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Mountain Lion 10.8.1 Update

Posted on 4th September 2012

Apple has rolled out it’s first major update of 10.8 Mountain Lion. This release is quite small and weighs in at around 44Mb. The great news for those of us running custom hardware is that there is no major kexts that are replaced. So there is no real need to update your collection of kexts, but you should always make sure that you have a solid backup prior to installing or restarting when you are notified to restart.

Apple Update Available

Apple Update is requesting a restart.

Once you have a solid backup of the system, you can now restart and see. On my mackintosh, there was no issues. The system resumed normal operation. You can head over to tonymacx86 for more information on the update.

Remember to never restart your Hackintosh until you have confirmed if you need to replace any kexts with future updates from Apple.

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Hackintosh Mountain Lion Upgrade

Posted on 20th July 2012

As the impending release of OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion is near, it is also time to make sure that we are ready to install Apple’s new OS onto our custom Intel hardware. We will cover the in-place upgrade from OSX Lion 10.7.4 to the GM(Final) release of OSX Mountain Lion.

This procedure has been confirmed to work with the official release of Mountain Lion in the App Store.

A clean install of Mountain Lion will not be covered in this article, but you can refer to this site which will walk you through a clean install. A clean install is great if you want to start from scratch, but for the rest of us with a lot of data, read on.

Tonymacx86 has released Unibeast for Mountain Lion which can be used to perform a clean install.

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Intel i5 “Sandy Bridge” OSX Lion Install on Asus P8Z68-V/GEN3

Posted on 21st January 2012

I came to a point where I felt that my simple Intel e2200 Hackintosh system was in need of an upgrade. I had been wanting to look into building either an i5 or i7 Sandy Bridge system. When a local retailer decided to put the i5-2600k and i7-2600k on sale, I could not resist the temptation and found myself researching for the perfect motherboard.

Here, I will outline the software build from start to finish, and show how easy it is to build a i5 Sandy Bridge Hackintosh with OSx Lion.