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I could not use the ProBook installer unfortunately (unsupported), but did eventually get 10.10.5 installed and running. I have posted a simple 1st-day post on InsanelyMac that details the basics. I plan to expand this into a full-blown guide with pics/links/downloads on Saturday...

Yes, you read that title correctly. I have Mavericks 10.9.5 installed and running sweetly on my Acer Aspire 4752 (see my thread on insanelymac). This ridiculous laptop has a locked-down BIOS that does not support GUID partitions to boot from the HDD. I tried everything in my power, and...

Rehabman, you are the best. I recently hackintoshed a u450 IdeaPad for a friend. It is 100% except for blackscreen after sleep. It obviously requires some edits to DSDT or some framebuffer kext or some such, to fix Backlight issue. This isn't urgent, just wondering if you know of a foolproof...

Sorry if I am way off base here. I have no intentions of updating to Lion (I need Rosetta). But will Chimera (and Intel HD 3000) work with Core i3 (530) Snow Leopard (non-DSDT) 10.6.8? Or is Chimera a Lion-only bootloader? Or will Intel HD 3000 only work with Lion? Or is HD 3000 support only...

I have a Dell Inspiron 580 Core i3 2.93GHz (mini-tower) with a custom power-supply, heatsink/fan, and graphics card (MSI GeForce 9800 GT 512MB 2xDVI). After days of effort, I was able to actually boot the computer into the installer (no DMA, took 20min to get to the installer). :banghead...