The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh [OS X 10.8.2]

The Best Hackintosh Laptops of 2012 - For Mountain Lion It's very difficult to find a laptop that can easily be turned into Hackintosh. As mentioned in our Hackintosh compatibility guide, most laptops aren't good Hackintoshes, because the compact design of laptops makes it very difficult to replace non-compatible parts. With this in mind, I've compiled a list of Hackintosh-compatible laptops, all of which can run OS X Mountain Lion without the need to replace any hardware. LATEST UPDATE (APRIL 18, 2014): Check out our updated list, The Best Hackintosh Laptops of 2013-2014. HP ProBook 4530s ($500-$950) What You Get: The HP ProBook 4530s is a standard sized laptop with a 15.6-inch screen, and a pretty great keyboard. Hackintosh Ability: The ProBook 4530s is pretty much the gold standard of Hackintosh laptops. Unlike most laptops, setting up Mac OS X on the ProBook 4530s is pretty easy. However, even once you get Mountain Lion working, not everything is perfect. Resources: Guide to Installing Mountain Lion on HP Probook | Forum | FAQ

Puppy Games - Revenge of the Titans At first they came from the skies. In the ensuing war, Earth was laid waste, but we had won... But that was just the first strike - now the invasion has landed! Defeat the returning Titan horde in a series of epic ground battles, save the Earth, again, and command the counterstrike against their homeworld! Construct and command your ground defences in a series of increasingly massive battles across the solar system, in our frenetic arcade mash-up of Real Time Strategy and Tower Defence! Take a visit to R&D to discover the latest technology, then build a network of blaster turrets, rocket launchers and laser cannon, explosives, barricades and shield generators, refineries and reactors, and send forth your own droid army to battle the invading alien forces!

CustoMac It's an amazing time once again to build a computer. Intel's "Ivy Bridge" CPUs alongside with the latest motherboards are the fastest and most compatible consumer components we've ever tested. There is native support for Thunderbolt, NVIDIA GeForce 6xx "Kepler" graphics cards, and Ivy Bridge in OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. On the pro front, Apple hasn't updated their Mac Pro since 2010, but Intel's "Sandy Bridge-E/EP" has native kernel support. Socket 2011 CPUs are available in quad core, hexacore, and octacore (Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon only) options. Maximum RAM on single socket LGA-2011-based motherboards is 128 GB, making the platform ideal for tasks that need extra headroom. For maximum ease of use with tonymacx86.com guides and methods, we put together some general hardware recommendations. Ivy Bridge CustoMac Budget Build A powerful desktop build with budget-minded parts and no graphics card. Ivy Bridge CustoMac Pro Build Socket 2011 CustoMac Pro Build Operating System Gigabyte Motherboards

HACKINTOSH.ORG | Macintosh discussion forums - Index buildlog.net - CNC Laser Buildlogs UniBeast: Install OS X Mountain Lion on Any Supported Intel-based PC UniBeast Overview 1. Purchase the OS X Mountain Lion Application from the Mac App Store 2. Prepare a UniBeast USB flash drive 3. In order to start fresh, you'll need access to a functional computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later. 11. 13. 14. The process will only take about 10-15 minutes, depending on system and drive speed, but may show hours. STEP 3: Install OS X Mountain LionYou're almost done! 1. 3. 4. Optional Boot Arguments & Troubleshooting Tips For some hardware, it may be more difficult to get to the installation screen. You may have to type extra boot arguments in the system at the boot screen you see above. Black Screen, White Screen, Flickering ScreenIt's your graphics or possibly your choice of graphics port. npci=0x3000This setting may be necessary on motherboards using Fermi and Kepler NVIDIA cards for installation. PCIRootUID=0 UniBeast has PCIRootUID=1 set by default for the most universal support for recommended builds. 5. a. 7. 1. Yay!

Update: New 25 GPU Monster Devours Passwords In Seconds | The Security Ledger Editor’s note: I’ve updated the article with some new (and in some cases) clarifying detail from Jeremi. I’ve left changes in where they were made. The biggest changes: 1) an updated link to slides 2) clarifying that VCL refers to Virtual OpenCL and 3) that the quote regarding 14char passwords falling in 6 minutes was for LM encrypted – not NTLM encrypted passwords. - Paul There needs to be some kind of Moore’s law analog to capture the tremendous advances in the speed of password cracking operations. Gosney’s set-up uses a pool of 25 virtual AMD GPUs to brute force even very strong passwords. A presentation at the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway (slides available here - PDF), has moved the goalposts, again. Gosney’s system elevates password cracking to the next level, and effectively renders even the strongest passwords protected with weaker encryption algorithms, like Microsoft’s LM and NTLM, obsolete. “Passwords on Windows XP? Gosney is no stranger to password cracking.

myHack Guide | myHack Last Updated: 2013/10/24 This guide is not intended as an all-inclusive how-to for running OS X on your PC. It focuses on how to get up and running with OS X quickly and easily utilizing the myHack application. For questions not covered in this document, please join us in the Forum or on IRC. For Mavericks you will need the Install OS X Mavericks.app or the InstallESD.dmg from it.For Mountain Lion you will need the Install OS X Mountain Lion.app from the app store or the InstallESD.dmg from it.For Lion you will need the Install OS X Lion.app from the app store or the InstallESD.dmg from it.For Snow Leopard you will need a Snow Leopard Retail DVD or a DMG of it.An External Hard Drive or Flash Drive w/ at least 8GB of space. You will also need access to an x86 system (PPC is not supported) that is currently running OS X 10.6 or newer to prepare your installation device (this can be a real mac, a hackintosh, or an OS X virtual machine). Step 1 – Create OS X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8 Installer FakeSMC