Greycat

Just a quick note from a newbie. Success! I have now a functioning copy of Mavericks running on: A Dell E6410 (with core i5, 8GB RAM and the old Intel HD Graphics chipset). This is how I did it. Your own mileage may vary: 1. Followed the Macbreaker Guide for installing the Niresh Mavericks build in a Virtualbox on my Windows machine. This gave me a pretend Mac. -Which is slow and clunky, and unable to run anything requiring Apple's Core Graphics processes, (which I need for the application I have to work with), but it IS good enough to do all the things necessary to take the next step: 2. Using my new Virtualbox Mac, I followed patel4prez's Guide and used the Myhack software from the Myhack website to create the bootable USB installation stick needed to turn my Dell Latitude E6410 into a full-on, NOT virtual Mac. Note: The OS X 10.9 Mavericks app necessary to build the bootable USB installation stick at the time I was planning all of this, was free on the Apple app store. Personally, I think they're being a bit liberal with the term "app" -The thing is a honkin' huge 5GB installation package. For me, an "app" is an angry bird or a flashlight. But anyway.., barely a few hours into this whole build-a-Hackintosh process, Apple pulled the silly thing from circulation. The link was there when I started, and then when I needed to download it, poof! Gone. Talk about crazy timing. Luckily, I found a clean copy of the massive "app" in this torrent. 3. I then Followed Ghostrider's (from Insanelymac) Guide to setting up the Intel HD Graphics chipset. It worked. The end product is a functioning Hackintosh with Core Graphics enabled and no problems! (All it took was the knowledge and expertise from three excellent Hackintosh forums, and rather more hours of bleary-eyed tinkering than I'd prefer to admit. But it LIVES!) So, Cheers and thank-you all for sharing your knowledge and coding genius. You helped save me from having to buy a $1500 machine I only need for the duration of a single job. You're all awesome!