This is the guide for those who have a system that rejected Hackintosh after the installation and have unfavorable hardware (like an AMD processor) or for those who have slipped away from Mac OS X for other reasons and want to install another Operating System in its place or simply recoup the space. If you haven’t installed Hackinosh but are anxious about it, I recommend you read this too.
Some of you may find yourself with a Hackintosh that won’t access the internet after installing for the first time or after a stubborn update. Sometimes, you install a kext and it doesn’t seem to change anything. Well, maybe this trick will help you.
If you had to use a second partition to get updated to 10.6.7 or 10.6.8 (10.6.8 has graphics issues so I don’t recommend it on the Aspire One), this will be good news. You don’t need it to be there for the main partition to work. So long as the partition that contains the boot loader is active and is your main Mac OS X system, the secondary partition is redundant and only served as a bypass for faulty update attempts. You can and may delete it, I did so with mine and recuperated the space for other things.
If you didn’t need to use the second partition, then this last update to the Snow Leopard on Acer Aspire One doesn’t apply to you, for other computers you can see our main hackintosh tutorial page.
Performance is the make or break factor before anyone decides to change their system. While some of the videos have portrait Mac as a slow operating system, or a struggling one, day to day performance off camera is just as good – if not better – than Windows 7.
If you, like me, set up a dual boot when you installed Mac OS X, the first things that you will notice is that Windows won’t recognize anything and Mac OS X will detect and read NTFS but will not let you add files or use the Finder UI to do so. Therefore, if you have to go through folders, it will become a cluttered and sometimes painful experience. In this tutorial, I will give you the remedy.
For those of you who are looking for a way to get Lion on an Acer Aspire One, you may have noted a lack in resources. Upon running the Lion installer in Mac OS X on my Acer Aspire One D250, I was greeted with a windows that states that my machine – which has an Atom Processor – won’t be able to run Lion.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to update the iAtkos installation we made earlier in the series to 10.6.4. With this method, you won’t lose any of your hardware functionality on your Acer Aspire One.
Some will use the classic copy/paste, others, who are coming from Windows, like me, are used to holding ctrl while we drag and drop files to copy them. I found out that I will have a slight learning curve in Snow Leopard. Here is the heads up.
My netbook is great and all but I do most of my work on my computer. It runs Windows 7. One of the things that I would have missed from Windows on my netbook was the simplicity to transfer files without the need of a USB. It turns out that Mac made it easy to connect to Windows and Windows 7 played along very easily. Before you can do this, you need to change a setting in the System Preferences. Let’s get started.
Chances are, your laptop doesn’t have an apple button, or a command button, or any of the other Mac-specific buttons. However, after a bit of fiddling, I may very well have found the alternatives.
If you compare Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7 in terms of codecs that come out of the box, Windows 7 easily beets Mac. After a fresh installation of Windows 7, you can play with 26 different video types. From the Windows standard to HD to Mac standards, Windows can run them all out of the box. Mac, however, can only run its default file types.
All Windows systems come with the firewall automatically turned on. For some strange reason, Mac came with it turned off. Let’s change that.
Want to prevent unwanted users from being able to get into your account? All you need to do is turn off auto login. Here is how you do it.
Regardless of your operating system, you should always install an antivirus. After its incredible handling with Mac Guard, I have decided to entrust Sophos with the security of my Mac. Here is how you install it.
These three things will make your system safer and more secure from cyber attacks. however, the best antivirus isn’t ‘idiot-proof’ so browse the web with care and avoid site that you suspect may be crawling with viruses. Otherwise, you are only asking for trouble.
So the first thing that is very noticeable about Mac OS X is that it won’t detect any Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection. Many forums have guided their Acer counterparts to replace their network card saying that the one built into the D250 in particular isn’t compatible. Well, it isn’t necessary and as you install other kexts, only a few are needed to get Safari up and running.
UPDATE: For an updated version of installer preparation that is more general and detailed, click here.
My recommendation is to make a dual boot. This way, if Mac OS X ever decides to roll back its functionality that you can still use Windows peacefully.
If you don’t want a dual boot and want Mac OS X only, then you can skip this step.
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