REALTEK WIFI DRIVERS FOR AN ASPIRE ONE ZG5 MAC OS X
Mac OS X 10.6 install DVD, or an image of this.This guide is based on a guide and files by Neodymium at Insanelymac as a starting point, with modifications to reduce the amount of terminal work. I chose a 60Gb USB Hard Drive since the only 8Gb Pen Drives I have are very slow on my main hackintosh. This involves copying the Mac OS install DVD to a USB pen drive or USB hard drive and making the necessary modifications to boot the installer on PC hardware. In a recent post I detailed my updated 10.6 install using a bootCD so this time I tried another method. The biggest failing is the lack of compatibility with the Atheros WiFi card, but that’s easily fixed as I will cover later. The spec of the Aspire One is fairly standard for a netbook, 1.6Ghz Atom processor and GMA 950 graphics, 1Gb ram and 120Gb hard drive. Crazy money since a new one direct from dell is £250. The Dell 10v is probably a better choice but these are currently selling used for £175-£200. While not the most compatible netbook (sleep and the card readers don’t work), it’s good enough for my requirements and cost me just over £100. I was interested in getting a used netbook from eBay and after watching prices for a few days settled on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. have a great compatibility chart for running Mac OS on a range of netbooks, clearly showing what works. Since my holiday usage is storing photo’s and video with a bit of email and web browsing the ideal replacement would seem to be a netbook.
The cameras are compact and capable of excellent results, but the Macbook while not enormous is still bulky.
Over the past few years the equipment I take on holidays (vacations) had shrunk to a Canon HF100 video camera, Panasonic Lumix LC3 camera and Macbook.