Has anyone tried OS X on their Clevo?

Has anyone tried running OS X on their Clevo? and If so, did it work? I really want to use some of OS X's software ( Im a big fan of both final cut and XCode) but I can't really stomach paying ~2000 dollars for a low voltage processor and 4 gbs of ram.

 

I too would like to know if this is possible

 

Run it in a VM.

 

I was thinking more in like a hackintosh fashion, whether it would work that way

 

Wouldn't it work just like on any other PC?

 

As in not very well

Hmm, the current Sagers all use new Nvidia cards. Don't think OSX would have very good compatibility with those, unless you can fool it (I believe that's what kexts are for?).

 

they have had nvidia in the past like the 330m so it could work, but you would need do some serious hacking.

 

can you fool it to run solely on iGPU ?
Here are some info for you guys, this is from the P150/170 HM
tonymacx86 Forum • View topic - Quick & Dirty Guide to install OS X on Clevo P170HM
tonymacx86 Forum • View topic - Official Clevo P150HM1/P170HM1 thread
HCL 10.7.2/Portables - OSx86

 

Might wanna read the rules about hackintosh. IIRC they like to close threads like this.

 

^ nah, Admin announced it's ok to discuss this matter sometime earlier

 

OK for 150/170 HM models this will work yes, because it's a single GPU machine and the optimus isn't working on it even it you get an intel HD embedded CPU.

For the EM on the other hand you wont get far, trust me I've tried with my original OSx Lion USB stick, the installer and the machine will boot up fine and with a little tweaking like disable graphics enabler and routing the PCI bus to 0 BUT you wont get any display so you can't install anything. Unless someone releases a hack or a patch to bypass the optimus feature entirely this will risk not seeing the light of day anytime soon.

 

Consider me a total newbie regarding this... But this is for a direct install of the OS?

Would running OSX thru parallels/VM stillwork?

 

yes this is in regard to booting OSX vanilla no hacks, only the bootloader needs hacking the kernel and the rest of the OS is untouched.

you can run it in VM and parallels no problems, only running it directly would benefit you it's full potential and speed.Only need I want OSX is for my final cut pro, the rest windows 7 manages great

 

^^ Its too bad they don't release a version of Final Cut for windows, I'm not really a fan of Vegas and thats the closest thing.

 

my legacy projects are in FCP I swear the trial version of CS6 blows it out of the water, I'm set on buying the license from adobe, now that they have that lease thing where you're able to "rent" any version from their cloud, it gives me a new perspective as my ROI is better that way. Vegas is good too but if you want truly custom and control there's no way but adobe.

 

How does CS6 run on your 675? does it take advantage of the CUDA?

 

CUDA works with it fine, I just had to edit the supported list for it to be enabled,but after that tweak it works wonders , I get realtime playback while editing 1080p RAW videos

 

Last time I've tried OS X virtualization, I couldn't get QE/CI, which is a requirement for any graphics-accelerated application. No one has been able to successfully code a fully working QE/CI compliant graphics driver for use in VMware.

Ideally, to get the most out of the computer, you'd want it it boot from the HD, because then you wouldn't have to worry about having the host OS underneath the virtualization layer take up system resources and because abstracted virtual hardware devices can be a pain to work with.

I hope to be receiving my P150EM by July, so I'll test it then.

 

Just a word of warning before the mods come: It's against forum rules to talk about "hackintosh" since it's illegal for OSX to run on anything other than Apple hardware.

Mr. Mysterious

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sit...ts/657029-you-can-now-discuss-hackintosh.html

It's ok now

 

oh ouch so sorry about that ok I'll stop talking of Hackintoshes, I had thought only to answer a question as if a Clevo would be an ideal candidate to run one, I didn't mean to spur any missconception

 

You can continue Hackintosh discussion. Mods removed the ban against it. Check the bottom of the last page for the thread.

 

Oops, sorry about that. Lol I always think I know the forum rules

Mr. Mysterious

 

Well, you can continue discussing it so long as the OS was obtained LEGALLY.
Folks have been discussing it over in the Asus forums for a while now.

 

Ok thanks for the heads up, I'll only discuss it in terms of what you need to do to the machine or the tools you need. I wont post any torrent or link as to where one might get a copy of OSX.

 

Im still waiting on my computer ( the 7970m fiasco ) so I still can't do any testing myself :/

 

I bet that 7970m would work, the nvidia doesn't as the bootloader reverts to an intel HD series card, then when you reach the mach kernel initialization phase it picks up the nvidia card and you hang there forever. But if you bypass the nvidia card and issue a "GraphicsEnabler=No" command it would boot all the way into the setup screen, but you wont see anything as it's missing proper support to switch from internal GPU to discrete GPU, to make it worse Clevo bios doesn't allow you to deactivate the internal GPU since it's locked out

 

BOTH GPUs are fully muxed together. There is no way to force using either iGPU or dGPU


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Optimus capable mac book air is able to demux the chips. Also Samsung variants having the GT630 GT650m cards are able to hackintosh fine it's because they have the option to force which card goes first in the bios. Whereas Clevo lappy's don't have that option cause it's hidden/removed.

