#Hackintosh: Install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on ThinkPad X61T (Tablet) ##Introduction. Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) on ThinkPad X61T (Tablet), Video card working, Audio card working, Wired network working, Hot key working, IBM Red point working, Smart scroller working, Finger scan device working, Extended display working, USB working, Almost all working, and the high resolution display. If you do download and install Mac OS X Snow Leopard, you can continue to obtain combo updates all the way through Mac OS X 10.6.8 through Apple Support, and they should still be available through the Software Update mechanism on the older Mac OS X release as well.

1. Install Snow Leopard On G5 Hacks

Elbert Zip Johnson wrote: I notice a few guys on you tube talking about upgrading this system to 10.6 & higher. My question is has anyone tried to upgrade their old mac pro to 10.6 or higher? There is no such thing as a 'Mac Pro G5'. There are PowerMac G5 minitowers, which use the PowerPC G5 microprocessor.

Those can't run Snow Leopard (10.6) or higher. While Snow Leopard contains a translator/emulator (Rosetta) to run Mac OS X / PowerPC binaries, Snow Leopard itself requires x86 (Intel) chips. There are also Mac Pro minitowers. Apple changed over to the Mac Pro name when they changed over to Intel microprocessors. According to MacTracker, even the earliest Mac Pro (which shipped with an Intel version of Tiger), can take anything up to Mac OS X 10.7.5.

Once you get up to the Early 2008 Mac Pros, MacTracker starts showing that they can run the latest release of Mac OS X. Elbert, I too have an old G5 Tower and just gave it new life at our church. I originally added a SeriTek SATA card and something like Sonnet but from a company in California. Since you are familiar with G5 looking at it after taking out the plastic case the left hand side on the lower end I put in 3 SATA drive it had an L bracket and fan. I snaked the SATA cable to the card. The power supply could handle it.

It served me well. Later I picked up a 'road apple' (unknown to me at the time) a 2006/2007 Intel Mac Pro. When I found out it was not able to take 10.8 or 10.9 there was a lot of grumblings from owners of that vintage. I ended up getting last year a 27' iMac 1TB Fusion drive and JBOD to hold four SATA drives. Then I stumbled onto a forum about fellows making a Hackintosh out the 2006 MacPro until one clever fellow made a custom bootEFI that could be used.

Now my Mac Pro which has a 32 BIT EFI (Hence Road APPLE) is running 10.9. I did put in a GT-630 Nvidia card that used the native mac drives but since its a Peecee card no boot screen until log in. Here is an image when I had an 8600 card in it. But I would be looking to Intel Mac as you will be hobbled with the PowerPC structure and not a lot of software or compatible browsers. That being said as long as the present software does the job you will have to make your own decision. Elbert, On that old G5 that our religious ed dept is using is hobbled similar to those of us with WinXP. I could not use Firefox but did find another browser for the teacher to use called 'TenfourFox' a derivative of Mozilla Firefox but at least its more secure than Safari 3.x thats with 10.5.

I also had to find a virus checking software that supports 10.5 and ClamXav that still has support for 10.4 and 10.5. This is to protect her from sending any windows virus to the Diocese. I was going to use the G5 as file server but ended up copying files that I needed to much larger drives and using the JBOD box to hold 4 hard drives for the iMac. So if you have that Intel MacPro 1,1 or 2,1 you can update but the downsize is its hog on the electric bill. When I got iMac and had it setup with external drives my electric bill decreased and that was during the air condition season.

Good luck on what you do. Elbert Zip Johnson wrote: WoW thats deep if I can convert my: Model Name: Mac Pro Model Identifier: MacPro1,1 According to the references I've seen, a MacPro1,1 machine can run anything up to Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion). There are technical issues that prevent running 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.9 (Mavericks) and there are also guides on the Internet from people who claim to have hacked their Mac Pros to get the later OSes to work on them.

These hacks may require specific new hardware (e.g., new graphics card known to be supported by later OSes; extra hard drive) and require careful attention to procedure. If something goes wrong, you may be left on your own for troubleshooting/fixing it. As to where to get newer OSes, the place to start is with Snow Leopard (10.6).

