Not up to the messier parts of building a Hackintosh? EFiX is a USB dongle that promises to take care of all of that for you, automagically on any PC. Pop it into the port and you can install OS X straight from the DVD “without having to worry about patches, replacing files and anything like that.” Update: There’s a video demo of this black magic here.
If you’re thinking it sounds too good to be true and that the site looks a little scuammy, you should know that it took a lot of time to craft this voodoo stick and required the developers to thwart “various problems, including sabotage.” After six months of testing, it’s due on June 23. Our advice? Let someone else be the guinea pig. Hey guinea pigs, if you buy this, let us know how it goes! [EFiX via Insanely Mac via Hack a Day]
sfnox
Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:15 PMThis is a very neat idea. I need feedback as to whether it works on Acer laptops. Specifically the Aspire 9425wsmi model A.K.A. Aspire 9420. Also does it work with all versions of OSX? If it works with Mac OS X Leopard – Snow Leopard. I will be buying it, installing it, drooling over it and recommending the OS to all of my friends. So they can install it on their PC’s and Notebooks. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t mind a few extra sales of their new Operating System :)
sfnox
Monday, June 16, 2008 at 6:19 PMDamn it!!! I just found out that the USB stick needs to be plugged in at all times. That really sucks!!! I hope a version comes out where you don’t need to do that. I don’t want some USB dongle sucking my battery power and looking crappy, hanging off of my laptop.