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If you want to download OS X Mountain Lion, you will need to upgrade to 10.6.8.
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Upgrading to 10.6.6 will get you the Mac App Store, which is necessary to download Mac OS X Lion.
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The retail DVDs for Mac OS X install either OS X 10.6.0 or 10.6.3. Different manufacturers set different keys for opening the BIOS. To enter the BIOS on my own computer's Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 motherboard, I have to press the delete key when it boots (before the operating system starts). The BIOS is basically a settings page for your motherboard. Also, after installing Mac OS X, you should also sync your clock on Windows with Mac OS X. Otherwise, Windows won't boot afterwards. NOTE: If you already have Windows installed on another internal hard drive in your computer, you may have to enable AHCI for Windows before installing Mac OS X. The Mac OS X installer sometimes has problems with HDMI and VGA.

The 6 GB/s SATA ports simply don't work well with OS X. On Gigabyte motherboards, the 3GB/s ports are blue while the 6 GB/s ports are white. Open up your computer, and make sure that the SATA cables for your hard drive and your DVD/Bluray drive are plugged into the 3GB/s SATA ports on your motherboard, not the 6GB/s SATA ports (these should be labeled on the motherboard). Be sure to download the Snow Leopard edition, not the Lion edition.ġ. Settings up the parts of your computer You need to register an account on to download Multibeast. Download it onto a USB drive, along with the combo update.
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Your Hackintosh probably won't have internet after your initial installation, so you probably want to download this update onto the extra USB drive. Mac OS X 10.6.8 Combo Update (Free - 500 MB): Optional you can update Mac OS X after you finish the initial installation with iBoot.To burn iBoot onto a CD, you need an empty CD and a CD/DVD/Bluray drive that can burn CDs (just about every drive can burn CDs nowadays). If your computer has a CPU that isn't officially supported by Mac OS X, such as an Intel Pentium processor or an AMD processor, then you may have to use iBoot Legacy (which works the exact same way as normal iBoot). You also need to register an account on to download iBoot. iBoot (Free): iBoot is a boot CD that allows you to boot the retail Snow Leopard DVD.Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation DVD ($20): The method used by this guide requires the retail DVD for Mac OS X Snow Leopard.You can override this requirement by using nawcom's ModCD instead of iBoot, but I can't guarantee it'll work. You need a hard drive without anything important on it, because you will be erasing the entire hard drive. An empty hard drive: You cannot install Mac OS X on a hard drive that already has Windows installed.Be sure to read the Hackintosh compatibility guide by macbreaker very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies. A compatible computer: Not every computer will work with Mac OS X, even with the help of tools like iBoot and Multibeast.This guide on installing Snow Leopard attempts to explain every part of the Hackintoshing process, from start to finish (with pictures, courtesy of Virtualbox). Tonymacx86's iBoot+Multibeast install guide is a good start, but it's very basic.
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Though installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC is a rather simple process in theory, it can be a lot more difficult in practice. If you're interested in turning your PC into a Hackintosh, but you have no idea where to start, this is the right guide for you.
