Questions before install

[MrBluePotato]

Ok so I have a Samsung Ativ Book 8 that I reallyyy want to turn into a hackintosh (especially after WWDC today) and I have a few questions.

• First, it has to be dual boot and it has to not require a clean hard drive. My harddrive is already GUID (http://puu.sh/9ctHz/cf26a57687.png) so I think all I have to do is create a new partition and then do that Unibeast thing, right?
  
• How well will everything work. Like, will it sleep normally? Will changing the BIOS settings affect how my PC runs in windows?
  
• And lastly, the devices and stuff: are they going to work? (http://puu.sh/9ctTc/c701b988ea.png) I have integrated graphics (intel) and an external card (amd radeon 8800m) so how will os x choose what card to use? I almost always use the integrated chip unless I'm watching an hd video or playing a game so will os x choose which chip is best for what i'm currently doing? I have an i7 so i think thats okay (its not an amd sooooo)

I know this is a lot of questions that probably seem dumb haha, but I'm generally a very cautious person so I want to make sure I know everything that is going on before I do something intense like this.

 

[RehabMan]

Ok so I have a Samsung Ativ Book 8 that I reallyyy want to turn into a hackintosh (especially after WWDC today) and I have a few questions.

[*]First, it has to be dual boot and it has to not require a clean hard drive. My harddrive is already GUID (http://puu.sh/9ctHz/cf26a57687.png) so I think all I have to do is create a new partition and then do that Unibeast thing, right?

You would have to use Clover. Chimera/Chameleon cannot boot a UEFI install of Windows (which, if your disk is GPT, your Windows must be UEFI).

[*]How well will everything work. Like, will it sleep normally? Will changing the BIOS settings affect how my PC runs in windows?

You will not know until you install and start fixing things...

[*]And lastly, the devices and stuff: are they going to work? (http://puu.sh/9ctTc/c701b988ea.png) I have integrated graphics (intel) and an external card (amd radeon 8800m) so how will os x choose what card to use? I almost always use the integrated chip unless I'm watching an hd video or playing a game so will os x choose which chip is best for what i'm currently doing? I have an i7 so i think thats okay (its not an amd sooooo)

Discrete graphics will not work in a switched configuration (in that config, Intel only).

Other devices depend on specifics. Read here: http://www.tonymacx86.com/laptop-compatibility/106791-laptop-compatibility.html

 

[MrBluePotato]

What would clover be used for? Like for booting every single time or just for booting unibeast? Otherwise, can't I just use EasyBCD?

 

[RehabMan]

What would clover be used for? Like for booting every single time or just for booting unibeast? Otherwise, can't I just use EasyBCD?

Clover is a UEFI enabled bootloader. It can boot Windows, Linux, etc. using UEFI (and the bootloader itself starts via UEFI). I'm not sure about using EasyBCD from a UEFI Windows environment to a legacy bootloader like Chimera/Chameleon.

 

[MrBluePotato]

Im totally lost. So tell me if this is right:
Computer turns on -> goes to bootloader (is this dependent on the operating system [ie. windows will use windows bootloader, os x will use clover bootloader) -> boots os.

or is it
computer turns on -> goes to os choser screen (easybcd?) -> choose os -> runs os bootloader -> boots os

I can turn off UEFI and enable legacy BIOS so would that fix everything?

 

[RehabMan]

Im totally lost. So tell me if this is right:
Computer turns on -> goes to bootloader (is this dependent on the operating system [ie. windows will use windows bootloader, os x will use clover bootloader) -> boots os.

or is it
computer turns on -> goes to os choser screen (easybcd?) -> choose os -> runs os bootloader -> boots os

I can turn off UEFI and enable legacy BIOS so would that fix everything?

With Clover:
- computer turns on
- Clover UEFI loads
- you select which OS you want to use
- Clover boots the OS of your selection via UEFI method (loading the respective bootloader), or in the case of OS X, via emulation of Mac EFI firmware.

So, Clover is both a "boot manager" (allowing you to choose a bootloader) and a "bootloader" as UEFI BIOS cannot boot OS X directly, but instead needs help (Clover).

If you turn off UEFI in BIOS, you won't be able to boot your installed copy of Windows anymore.

You may be able to install a legacy bootloader such as Chimera, but then choose to boot UEFI via BIOS hotkey to get to your existing Windows install or get to legacy bootloader like Chimera. But that capability varies by BIOS/machine and cannot be predicted.