After doing quite a bit of research into building a laptop or notebook with Mac OS X Lion and working QE / CI graphics which is crucial for a lot of great OS X software like Final Cut, Apple Logic Pro and the latest version of Adobe After Effects, I am come to the conclusion that the onboard Intel HD 3000 graphics that come with most laptops out there is a great candidate for a QE / CI capable hackintosh laptop.
If you are going to embark on the journey of installing a Mac OS X hackintosh OSX86 distribution on your PC laptop or PC desktop hardware, you should know that if the graphics adapter you have or plan to get is not compatible or doesn’t have a “kext” drivers for Mac OS X QE / CI graphics acceleration then you should stop right away and save your energy. Trust me I have been down this road.
If you want to install the latest Mac OS X operating system Lion 10.7 for your hackintosh PC or laptop , then you need to watch this video. It has some good visual instructions, basics to get you started. You can turn down the music though.
May have to watch it a few times over, to get the steps familiarized before you actually go ahead and do the hackintosh Lion 10.7 install.
Here’s a good video tutorial of installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 on non-apple hardware (PC hardware/laptop/hackintosh) using the iAtkos s3 v2 hackintosh(osx86) distribution. The quality is video is a bit low, but his verbal info is okay.
He does provide some pretty good information that you should know before embarking on creating a hackintosh PC or laptop. This is a 3rd video he is working on, but this should get things started for you.
The XFX Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT is a great budget video / graphics card for your budget hackintosh build.
It features the Nvidia GPUs for DirectX 10 API certification, this entry-level 8500 GT 256MB (128 bit) card provide adequate gaming performance for less than $100.
Advanced Unified Architecture generates more lifelike character animation and also is the first of its kind that can offload 100% of Blu-Ray and HD DVD movie playback from the CPU.
MacOSXonPC.com believes that people shouldn't pay such high prices for Apple computer hardware with such low hardware specifications, when you are able to take advantage of the stability and ease of use of the Mac OS X operating system with affordable and powerful PC hardware.
Ask yourself, if you can build a powerful Quad Core Intel CPU computer with 4 GB of RAM, and powerful NVidia Graphics running Mac OS X Leopard natively for less than $500 why wouldn't you?
A similar specification from Apple for a Mac Pro desktop starts at $2499 on the Apple website.
The XFX Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT is a great budget video / graphics card for your budget hackintosh build.
