How to make a Chameleon boot USB drive for your Hackintosh (from Windows!)

Setting up Mac OS X on a PC carries its own inherent risks; despite the fact that Hackintoshes are generally very stable, there's always a chance that your computer will fail to start, for whatever reason. In these cases, your best option may be to temporarily boot Mac OS X with the help of a boot USB drive. From there, you can fix whatever problem your Hackintosh is experiencing. Your Mac OS X installer USB drive can act as backup boot USB drive, but if you don't have yours anymore, you're not out of luck-- you can still create a makeshift boot USB drive on Windows instead.

How to install OS X 10.9 Mavericks on your PC with myHack

This week, Apple publicly released the newest iteration of its Mac OS X operating system, OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Fortunately, Mavericks is just as Hackintosh-compatible as all previous iterations of Mac OS X; Conti released a Mavericks-compatible version of his myHack installation tool within days of the official Apple announcement. If you're interesting in running OS X Mavericks on your PC, it's actually pretty straightforward to set up with myHack.

Dell XPS 8500: The Pre Built Hackintosh Of 2013

Last year, we published an article examining the Dell XPS 8300, one of the few prebuilt computers in the retail market that had been confirmed to work Mac OS X. Since then, however, the XPS 8300 has been superseded by newer computers, with faster processors and updated graphics cards. Instead of the XPS 8300, we now have its successor to work with: the XPS 8500.

Enable HD 2500 graphics on your Hackintosh

In the recent release of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3, Apple added support for Intel's HD 2500 integrated graphics cards for the first time ever. Intel HD 2500 graphics can now display Mac OS X at full resolution with graphics acceleration, opening a plethora of new options for new Hackintosh builds. To learn how to enable this new graphics support, read on.

Preview: New Hackintosh Laptops of 2013

As we've mentioned before, it's extremely difficult to find laptops that can easily be turned into Hackintoshes. Last year, we attempted to address this problem by releasing The Best Hackintosh Laptops of 2012, a list of commercially-available laptops that could run Mac OS X without the need to replace any hardware. The list was eventually divided into two iterations, one for Lion and one for Mountain Lion.

However, the year 2012 has long since drawn to a close; most of the laptops on our 2012 list have been discontinued and are no longer widely available on the retail market. Macbreaker's goal has always been to make Hackintoshing easier for everyone, so with that in mind, a new compatibility list is in order.

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on your PC with Niresh

If you're interested in running Mac OS X, but you don't want to pay ridiculous prices for a normal Mac, then a Hackintosh just might be for you. Right now, the newest iteration of OS X is 10.8, known as Mountain Lion. In this guide, we'll show you how to install Mountain Lion on your PC with the newly released "Niresh" distro.

We've previously covered how to install Mountain Lion on a PC using tonymacx86's Unibeast tool, which requires you to have an existing Mac OS X installation. This usually means that you have to install Snow Leopard on your PC first, or find a real Mac. We've also covered how to install Mountain Lion on a PC using a "distro" like iAtkos, which allows you to jump straight to Mountain Lion. However, you can't set up iAtkos on a regular DVD, and iAtkos doesn't work with AMD or Atom processors. If you find either of these limitations to be inconvenient, then using the Niresh distro instead may be your best option.

UPDATE: Rosewill N900PCE added to our list of Hackintosh compatible wifi adapters

We recently updated our list of Hackintosh-compatible WiFi adapters to include the Rosewill N900PCE. Thanks to the fact that it uses the same Atheros AR9380 wireless chipset as the extremely well-known TP-LINK TL-WDN4800, the Rosewill N900PCE works "out of box" with both Lion and Mountain Lion. This addition increases the count of our list of WiFi adapters to five. If you have any more suggestions for WiFi adapters that work out of the box in Hackintoshes, please email us at info@macbreaker.com, or leave a comment on any relevant article on our website.

How to enable the AMD Radeon HD 7970, 7950, 7870, 7850, 7770, or 7750 on your Hackintosh

Apple added support for the 7000 series of AMD Radeon HD graphics cards last week, in version 10.8.3 of OS X Mountain Lion. Prior to this, 7000-series graphics cards did not work properly in Mac OS X; while you could still boot a Hackintosh with these cards, you couldn't view your computer screen in full resolution or run any applications that required graphics acceleration. With this new support in Mac OS X, however, 7000-series graphics cards have finally become a practical option for your Hackintosh.

projectQ: Hackintosh in the mainstream?

Since their inception, Hackintoshes have been hobbyists' projects-- while the rewards were great, the work has always been hard, long, and quite frankly, tedious. Even today, hardware compatibility is often simply the result of random good fortune (i.e. power management on Gigabyte's newest motherboards). However, the new Z77MX-QUO-AOS motherboard by QUO Computers may be able to change all of this-- if it actually manages to take off.

How to install OS X Mountain Lion in Virtualbox with iAtkos

We've already shown you how to install OS X Mountain Lion on a virtual machine by using Olarila's Hackboot software, which is great practice for installing Mac OS X on your actual computer. However, the Hackboot method was rather long and complicated, and there is now an easier alternative available-- iAtkos ML2. While we've already shown you how to install Mountain Lion on your actual computer with iAtkos, it also works great with virtual machines.