After doing some research, the latest snow leopard update does have support for sandybridge processors and the intel HD graphics 3000 chips.
There are several methods of installing snow leopard alongside windows 7, but I'm not sure if despite the fact that I am using the retail dvd, whether I will be able to get sound during the snow leopard install. The OSX86 ModCD 0.3.1 looks to be my only option of install snow leopard as I don't want to have to reformat my hard drive to convert my partition table to use the GPT scheme. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:11 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player it will run on that machine. jestures won't though. ash On 07/04/2011 08:44, Dickson Tan wrote: > Hi > > Hmm seems that an accessible install of snow leopard under VMWare > isn't a viable way for me to try out snow leopard and voice over. I'll > give virtualbox a try and hope that I get better results. > > I would only try a duel-boot install of snow leopard using something > like IHazard (which includes voice over) as a last resort; I haven't > found out either way whether Snow Leopard would install on an Acer > Aspire 4750G. I'm not sure how well snow leopard would react to the > fact that I'm using a core > I7 quad-core sandybridge processor, which includes an integrated intel > HD Graphics 3000 chip. I wouldn't expect things like gestures to work > even if I successfully get mac installed. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:40 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: accessible install of snow leopard in VMWare Player > > This is against apples eula, even *if* you have purchased snow leopard. > To get the dvd to boot, you'll first have to boot the vm using > boot132, wait for some text to appear on the screen, eject the disk, > insert snowy, complete the install potentially without voice over and > then get audio plus some other things working post install. Its not > something you'll be able to do on your own. > > It would probably be easier (But still not accessible) if you were to > set up a duelboot depending on what computer you have at the moment. > > On 06/04/2011, Dickson Tan<dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello All >> >> >> >> I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail >> version of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard under >> a vm in windows. I wanted to see if snow leopard was worth the >> investment of getting a macbook. >> >> >> >> There are instructions on the net on how to install snow leopard into >> a vm in VMWare Player and getting it to boot, but when I put the snow >> leopard dvd into my laptop's dvd drive and try to launch voice-over >> during the snow leopard install, I don't hear any sound. Either >> voice-over doesn't start (which shouldn't be happening since I have a >> snow leopard retail dvd) or there is problem with sound during >> boottime in > the vm. >> >> >> Has anyone ever encountered such a problem before? >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Dickson >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
