Converting a Sony Vaio VGN-N31S to the Mac way of life

[MeanAndy]

Hi all,

Wasn't sure where this would be suited, had a look through the forums and found nothing useful, so apologies if it's in the wrong place.

I have an old Sony Vaio VGN-N31S that I would like to install either Tiger or Snow Leopard on. It currently has W7 on it and just about manages. I would just rather have a Mac OS so to better integrate with my iMac.

I was just wondering if anyone had heard of or had done this before? I am fairly sure that it will take both Mac OS's but I am just not sure of where to get the drivers or whether there is a special way to go about the install rather than just popping in the install DVD.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Andy

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Have you tried the following Hackintosh specific fora and websites yet, since what you want to do is more specific than this forum can provide help for?

• tonymacx86 Blog - very good guides and quite good message board
• InsanelyMac Forum
• InsanelyMac Hardware Database
• Hackintosh.com
• OSx86 Project

 

[MeanAndy]

Thanks for the quick reply.

And thanks for those links, had't heard of the OSx86 one before. Will take a look and if I have any progress I'll post back here for others.

Cheer,

Andy

P.s. - Love your sig

 

[simsaladimbamba]

P.s. - Love your sig

Hmm, stop kissassing or what ever it is called. Or not sure if serious. Or just good luck with finding a solution, I guess it will not be that easy as building a Hackintosh yourself. Or thanks, you are the first.

 

[r0k]

Hmm, stop kissassing or what ever it is called. Or not sure if serious. Or just good luck with finding a solution, I guess it will not be that easy as building a Hackintosh yourself. Or thanks, you are the first.

OpenDNS is giving me a phising warning on the fifth (monash...spidap) link in your sig. It's probably some sort of false alarm but the link doesn't work for me unless I override the warning...

 

[simsaladimbamba]

OpenDNS is giving me a phising warning on the fifth (monash...spidap) link in your sig. It's probably some sort of false alarm but the link doesn't work for me unless I override the warning...

Hmm, I do not use OpenDNA, ahem, OpenDNS, and I just tested that side in Safari and Opera and I did not get any warning (Safari and its Google warnings for example). Firefox however does not even load the page and times out after a while.