sridhar1516 Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 Can anyone please advise how I can install OSX on Dell Latitude D800. If someone has already done it can you please assist with instructions. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted October 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 21, 2012 thats a pentium 4 laptop you might be able to run 10.5 leopard but you will need some sort of modified kernel. or one of those distro installers that work with p4. i personally have not had much luck with pentiums and osx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 21, 2012 Actually, the D800 is Pentium M/Centrino based with Intel 855PM chipset, so it runs on Banias or FSB400-Dothan CPUs. Best CPU would be PM 765 at 2.16GHz with 2Mo L2 cache. That laptop uses DDR SDRAM, AGP nVidia graphics and an IDE/PATA HDD controller.That is getting pretty ancient and, indeed, Leopard is probably the best possible OS X candidate. A quick search showed that this laptop has been successfully hacked on Tiger; that shows how old it is...I have an Inspiron 6000, a nearly-as-ancient but slightly better model, with chipset 915GM, i.e. support for FSB533 CPUs (which I run as an overclock). I still haven't managed to install SL on it (mostly because I have trouble getting the ICH6 controller supported), so it remains on Leopard 10.5.8. By all means, have a go at hacking it with ModCD and retail Snow Leopard (ideally 10.6.3). That will use a legacy kernel, i.e. the only supported kernel you could operate on that system. But do not expect much out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted October 21, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 21, 2012 Have a look at the Wiki pages of osx86 project web site (Tiger 10.4.11 or Leopard 10.5.6 - alternatively look for Leopard 10.5.8 for Inspiron 6000) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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