Directly Install Mac OS X Lion on Your Hackintosh

[divine]

Directly Install Mac OS X Lion on Your Hackintosh, No Crazy Update Process Required

If you've read our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh you know that installing Mac OS X Lion requires a bit of work. You have install Snow Leopard, then go through a fairly tedious upgrade process rather than just installing from scratch. Fortunately, thanks to a new utility called UniBeast (from tonymacx86, of course), that's no longer a problem.

UniBeast not only allows you to create a bootable Lion flash drive for a hackintosh, but it also removes the need to use an iBoot CD to boot. This mean you no longer need an optical drive to create a hackintosh. All you need is a copy of Mac OS X Lion—from the Mac App Store or on a retail USB drive—and an 8GB flash drive of your own. You format that drive with a single partition with a Master Boot Record partition scheme. Once formatted, you run UniBeast and it will take care of all the magic for you. When it's done, you'll be able to boot from it and install Lion. (Note: some extra boot flags may be necessary in some cases, depending on your setup.)

Once Lion has been installed, you'll still need to run MultiBeast to add drivers and other configuration options to get your hackintosh running smoothly but this process will save plenty of time. We'll be updating our always up-to-date hackintosh guide soon to help walk you through the process from picking out parts to completing the installation, but for now be sure to check out tonymacx86's UniBeast installation instructions. They're very thorough and will put a bootable Lion flash drive in your hand with hardly any effort.

 

[Devilstrider]

Lion sucks ass. Stay with OSX

 

[durham]

so is this shit better than windows 7 X64

wonder if its worth the hassle

 

[Flawless]

stick with snow leopard, you cant stream wireless to your wdtv with lion.

 

[ljinsane]

It looks like Lion is turning out to be Apple's 'Vista'

 

[RoomService]

Tip: How to sync files across Macs via iCloud

Christian Zibreg Apple Inc Discussion (27)

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November 3, 2011 at 7:39 am

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Everyone and their brother is working on toppling Dropbox these days, including Google which is said to be close to unveiling a solution named Google Drive, basically a Google Docs storage system lending itself to their other web properties. While Apple is yet to introduce something akin to Dropbox, turns out users can now sync files between Macs – with a bit of trickery.
MacWorld discovered that any file put inside the ~/Library/Mobile Documents/ folder gets synced between Macs via iCloud. This is interesting because this folder was meant only to sync documents in apps that support the Documents & Data feature. MacWorld explains:

This doesn’t really matter. What is of use is that any files put into the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will automatically upload to iCloud and push to any other Mac you have that is signed in to the same iCloud account and has the ‘Document & Data’ iCloud preference checked. Lion even notifies you of version conflicts and allows you to resolve them when you open the document.
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Of course, the finding isn’t terribly surprising. The trick simply uses the iCloud documents storage but it’s noteworthy because it indicates Apple has the backend file syncing infrastructure in place.
With iCloud, Apple retired some of the less popular MobileMe services, including iDisk which enabled Mac and Windows machines to mount their MobileMe cloud storage as a local drive. Per conventional wisdom, it would be prudent if Apple introduced a file syncing solution for Macs (possibly including iOS devices) down the road. It wouldn’t be hard to make this trick standard across all home folders, making a true Dropbox replacement - perhaps even allowing for the home folder roaming via the iCloud.

When Dropbox founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi turned down an $800 million Apple acquisition offer, Steve Jobs reportedly fixed his gaze on the young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, telling them with a mischievous smile that Apple was going after their market, dismissing their offering as “a feature”. Fancy that.

 

[AgentCreed]

the few days i had sl i liked it more than lion... how do i downgrade? lion is a fucking resource hog my mac was running fine on 2gig of ram but then lion got on and my shit was making sounds my windows unit does and it would ram freeze...i got 8gigs now but still lion is a fucking resource hog, its not optimized like sl.

 

[divine]

Lion is the truth.