 

I believe it's dGPU then iGPUn the EM models because without a dGPU, the notebooks freak out and shutdown. If it's the other way around, I'm sure one can boot without dGU


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yes it's this way, no need to rip it out actually, just need a way to organize the way they are booting up. Would love to boot this with a hackintosh these specs are enough to give geekbench a boner

 

I believe apple is switching back to Nvidia for mountain lion.

 

CUDA tweak for CS6??
Adobe CS-6 Dumped CUDA and went openGL, which is where the new Kepler based cards are ticking us off

AMD and Adobe Announce OpenCL Support in Creative Suite 6 by VR-Zone.com

http://blenderartists.org/forum/sho...Creative-Suite-6-With-the-MGE-they-ditch-CUDA.
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2012/05/opencl-and-premiere-pro-cs6.html
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/979969

 

They actually didn't dump CUDA they "added" support for OpenCL so other cards can have benefits of GPGPU computing. below are two screenshots that show OpenCL and CUDA inside Adobe CS6. OpenCL is supported in Photoshop, while After effects and Premiere does both OpenCL (as OpenGL) and CUDA specific instruction sets.

 

Well, what kext on a Nvidia-based MBA allows for graphics switching? I imagine it can't be too difficult to patch in preliminary support for a 6xx series card, and force it to run on the integrated card thereafter. "Difficult," of course, is subjective, since Hackintoshing is never easy.

I think that at least being able to harness the iGPU for general graphics would be a good stepping stone until 6xx series support is developed by someone (Tonymacx86, the people at InsanelyMac, etc) or until the GPU switching option is enabled via a BIOS update.

 

I firmly doubt they'd let you mess with GPU switching options in an update these things are locked down

 

Maybe not on a BIOS level, but perhaps OS side we can get some magic happening.

I've yet to look through Lion's default kexts (or learn how to write .kexts), but I don't think it should be that difficult to take the kext that controlled Optimus on the older MacBooks, plug in the HIDs for the GTX controllers, and force it to disable the dGPU at runtime. HD4000 will then allow for general work.

 

i've tried it while running vmware on top of windows 7, works pretty good.

 

It would be cool to see how it operates with Vmware on the new Clevo laptops. If anyone has the time to install it and try, please do. I think it would run fine. I had it running on an i3-380m and the only issue was the response time when typing or opening apps

 

So I ordered a Sager NP9170 and am now very interested in learning whether I can run Mac on it also. Anyone know if there's any more status on hackintoshing it on a 7970m machine?

 

Given its extremely limited availability thus far, I don't know whether anyone has actually been able to test the 7970M in a Hackintosh. I'd imagine that there would be major compatibility issues with the dGPU, since the Tahiti-based cards have no working OS X implementations (none yet, anyway). However, Apple likes using AMD cards, so there's a possibility these cards can get acceleration based off of what OS X already has. It's the same situation with the GTX 670M and 675M; since its a new controller, there's no proper support yet.

I'm going to try this out when I get my NP9150.

 

I've tried every possible way known to me thus far but no cigar. I only needed OSX to port over my final cut projects to premiere, so I ended up using VMware which to my surprise worked like a charm, no lag no nothing. when I finish my porting I'll uninstall it and stay on win7 for the rest of my productions

 

Has anyone with a 7970M tried this yet?

I'm slated to receive my Clevo today, so I'll try it out when Windows is installed and properly configured.

 

Any actual success stories? I'm looking at the NP6165 but am worried about the motherboard being supported, as well as essentials like the fan. CPU and 650M should work fine in Mountain Lion. Not going to buy it only to find I can't run Mac OS primarily so any responses would be greatly helpful and appreciated. Thanks.

 

I'm waiting for HD6990m to be supported. :/

 

Success installation with Clevo P170EM using niresh12495 mountain lion 10.8 []
THINGS THAT WORKS:
sound using MultiBeast
ethernet
bluetoth vanilla
webcam vanilla
update: hd4000 now work WITH QE/CI


sorry for my english

 

Is this even allowed to be discussed on NBR? It is against Apple's license/agreement to install OS X on any machine other than an Apple.

 

yes it is fine to discuss hackintosh on these forums. It may violate Apples EULA but since that restriction is null and void due to consumer protection laws in so many countries, it was deemed acceptable as long as there is no discussion on pirating the OS itself.

 

after vanilla installation using mountain lion 10.8.2 downloaded from App Store this is My geekbench


sorry for my english

 

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is the advantage of using this os? I've never heard of anyone running osx on a pc before. Are you just more familiar with that operating system?