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Dell Inspiron 660 with Mountain Lion?

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I'm looking to buy a Dell Inspiron 660 to use with Mountain Lion. This will be my first desktop Hackintosh, having previously run Snow Leopard on a Dell Mini 9.

Has anyone tried Mountain Lion with the 660? I'm looking for a stable machine requiring as little tinkering as possible. Here's what I found on the Dell site for specs:

Inspiron 660 Fast Track 0514
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3330 processor (up to 3.20 GHz)
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 1600MHz - 2 DIMMs
2TB Hard Drive, 3.5", 7200rpm, SATA
Nvidia GeForce 1GB DDR3 GT620 Win8
DVD+/-RW Tray Load Drive, 16X, SATA
Dell DW1506 (802.11 b/g/n) WLAN half mini-Card
Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet
Inspiron660Chassis,MT,Blackw/8:1mediacardreader
Dell KB113 USB Wired Entry Keyboard - US
Dell USB Optical Mouse MS111
Integrated 5.1 audio

Feedback would be appreciated! :)
 
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GA-Z77-DS3H |  i3 3225 |  GTX 970 Mini ITX Overclocked
i would recommend building a computer, as opposed to buying a pre-built system for osx, as there isnt a dsdt for this that i know of, which means you might have to do a lot of tinkering to get it to work, but i dont see why it wouldnt work :)
 
Just wondering if anyone has got dell 660 hack to work?
if so how?

dell 660
i5 3340
12gb ram
Intel hdIntegrated graphics
 
I have a Dell Inspiron 660 running OS X 10.9.4. It works well but needs a few things to make it work. You can't use Dells built in sound it just will not work. I downloaded the latest version of the VooDoo drivers and they work fine with no noise or crackling sound. You also need to purchase an external wifi card and video card. I used a Rosewill wifi card that is recommended in Tonymacx86 buyers guide, and a Asus Geforce GT 610 video card. It is not the most expensive video card that you can get but it works right out of the box. No drivers to install. Everything works in the system including iMessage. And all installed apps. run fine. For around $80.00 I turned my Dell into a Hackintosh. I have Windows 8.1 running on one drive and Mavericks running on a second internal drive.
 
jarjarjar said:
I have a Dell Inspiron 660 running OS X 10.9.4. It works well but needs a few things to make it work. You can't use Dells built in sound it just will not work. I downloaded the latest version of the VooDoo drivers and they work fine with no noise or crackling sound. You also need to purchase an external wifi card and video card. I used a Rosewill wifi card that is recommended in Tonymacx86 buyers guide, and a Asus Geforce GT 610 video card. It is not the most expensive video card that you can get but it works right out of the box. No drivers to install. Everything works in the system including iMessage. And all installed apps. run fine. For around $80.00 I turned my Dell into a Hackintosh. I have Windows 8.1 running on one drive and Mavericks running on a second internal drive.
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Hi can you give me the steps on how you installed os x on your system? I have an Inspiron 660 also and when I tried it just wouldn't work. It wouldn't even boot up into unibeast. I'm presuming that you installed it on a fresh drive.

Thanks, John
 
only boot in safe mode -x
i7 quad 3770
8G ram
gt 640 vram
 
jarjarjar said:
I have a Dell Inspiron 660 running OS X 10.9.4. It works well but needs a few things to make it work. You can't use Dells built in sound it just will not work. I downloaded the latest version of the VooDoo drivers and they work fine with no noise or crackling sound. You also need to purchase an external wifi card and video card. I used a Rosewill wifi card that is recommended in Tonymacx86 buyers guide, and a Asus Geforce GT 610 video card. It is not the most expensive video card that you can get but it works right out of the box. No drivers to install. Everything works in the system including iMessage. And all installed apps. run fine. For around $80.00 I turned my Dell into a Hackintosh. I have Windows 8.1 running on one drive and Mavericks running on a second internal drive.
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Hey, what steps did you take to do this?
 
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