Here are my notes for how I set up my Toshiba L450 17Q to run as a Mac. It’s almost completely built so I don’t have the early steps. If I get around to it I’ll put them in. In the meantime …

I bought a copy of Snow Leopard from the Apple Store £26, and followed the guide on www.tonymacx86.com for the installation.

Fixes:

• No wireless. Didn’t want to spend too much time on this so bought this incredibly tiny wireless USB dongle. Edimax 150n Wireless Nano USB. This is seriously a tiny usb dongle but works very well.
• The ” and @ keys are the wrong way around. Fixed this by following the instructions here: http://www.liquidstate.net/2008/07/09/my-hackintosh/
• If I left the laptop for a few hours I’d come back and it was frozen. Only a cold reboot would fix it. There was nothing in the bios that looked to cause it, so I turned off all the Mac power management options to prevent it going to sleep. Seems ok so far.
• Google Chrome doesn’t seem to work too well with Flash. Specifically club penguin doesn’t work. Safari is fine though.
• Fixed the keyboard and mouse not working on startup using the following: http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=15054&start=10. Now I don’t need to boot from DVD.

Outstanding issues:

• No microphone. I’m thinking of getting a usb mic for this. Can’t skype without a mic! I tried using Voodoo but this just resulted in screeching noises on startup.
• Screen resolution is broken. I have a 4500 GMA graphics adapter. Trying this now … http://deviato.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/chameleon-2-rc4-for-intel-gma-version-2/