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Hi there. I've been a mac owner and user for some time, well since 2009 and the Aluminium MacBook, but after a friend's run in with Apple Support (yes we promise to fix that free of charge, oh wait no we won't) we wondered whether an old D630 from two thousand and something that I'd stuck an Apple sticker on in jest would actually run OSX after all. It's a Core2Duo so we may be in with a chance So here starts my journey into Hackintosh 'ownership'. I've got the retail disk for SL (and restore USB's for Lion and ML) and hacked around with hardware and building PC systems for a few years running both Windows (mostly XP and SBS) and Linux (Redhat and Ubuntu) so I'm hoping that I might be able to get Darwin and OSX running sorta-natively-ish on the old Dell in a week or so (famous last words). Like most people here I like OSX but Apple's silly prices (a £1,000 premium over an equivalent Stinkpad? - errrrrrr, no thanks) and some real flakey hardware (lets just leave the glue gun at home for once Mr Ive?) mean Apple won't be getting any dosh for new hardware in the near future. So here I am - looking to learn new things, play around, get frustrated with my own mistakes and hopefully not turn an old faithful XP laptop into a 3 kilo paperweight. I'll try not to ask dumb questions and that my poking around on these boards will find all the answers I need. So thanks in advance to all the much smarter hackers who have gone before, worked out how to do all the stuff I'm about to try, and been awesome enough to share their knowledge with us all. Kudos to one and all, and see you around! Mondo