, it will automatically proceed to installation. “I’m installing!”

If the stars “favor” you or you simply configured everything correctly before installation, then after 30 minutes you can (let’s face it, not without joy) see a green circle with a check mark and the inscription “Installation completed successfully.” Reboot.

After the reboot, MAC OS X welcomes the new user. "Welcome!"
Actually, here it is, that same “almost(!) time” mentioned above.
Of course, there are people whom those same “benevolent stars” favor more than me,
well, or they are simply smarter than me, and accordingly, it is likely that not everyone faces a similar problem.
But somehow it didn’t work out for me.
And every time after “Do You Already Own a Mac?” I returned to "Welcome" in between encountering "Select Your Keyboard".

The problem is solved as follows. The laptop reboots, and the boot process is continuous and jerky, but at the same time gently, squeezing . Before such a window appeared.

It will be almost identical to what it was during installation. After boot: you can enter the key with which you can boot, this key will be “-s”. Enter “-s” and press<Еnter>.

Lines are running, a lot of lines, we’ve finished running, you can enter something again

/sbin/fsck –fy
/sbin/mount –uw/
Touch /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
passwd root

Choose your password, enter it and remember it

Quit
reboot

Reboot, after this procedure you will see a welcome window where you need to enter your username and password
login: root
the password is the one created above
switch layout +

From this link you can download an archive with “working” drivers (kexts) for ACPI, Intel GMA950 and Realtek R1000:
http://www.maceee.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/maceeedotcompatches.zip
To install kexts, use “Kext Helper”, it is usually already installed in MAC OS X itself, moreover, in this particular case it is added to the above archive.

To install Wi-Fi you need to download and install this:
http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/Ralink_CardBusPCI_D2860-1.0.1.0_D61-1.0.4.0_D2560-1.0.9.0%20UI-1.5.1.0_2008_03_13.dmg

Results:
Everything except the sound worked practically flawlessly; in the case of installing Intel GMA950, when working at a resolution of 1024x600px, “artifacts” appear from time to time, usually in the upper parts of the windows; with default drivers with a resolution of 800x600px there is no such problem.
I couldn’t find sound drivers (Realtek ALC269), as in fact, many others who are looking for them have already accumulated a lot on the Internet; in some threads of English-language forums (there are a lot of smart ones here: forum.insanelymac.com) people seem to be close to solving this problem , it's all a matter of time.

In general, comparing the assemblies, although Kalyway behaved more friendly and responsive during installation, I personally found Leo4All to be more “stable and efficient” or something like that.
If it weren’t for the problem with the drivers, perhaps I would have stayed on this OS, or at least installed it as an additional one, but for now it’s still Vista.

Placing all the emphasis on finding and solving the sound problem, I completely forgot about the built-in video camera, and only remembered about it when I had Vista wallpaper on my desktop. Therefore, I simply cannot say whether the camera works or not, since I don’t know. But no problem with USB devices I didn't have any problems.

Bonus:
If anyone suddenly needs it, I screenshot the “X-disk” and “Automator” icons.

At launch Mac OS X on a regular netbook with a processor Atom there is nothing surprising on board or some other non-Apple computer. "Hackintosh", that is, a hacked version of Mac OS X, adapted to run on non-original computers, was, is and will be. However, this process is not always smooth, and it is not possible on all computers. It is advisable to have hardware that is as close as possible to Apple computers, or take care to read the relevant instructions in advance in order to find out which third-party equipment enthusiasts have already created drivers for. And they, enthusiasts, can be quite selective, although they try to support popular components. But this is not our case. Everything is much more interesting here, because Mac OS X launched on Google's first netbook.

For those who are not aware or simply not interested in the issue, I note that Google not only plans, but also to break into the ultraportable computer sector. Moreover, this plan has been implemented for quite some time, and has managed to produce the first results. Google has released its netbook, although so far only in limited quantities. The device is available to company employees and developers who decide to take part in a public, albeit strictly limited, test program.

First of all, the netbook is interesting because it runs a cloud operating system. “Cloud” means that it is focused on a constant connection to the Internet. On the one hand, it can cause difficulties, on the other hand, all the user’s data is located in the “cloud”, that is, on the Internet, and he has access to it from any device based on Chrome OS. Is your netbook broken or stolen? No problem. You took the second one, entered your login and password, and in the blink of an eye you get a personal workspace with all the information and installed programs. Sometimes this can be indispensable. Reminds me of something Apple Time Machine in terms of “moving” from one device to another, but at the same time even more convenient.

Secondly, he is attracted by his appearance and characteristics. The device has a large touchpad with a built-in button, very reminiscent of that in Apple laptops, a similar comfortable keyboard with isolated keys and a 12-inch LCD display. Although, it is not based on the most powerful Intel Atom processor. But in addition to the Wi-Fi 802.11n module, there is also a 3G modem. An SSD acts as a storage device, as in the latest ones.

As for running Mac OS X on it, the person with the nickname dramaticactions did this, but he had to flash a modified BIOS, and he promised to post instructions and all the necessary files in the near future. For now, you can be content with the ability to install Linux Ubuntu (Windows is also on the way).

According to drasticactions, Mac OS X doesn't work very well yet, but overall it's passable. There is sound, the keyboard and Wi-Fi module function, the touchpad is more or less functional (it has Multi-Touch support), although the system perceives a virtual click as pressing a button, but responds correctly to a physical press. He plans to finalize the build of Mac OS X and post instructions for other enthusiasts.

It is quite possible that in the near future interested parties will develop a hackintosh for a netbook Google Chrome Cr-48, and this will turn out to be a very interesting alternative for frugal users who want to inexpensively migrate from Windows to Mac and at the same time get the closest experience possible to Apple computers using an alternative device. [Engadget]

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