Apple still sells it on DVD for $30; it doesn't show up if you casually browse the Apple Store pages, but if you do a search for it, it is there. You need Snow Leopard even if it is not your final destination, as 10.6.8 is the first version of Mac OS to include the Mac App Store. Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8) are also still available, as Mac App Store downloads, for $20 each. I don't know if the Lion download is old enough to install on your machine; Apple may have updated it to the latest Lion release.

Mavericks is a free Mac App Store download and is not hidden away in 'you can only find me if you know the right way to look for me' limbo like the others. But keep in mind that neither Mountain Lion nor Mavericks will run on your machine without hacks. Snow Leopard is the last version of Mac OS X that has support for running PowerPC-only Mac OS X applications. Since you are using one of the earliest Mac Pros, and were earlier using a PowerMac G5, you might well be using many of those. Lion supports some newer applications that Snow Leopard doesn't, but Apple seems to be trying to bump everyone up to Mavericks for iLife, iWork, & Aperture. Unless you can identify specific benefits to going with Lion, or are willing to take the risk of hacking the machine to run a newer OS, I would think Snow Leopard would be the best update here.

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Jen Yates wrote: I think I'll try the hack to run at lease snow leopard You have misread these posts. It is NOT possible to run Snow Leopard or any newer flavour of OSX on your G5. These operating systems require an x86 (Intel) CPU and your Mac is based on a Power PC processor. They are not compatible. From the info posted earlier in this thread, it sounds like the OP has acquired an early Mac Pro since his previous '10.5.8 upgrade' thread of a few months ago.

(In that thread, it was clear that he had only a PowerMac G5.) The new machine is not a G5. He can install Snow Leopard on the Mac Pro (although not on the PowerMac G5 if he still has that). Also, I believe there is no need to 'hack' the firmware on the Mac Pro to get it to run Snow Leopard (in 32-bit kernel mode). It should just install and run. The 'hack' would be necessary to upgrade to later versions of Mac OS X that require the hardware/EFI to support 64-bit kernel mode.

Tom, I've updated mine with 250GB SSD drive for boot up used CCC. The darn thing from chime to log on is 15 sec. I am using a Nvidia GT630 2GB card (peecee) so no boot screen till logon. Not bad for a dinosaur; down side but guys have done it both ways is to have a partition or drive with 10.7 to install the modified bootefi or as I do remove and put it in a dock.

You need to know terminal commands to change the file flags because the new bootefi has to be removed. Then to install change ownership and bless a folder. So removing the drive from the 10.9.1 to 10.9.2 took less than 30 minutes of my life.

All the apps are more responsive with the SSD drive. I see Newegg has a special on a 500 GB SSD but I will wait later on in the year. Even though I have a 27' iMac I am pleased with the new life of my MacPro at least it will have a few more years of work. I just like to have the hard drives inside the box as opposed to JBOD that I have on the iMac. So the biggest hurdle is being comfortable with terminal commands glad that my last job we used Unix work stations and I already knew how to get and put files from work station to workstations on a network. So it good to be familiar with several OS's. Lou Cioccio Erie Pa we are number one for the Snow Globe contest with 121 inches of snow this season!!!

What I don't get about the mac power G5 is why cant you just rip the guts out of the tower and install newer hardware/operating system. Apple would still make money for those of us that can't afford to buy new equipment. Is it just greed or what? I have multiple PC's going back to XP and I am new to all things apple. I love them now that I have them even though I hated Macs when they first came out. I was able to upgrade on my one PC to Vista and on my laptop to windows 7 and put larger memory in all my windows based units.

Microsoft is still making money.i don't get the mindset of Apple to hinder those of us that cant shell out $2700 for the latest and greatest apple has to offer.I wanna scream at them.WTF? I don't want to hack into my G5 to do something. Donna55 wrote: What I don't get about the mac power G5 is why cant you just rip the guts out of the tower and install newer hardware/operating system. Apple would still make money for those of us that can't afford to buy new equipment.

Is it just greed or what? I have multiple PC's going back to XP and I am new to all things apple.

