Macintosh Vs Hackintosh

4Rensics · 2011-01-18T22:10:57Z

Hi,OK, so this is a question I have been asking around the office, but we can't quite figure out ourselves, so said I would ask on here where people can get their nerd on!So, basically, for those that may or may not be aware, Guidance have finally got their Mac / Linux course ready to go and since I still have some months left on my passport, said I would sign up… however, there is a prerequisite that people attending the course must bring their own Intel based MacBook… unfortunately we only have an old G4 PowerBook in the office, and nobody else in here has their own personal Intel based one. So… I was thinking, what if I put OSX on my own Dell XPS machine.If I formatted the drive, put HFS and full (legal!) version of OSX on it, then, "technically" would it not be a full Intel based install of OSX?I have an M1330 XPS and I did some hackintosh research and apparently it installs near perfect on it, except for some issues with the WiFi drivers (which may or may not be fixed, since it was an old forum post)Whats peoples thoughts on this? Would it pass for a mac machine (forensically) or would there be many a pitfall. I don't know why the course isn't just working on images???Thanks.