My Hardware
I currently run OSX on:
Other stuff that isn’t important really:
- I use the aluminum keyboard from apple
- I have a Logitech Mx700 USB chordless mouse (Logitech has OSX drivers for it, too)
- All my hard drives are SATA as is my DVD burner, nothing special about them otherwise
To get OSX running I use the following:
- Kalyway’s 10.5.2 distribution
- Kalyway’s 10.5.3 combo update
- 10.5.4 directly from Apple (don’t use software update - download it manually)
- 10.5.5 directly from Apple (download it) using netkas‘ method of constantly removing AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext during the install (otherwise it crashes as I’m running it mid-way through and hoses my installation). All you do is run this in terminal before you start the update:
sudo -s
while sleep 1 ; do rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext ; done - Optionally: download and install the voodoo kernel, which is useful if you have a quadcore system (I found my system gets much, much faster with it). It also fixes a sound bug that some people get where sounds stutter or sound fuzzy right when they begin (but sound fine if they continue playing - as with a movie or an mp3).
- OSX86Tools to set my EFI string for my video card and aquamac’s video drivers
- The _CFGetHostUUIDString fix for IONetworkingFamily.kext found here (this fixes time machine errors)
- MacFuse and NTFS-3g if I want to read/write to NTFS drives in OSX
- Taruga’s AD1988b rev4 drivers for the onboard audio
And here’s the software I use: