JawhnL5

Hello, my name is John, and I am from Derry, New Hamsphire (USA). I've been messing with computers, DOS, Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems such as FreeNAS, FreeBSD, NeXTStep, etc ever since I can remember.

My first attempt at having a successful Hackintosh was many years ago. The OpenDarwin project had just begun, and that was before Apple had started to take advantage of the Intel architecture. I was so excited on the prospect of running OS X on my machine that I downloaded Darwin. I wasn't as excited as I had been when it booted into a terminal! I was very frustrated because I was hoping to see the brilliant OS X GUI.

Once Intel started shipping Macintosh computers with Intel processors, I figured it was only a matter of time before someone was able to trick it to run on a Windows-based computer. Long and behold I had found OSx86 project, a whole wiki dedicated to getting Mac OS X running on unsupported hardware. Now this was around the time that Leopard was just introduced, so I didn't know a whole lot. There were several ways of getting Mac OS X Leopard to run on my Dell Latitude D610, so I had installed it and was running great, everything but wireless, but I was so excited to be using OS X that I didn't care!

Shortly after, I had picked myself up a Dell Latitude D620 with NVidia graphics. I was assuming that since the D610 ran OS X so smoothly, my D620 could do it even better, since it was a Dual Core machine. I looked around OSx86 Project Wiki and found nothing! I was surprised, so I looked on InsanelyMac and found a guide by a user named "leppy700m" to install Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I had purchased a Snow Leopard disc just for this, so I tried it. Installation went fine and I installed kexts and everything, but every time I wanted to boot I had to use the boot CD, which was a pain. On top of that, it was very very sluggish and not because of CPU or RAM since I met Snow Leopard's minimal CPU and RAM requirements (Core2Duo, 4GB RAM). Audio was very slurred, graphics were glitchy and everything. I knew there had to be a simpler way, so I looked and looked and found nothing, so I abandoned the project for a few months.

Few months later I stumbled upon a website called "OSXLatitude," and once I saw Latitude in the name I immediately went for it. I got my system up and running with full Audio, Video, Wireless and everything with ease! Their EDP package was a breeze and they had excellent support! I have never gone to other sites since.

Thanks everybody for this great website! I can't help but feeling the need to return the favour by helping out fellow friends starting their first journey to the Hackintosh world.

~JawhnL5