Comments on: HACKINTOSH

By: Rich Seymour

Rich Seymour — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:22:12 +0000

Funny, I just googled Ableton Hackintosh and this came up. Big fan since the subtonic days. So glad you have a show on wfmu, etc. etc.

heaping praise.

very cool indeed. Keep rocking. I may put together a system… just realizing what all the ableton fuss was about.

Nice show with Lucky Dragons.

best
-rich

By: John R

John R — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:24:53 +0000

I figured it out.

In Windows XP, right-click on the desktop and click on Properties > Settings > Monitor. Untick the box that says “Hide modes that this monitor cannot display”. Now you can change the resolution to as high as 1600 X 1200 or something – but you should only change it to 1024 X 768.

Scratch Live fits horizontally on the screen. But the rub is that it dips below the bottom of the screen. The good news is that it only takes a little getting used to: You just continue moving the mouse to below the bottom of the screen and everything will smoothly scroll down so you can access the bottom part of the program (or the taskbar when the program is closed or minimized).

I haven’t used it in the club yet, but at home it seems to be working great. I have the netbook plugged in, in “Performance” power mode, and 2 GB of RAM. It’s pretty feaking cool to think of having this tiny machine running a whole set!

By: John R

John R — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:00:31 +0000

UPDATE : Scratch Live is not liking the 1024 X 600 max. res.
It’s telling me that the min. is 1024 X 700, but I’ve read that other folks have used the S10 with Serato. Any suggestions?

I googled “Lenovo S10 Serato” and my above post was, like, the 5th result – not a reassuring sign HA!

By: John R.

John R. — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:59:55 +0000

I just ordered a Lenovo S10 netbook. I’m going to try Serato on it as soon as I upgrade to 2GB RAM. But, yeah, I might have to get a new eyeglass prescription to read the screen! I’ll post here to let everyone know how it goes….

By: jace

jace — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:39:36 +0000

so far so good… long live the nerds and their cheap-ass OS X Frankensteins!

i think the netbooks are the most well documented hackintoshes out there, but the flip side is less processing power and low screen resolution — which is a known problem for Serato (after a fix, you can still only see the 3/4 of the screen).

look about on the various forums for Ableton and MSI Wind, Dell Mini9 etc. folks often talk about using hackintosh netbooks. as I understand, Ableton runs fine as long as its not processor-intensive.

soon i reckon netbooks w/ duo-core processors (& maybe all flash HDs) will be cheap as well, which would be amazing for gigging and such

By: yarseo

yarseo — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:16:36 +0000

rad man, i would love to hear if it runs smoothly. i have been considering building a netbook hackintosh for my live setup with ableton live since i mainly use it to route midi and such. love the blog btw.

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:28:37 +0000

nerd swag on 1000, glowing neon green and shooting off smartness sparks.

By: moderaw

moderaw — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:53:32 +0000

whoa. that’s impressive. your nerd cred is very very high right now.

i have never done this, but this looks like a good guide as well
http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

By: jace

jace — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:05:06 +0000

desktop. & yeah, cool mac apps welcome

By: John R.

John R. — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:10:22 +0000

So, it’s a desktop or notebook?