Snow Leopard 10.6.3 running beautifully on my Thinkpad T61p. Running from a second hard drive in the Slim UltraBay (where the CD drive is usually). Everything works - audio (speakers and headphones and mic), wireless, battery, full resolution video with some acceleration - framebuffer or something, but no QE/CL :( Overall fast enough to do work and use as everyday machine, but not good for the fun stuff (like HD videos and games), although probably Baldur's Gate will run fine... OK, so now for the technical part: 1. Get Empire EFI 1085 or Legacy Empire EFI 1085; forgot which one I used, I think it was the Legacy one 2. Burn it to a CD 3. Get Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 retail disk (buy for or download and burn) 4. (Optional) Get another hard disk so you don't mess up your windows - I got a new one, put it in, installed SL using the CD and DVD and then took the hard disk with the installed SL out and put the Win 7 back in; then I put the SL in the Ultrabay (instead of the CD drive) - now I have cool dual booting system without worrying about Mac OS or Win corrupting each other :) 5. Boot from Empire EFI, let it load, then take it out and put in the SL retail disk. Follow the installation instructions. Shut down when finished. 6. You can't boot right from the hard drive yet, so before you start your laptop, put the Empire EFI back in and boot from it, then use it to boot you SL installation on the hard drive (there is an option once Empire EFI is loaded - it recognizes ...
Tags: thinkpad, t61, t61p, lenovo, macosx, Hackintosh, OSX86, Snow, Leopard, Snow Leopard, 10.6.3, Mac OS, Mac OS X, 570m, mmffff
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