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I just got a new custom gaming laptop, and installed (among others) OSX 10.6 on it. It almost worked, but... see below.
Specs:
sandy bridge cpu i7/2670qm (4c/8h, 2.2GHz)
4GB ram
video: Radeon 6970m discrete video with 2GB vram (chipset based on the desktop 6850)
hdd: the one I installed OSX on is a 320GB Toshiba SATA
network: Jmicron GB
wifi: realtek WLAN+bluetooth combo
Things that worked out-of the box:
sound, at least to some extentsome - it's very distorted, but works nonetheless
firewire, USB2 ports, but not the USB3
Not recognized properly: CPU (obviously), video ("unknown ATI 1GB")
The system also wouldn't boot with iBoot, had to use iBoot legacy.
So next I installed Updatehelper, rebooted through iBoot legacy, installed the 10.6.8 combo and multibeast. Rebooted again this time without iBoot legacy.
Problem I have after that, no image on the screen. I think otherwise the system booted fine, there is disk activity etc but the screen remains blank. It probably doesn't recognize the video card (though imacs lately come with the 6970 IIRC so that shouldn't be a problem)
What next?
(edit) adding specs from the manufacturer:
chipset HM65
audio Realtek HD (from device manager:HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_15585102&REV_1003)
JMicron PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (dunno chipset model)
Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n COMBO PCI-E NIC
video: 2GB GDDR5; AMD Radeon Mobility HD6970M (BlackcombXT);
http://www.eurocom.com/download/m219.html
Specs:
sandy bridge cpu i7/2670qm (4c/8h, 2.2GHz)
4GB ram
video: Radeon 6970m discrete video with 2GB vram (chipset based on the desktop 6850)
hdd: the one I installed OSX on is a 320GB Toshiba SATA
network: Jmicron GB
wifi: realtek WLAN+bluetooth combo
Things that worked out-of the box:
sound, at least to some extentsome - it's very distorted, but works nonetheless
firewire, USB2 ports, but not the USB3
Not recognized properly: CPU (obviously), video ("unknown ATI 1GB")
The system also wouldn't boot with iBoot, had to use iBoot legacy.
So next I installed Updatehelper, rebooted through iBoot legacy, installed the 10.6.8 combo and multibeast. Rebooted again this time without iBoot legacy.
Problem I have after that, no image on the screen. I think otherwise the system booted fine, there is disk activity etc but the screen remains blank. It probably doesn't recognize the video card (though imacs lately come with the 6970 IIRC so that shouldn't be a problem)
What next?
(edit) adding specs from the manufacturer:
chipset HM65
audio Realtek HD (from device manager:HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_15585102&REV_1003)
JMicron PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (dunno chipset model)
Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n COMBO PCI-E NIC
video: 2GB GDDR5; AMD Radeon Mobility HD6970M (BlackcombXT);
http://www.eurocom.com/download/m219.html