Running a MAC on Vostro 1510
This year when I decide to get a laptop, I initially wanted to buy a Mac Book. But I turned it down after looking at the price tag which to me was absurdly high. Instead decided to buy a Dell Vostro 1510 and then may be install Mac on it (just to say I am a Mac user)
I finally got my hands on Dell Vostro 1510 (notebook) in March this year. Then I went out on my quest to build a hackintosh out of the laptop. It took me more than 2 weeks nights, 2 full weekends and a full public holiday to get it working. So now my Dell Vostro 1510 is running MAC OS X 10.5.5 along with Vista with functional Ethernet, Wifi, Sound, Graphics card, (partial) touchpad. I am still working on the DV drive fix and hopefully get it soon.
It was a long and frustrating time, I tried the installation at least 30 times, every wrong installation took about an hour to undo and then try again. Corrupted and re-installed Vista twice, corrupted the partition table twice and spent 8 hours on recovery each time, screwed up the Mac’s successful installation twice as well 
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Why did I continue? Because I didnt want the Mac to win 
. And the fact that most people said it could not be done (except for a few at hackint0sh.org).
I ll try to post a detailed tutorial and list of resources used soon
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I would LOVE if you would post a guide about how you did this. I am looking to buy a Dell Vostro 1510 for this same purpose, and I would be eternally grateful for help with the installation. Thanks!
duuuude, I have a dell too and I was leery about doing this myself. Glad to hear you completed it. I would definitely love to get your insights on this installation process.
Please take the time to post the process. I would love to be your hackintosh brother!!!
@chris
@Justin
Yes guys, I would definitely post a tutorial about this. I am just gathering the resources that I used and will soon post tutorial
you gotta post it man. you gotta!
did you get it to shut down and sleep cleanly?
Can’t wait for the tutorial myself, would love it!
I like you to install Mac in Vostro1510, but my keyboard, sound card, wireless network card can be used up to now do not, you can? I installed is iTKOS 5i.
Any estimate on when you will be able to post a tutorial on this?
I almost got it working at the moment. Just missing Advanced Power Options such as sleep and (yes, it’s sad) proper shutdown/restart. Also the media keys don’t work properly.
Wondering if you got it working, would be great if you could give me any word on the distro used (using OSx86 Project with Vanilla Sleep kernel and Leopard 10.5.6 at the moment).
Thanks for the heads up!
Jesse
Yeah it would be awesome to know how you got it all working. Not a like a step-by-step guide, but just a list of the packages you used would be great.
Just wondering, have you made the tutorial yet, and if so, where is it?