Tech Notes: DG33TL and GTX260 Running Lion 10.7.4

Reading Time: 2 minutes I love it.  My old Intel DG33TL and NVIDIA GTX260 work perfectly with OS X Lion just about out of the box.  The basic process: 1.  Reset the BIOS to default settings.  Make sure HPET is turned ON. 2.  Create a UniBeast Lion boot/install USB flash drive courtesy tonymacx86.com’s process, and install Lion.  You will […]

Tech Notes: VirtualBox and Aero 3D Acceleration

Reading Time: < 1 minute There were a couple of tricks to getting Aero 3D working in my Virtualbox VM: First, I had to make sure the Aero theme was disabled in Windows before enabling 3D graphics in the virtual machine settings.  Here’s how: After switching to the Windows Basic theme, shut down.  Then, enabled 3D in the VM settings.  Started back […]

Mac OS X on an Acer Extensa 5230E

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Acer Extensa 5230E makes a decent OS X Lion platform — especially with a few upgrades.  This is apparently not a common OSX86 platform, but I’ve confirmed that it does in fact make a decent machine for running Mac OS X Lion.  It was a tricky process, and if you’re not tech-savvy, it might be more […]