hackintosh on pc

I tried many ways to make hackintosh on my PCs. I will not talk about install process here as there are tons of guides online. I just wanna discuss what I can reach.

1. Desktop PC. This is the easiest part I have. I use iATKOS L2. Other source may also work. Everything is fine. Install, boot, config, running. Drivers are easy to find online as "http://tonymacx86.com/". Everything works. Graphics, network, usb. Sleep may not working, but I do not care as it is a desktop.

2. Laptop with nvidia optimus. This gives me most headaches. It's a dell xps l401x with intel HD + nvidia 420m. Even on windows, the driver the outdated. Nvidia refuse to write driver for it, and the lasted driver from dell is around 2010, which support only CUDA 3.1. I installed nvidia 296.10 anyway.It seems to works. Later drivers make my win7 unbootable. Linux got stable support by bumblebee around a year ago. Let's get back to our topic. No doubt, it will not go smoothly for hackintosh. I can install iATKOS, boot, and run mac. There is no driver for wireless. I got another usb wireless adapter. It works partially. But, I can never got Graphics to work. It won't boot by default. I have to delete all stock intel drivers from the system. And then install some patched drivers. So I can boot with GraphicsEnabler=Yes. There should be hardware acceleration. But resolution is stuck at 1024x768. Nvidia is also running for nth but consuming power. Some other model can disable nvidia in bois, but no luck with my dell. This is what I have now. 1024x768 for ever with nvidia running. I believe laptops with single video card will have less problems. But for my dell, I don't think it is usable right now.

3. VMs. I use virtualbox and vmware. virtualbox is ready for mac. Install following regular guide. Everything works as it is. The main problem is that virtual graphics can only recognize 3m or 4m vram. The overall performance is acceptable, with a little lag. vmware has some booting problems. I convert my virtualbox disk to vmware format with patched AppleSMC.kext. Then vmware version boots under workstation 8.0.4. By default, vmware's perform is much worse. However there is a mac graphics driver, SVGA II. With this driver, my vmware mac is more smoother. I will stay with vmware at this time.

In conclusion, With regular video card, no optimus, I will install mac directly on hardware. Otherwise, I will use vmware with SVGA II driver.