New to osx86 advise, is it compatible?

I'm considering dual booting mac OS X and windows 8 on my new laptop. I would greatly appreciate any advise against or for attempting this with my PC, is it plausible? Also would like to know what is the difference between lion, leopard, etc which is best and why?
Specs are:


BTW: laptop is touch screen will this work?

Thank you in advance

mcabo004 said:

I'm considering dual booting mac OS X and windows 8 on my new laptop. I would greatly appreciate any advise against or for attempting this with my PC, is it plausible? Also would like to know what is the difference between lion, leopard, etc which is best and why?
Specs are:
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BTW: laptop is touch screen will this work?

Thank you in advance

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It should work. But touchscreen is not really supported by OS X.

You should read here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-compatibility/106791-laptop-compatibility.html

The various 'cat' names were what Apple once used to name the various versions of OS X. The latest now is Mavericks (not using cats anymore).

their is no option to change laptop into achi instead ide in bios.... however I know my chipset is compatible, because the information in device manager states, its a intel chipset family sata achi controller,
please help , thank you in advance

mcabo004 said:

their is no option to change laptop into achi instead ide in bios.... however I know my chipset is compatible, because the information in device manager states, its a intel chipset family sata achi controller,
please help , thank you in advance

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What is your question?

is their any way to enable this pc's achi or install mac on ide

mcabo004 said:

is their any way to enable this pc's achi or install mac on ide

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Most modern laptops are in AHCI mode with no option for IDE. So, it is likely your laptop is already in AHCI mode.

I apologize in advance if I misword anything, when trying to load mavricks from usb initially, it would not not boot up. since my bios is a uefi bios, I have followed what most ple advised me to do, which is disable secure boot, and then enable boot in cms, when I do this it loads the usb properly , I type -v and press enter, and then it starts loading followed by some errors stating achi ....then reboots..... i'm guessing its because I don't have achi enabled in my bios, how can I do this?? like I stated above i'm almost certain its capable but no option is seen, once again thank you in advance

mcabo004 said:

I apologize in advance if I misword anything, when trying to load mavricks from usb initially, it would not not boot up. since my bios is a uefi bios, I have followed what most ple advised me to do, which is disable secure boot, and then enable boot in cms, when I do this it loads the usb properly , I type -v and press enter, and then it starts loading followed by some errors stating achi ....then reboots..... i'm guessing its because I don't have achi enabled in my bios, how can I do this?? like I stated above i'm almost certain its capable but no option is seen, once again thank you in advance

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You should read the compatibility sticky at the top of this forum... You are way off-base on the cause of reboot.

if i'm mistaken sorry nut it states something about legacy mod... I'm not sure, if you could point me in the right direction i'd appretiate it

mcabo004 said:

if i'm mistaken sorry nut it states something about legacy mod... I'm not sure, if you could point me in the right direction i'd appretiate it

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You have a Haswell CPU. Read the note at the bottom of the compatibility sticky (and follow the link). Hint: You need to patch the kernel or use Clover (which can patch the kernel on-the-fly).

Also,

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