I love them now that I have them even though I hated Macs when they first came out. I was able to upgrade on my one PC to Vista and on my laptop to windows 7 and put larger memory in all my windows based units. Microsoft is still making money.i don't get the mindset of Apple to hinder those of us that cant shell out $2700 for the latest and greatest apple has to offer.I wanna scream at them.WTF?

I don't want to hack into my G5 to do something. It's not worth the money to do so for one, and Apple doesn't sell parts like the PC aftermarket does. Plus Apple doesn't have the headache of supporting DIY machines. On a Mac Pro, you can upgrade RAM, GPU, and drives.

Forget the old PC way of thinking. Apple doesn't work that way.

FWIW, Apple has in the past sold upgrades such as new CPUs, they were mostly just trouble (Both technical and legal.). Donna55 wrote: What I don't get about the mac power G5 is why cant you just rip the guts out of the tower and install newer hardware/operating system. The Power Mac G5 is designed to allow installation of RAM, drives, and expansion cards. It also allows for installation of newer versions of the operating system – up through Leopard.

Snow Leopard requires a CPU that has an x86 architecture, which excludes all of the Power Mac series. If you want to rip the guts out of your Power Mac G5 and destroy it, nobody is stopping you. Of course, to turn a Power Mac G5 (Late 2005) into a Mac Pro (Mid 2012), you'd need to replace just about everything inside the case.

Install Snow Leopard On G5 Hacks

Good luck getting hold of a motherboard (Apple sells them only as repair parts); even if you do, you still won't have Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 or PCI-e SSDs. Those improvements are part of the black cylinder Mac Pro (Late 2013) design. If you still are interested in an aluminum Mac Pro, it would make a lot more sense to purchase one from the Refurbished section of the Apple Store or to to buy one used, than to try to make over an eight to eleven year old machine.

Apple would still make money for those of us that can't afford to buy new equipment. Is it just greed or what? Do Dell and HP go out of their way to help you turn your eight to eleven year old PCs into ones with all of the same specifications as a new PC, at a cost less than that of buying a new PC? Is their lack of interest in this 'just greed or what?'

I may have mis-understood what Elbert was originally describing as he made reference to both a G5 and Intel. That being said people have modded G5 boxes to run intel processors. The problem you would have is a way to mount the mother board and then line up to the slots and finally a power supply. More for the DIY whom likes to do that type of stuff. There are MacPro 2009 and just before the newest those would be a choice as they have 64 bit EFI and lci express slots for USB 3 card (not sure if thunderbolt card as I am sure someone can correct me).

Now in my case I purchased a refurb 27' iMac 3.4Ghz 1T Fusion drive as my 2006 MacPro became an orphan as it had 32 bit EFI. Again some one smarter that the rest of us was able to modify the bootEFI for 62 bit to thunk calls to 32 bit which is in the OS but was not chosen to have been done by Apple. I was going to make the 2006 into a hack during the winter as a project until Tiamo's bootEFI came along. As you can see this is a 2006/2007 MacPro running Maverick. If I hook up a camera I can do Photo Booth and or Face Time. The DOWN SIDE I chose not to have a separate partition with 10.7 to reload the bootEFI but rather take 30 minutes of my time to remove the SSD drive from the Mac Pro and insert in a dock.

I then re-install manually Tiamo's BootEFI. This has to be done after every OS update; so I will have to do it when.3 comes in a week or two. Another down side is that you cannot use single user mode unless you flash a Radeon video card. Right now the machine has a GT630 Nvidia using the stock Apple drivers and I was surprised that even the HDMI port does work. You can check the above site to roll your own as you are familiar with updating a Windows machine. Now there are some who will worry about the software and flag police but pay no attention to them.

I have built 3 hack and have legally bought ALL the software. My suggestion is to buy either a used or refurbished Mac also check certain forums if there have been any problems. I replaced a G5 iMac for a Nun it was a 2006 model that had a batch of bad LCD screens that Apple extended the warranty to 2008. She was not that tech savvy to realize that when the 1 wide pixels lines showed up she should have check with Apple. When I saw it you could hard use it. I was able to replace the LCD and now she is happy.

Good luck, Lou Cioccio.