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The Easy Guide to Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on Your Lenovo S10

Victor Goh — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:11:39 +0000

The Lenovo S10 is a good choice for a laptop/netbook if you want to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on it. The S10 Snow Leopard Enabler makes the installing Snow Leopard on the Lenovo S10 so easy. Just 7 steps and you’re done. No messing around with kext files and stuff after the installation.

The 7 Steps to installing Snow Leopard on a Lenovo S10

Update your Lenovo S10 firmware to 14CN94WW or later.
Format the Lenovo S10 hard drive.
Restore Snow Leopard DVD to a USB thumb drive.
Install the S10 Snow Leopard Enabler on the USB thumb drive.
Install Snow Leopard using the S10 Snow Leopard enabled USB thumb drive.
Boot the newly installed Snow Leopard S10 Lenovo hackintosh.
Run software update to update to 10.6.1 and above.

Success Stories

Here are a couple of Lenovo S10 owners who setup their hackintosh laptop with Snow Leopard Enabler.

$300 MacBook Netbook with Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.1 – Following the guide will get your Lenovo S10 up and running with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 in 30 minutes.
Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on a Lenovo S10e Netbook – An easy installation.

LAN and internal mic is not working on both installation. You can use a headset or external mic with the mic input jack.

Check out our Lenovo S10 Hackintosh page for more links, photos and videos of Mac OS X on the Lenovo S10.

Lenovo S10 Hackintosh Owner Shares His Experience

Victor Goh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:11:23 +0000

After four months of lugging a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse along with the MacBook Pro — which, at 5.5lb, isn’t exactly light to begin with — I decided enough was enough. Since I’ve been wanting to ease some load off of my shoulder, and I couldn’t quite bring myself to buy the new 13-inch MacBook Pro, the time was right for me to consider a smaller and lighter alternative.

To be more specific, it was time to consider a “MacBook Nano.”

Clayton shares about his hackintosh installation experience in an insightful article over at Hackintoshed: Life With My “MacBook Nano”. In the article, he talks about doing his homework on picking the right candidate for his hackintosh, his installation experience and the small annoyances of running Mac OS X on non-Apple laptops.

His conclusion – Small, Light, and It Runs OS X. What’s Not To Like?

Having used the S10 every day for a week now, taking it instead of my 15-inch MacBook Pro everywhere, I can say with certainly that my MacBook Pro will be relegated to my desk on most days, and that my preferred portable computer from hereon will be this ‘MacBook Nano’ of mine.

Are you a Lenovo S10 owner thinking about installing your own Lenovo S10 hackintosh laptop?

How To Install the Lenovo S10 as A Hackintosh Laptop

Victor Goh — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:02:30 +0000

Mac OS X screenshot on the Lenovo S10 taken from Minimal Mac.

If you’re interested to install Mac OS X on your Lenovo S10, there’s a step-by-step installation guide with screenshots over at NetBookTech.com.

So, what works and what doesn’t with the Lenovo S10 as a hackintosh laptop? Here’s the summary according to NetbookTech.com.

What works

Video adapter – Intel GMA 950
Wifi
Touchpad
Webcam

What doesn’t work

Laptop Sleep
Multi-touch function on the touchpad
Ethernet
Sound

I can live without ethernet, sleep or a multi-touch touchpad on a laptop, but a laptop without sound? That’s totally unacceptable to me. The Dell Mini 10v hackintosh is still the better hackintosh laptop.