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Toronto Update: THR Video Lounge Features Kristen Stewart, Joss Whedon, Christina Hendricks, Kristen Wiig and More

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September 10, 2012


LATEST FESTIVAL NEWS

A Candid Conversation with Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund
The stars of "On the Road" discuss their starts in Hollywood, love of Jack Kerouac's classic novel, thoughts on college, and the hardships of living in the public eye.

Christina Hendricks Talks About 'Feeling Naked' During 'Ginger & Rosa' Shoot
The actress and her co-stars Alessandra Nivola and Alice Englert sat down with THR to explain director-writer Sally Potter's unique directing style.

Kristen Wiig and Christopher Fitzgerald Share a Loopy Moment on the Set of 'Imogene'
The co-stars chat about the lighter side of shooting the Shari Springer Berman-directed comedy.

Saoirse Ronan Talks 'Magical,' 'Gory,' 'Twisted' 'Byzantium'
The actress is the latest to join Hollywood’s vampire craze in Neil Jordan’s deadly thriller. 

'Seven Psychopaths' Star Colin Farrell on the Differences in Acting for Theater, Film
Director Martin McDonagh also reveals to THR the challenges in moving from one medium to the other

Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini 'Imogene' Canon Spotlights Cinematography
The directors of 'Imogene' on shooting her first digital movie and what it was like jumping from film to digital.

Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Clark Gregg ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Canon Spotlights Cinematography
Actors Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg join director Joss Whedon to discuss their new film ‘Much Ado About Nothing’.

Matthew Cooke, Bert Marcus 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs' 
Director Matthew Cooke reveals how he came up with the idea for his documentary 'How to Make Money Selling Drugs'. Matthew and producer Bert Marcus also let us know how they were able to get celebrities Woody Harrelson, Susan Sarandon and 50 Cent to be part of their film.

Anand Gandhi ‘Ship of Theseus’ Canon Spotlights Cinematography
Writer/director/producer Anand Ganhi stops by our Canon video lounge to discuss his new movie which explores and questions identity and change.

Sally Potter, Elle Fanning ‘Ginger & Rosa’ TIFF 2012
Director Sally Potter and Elle Fanning discuss the special relationship that they have been able to develop on the set of their film ‘Ginger & Rosa’.

LATEST FESTIVAL REVIEWS
A Late Quartet: Toronto Review
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener star as members of a renown New York string quartet experiencing a major malfunction.

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Toronto Update: Roadside Nabs Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell'; Susanne Bier on 'Love Is All You Need'; THR Hosts Party at Thompson Hotel; 'Thanks for Sharing' Film Review

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Roadside Attractions Nabs Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell'
The film also is acquired by Artificial Eye for the United Kingdom, Palace Films for Australia and Gutek Film for Poland.

Romance Risky Move for Susanne Bier in 'Love Is All You Need'
"I was kind of terrified to let this movie out. Because I thought: some people are going to kill me for this," the Oscar-winning director says of her rom-com starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm.

VIDEO: THR Hosts Toronto Film Festival Cocktail Party For Top Industry Players At The Thompson Hotel
Stacey Snider, Tom Bernard, Nancy Utley and other movers-and-shakers gathered on the rooftop to celebrate TIFF.

EXCLUSIVE: Cynthia Nixon to Play Poet Emily Dickinson
British director Terence Davies wrote the screenplay and will direct the biopic "A Quiet Passion."

Celebrity Chefs Rate TIFF's Star-Driven Party Scene
Luma's Michael Bonacini and Mistura's Massimo Capra discuss how the city's dining destinations have embraced and served Hollywood royalty over the years.

Kristen Stewart Says She and Robert Pattinson are 'Going to be Fine' at 'Twilight' Premiere
The 22-year-old actress has been avoiding the spotlight since the cheating scandal, but she made her first public appearance in Toronto this weekend for "On the Road," fielding questions about her "Twilight" co-star and love of three years.

'The Physician' Attracts Market Buzz
The period drama, starring Ben Kingsley and Stellan Skarsgard, has been nearly 25 years in the making.

Canadian Film Panel Spotlights U.S. Box Office Traction
Filmmakers David Cronenberg and Sarah Polley and companies like Lionsgate and Imax have made Canada a global player. Now it needs Americans to know they're viewing Canadian films.

Films Casting Untested Child Actors Seize Festival Spotlight from Hollywood
Young newbies cast in lead roles are stealing the show at TIFF and winning critical attention for "Satellite Boy," "Inch'Allah" and "When I Saw You."

Steve Carell, Toni Collette's 'Way, Way Back' Shopped to Foreign Buyers
The ensemble film, whose script appeared on the 2010 Black List, also stars Sam Rockwell, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Maya Rudolph, Amanda Peet, Rob Corddry, Zoe Levin and Liam James.

'Cloud Atlas' Director Lana Wachowski on Making a 'Monobrow' Film
The Matrix director said highbrow ideas and lowbrow entertainment tropes merged to turn David Mitchell's best-selling novel into the Halle Berry and Tom Hanks-starrer.

LATEST FESTIVAL REVIEWS

Thanks for Sharing: Toronto Review
Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Pink also star in Oscar-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg's directing debut.

Everyday: Toronto Review
Shirley Henderson does her best to hold everything together in a story about a family waiting for the husband/father to be released from prison.

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang: Toronto Review
This second English-language project from Cannes Golden Palm winner Laurent Cantet adapts Joyce Carol Oates’ bestselling novel.

Greetings from Tim Buckley: Toronto Review
Penn Badgley and Ben Rosenfield play music legends Jeff and Tim Buckley in a dual biopic directed by Dan Algrant.

Hannah Arendt: Toronto Review
German star Barbara Sukowa is magnetic as the great writer and philosoper Hannah Arendt in Margarethe Von Trotta's biopic.


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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your Hackintosh

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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your Hackintosh

By Adam Dachis

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your HackintoshYou didn't want to settle for Apple's underpowered hardware, so you built yourself a hackintosh. A few years later it's feeling slow and you want to upgrade. Because you created the machine yourself, you don't need to shell out tons of cash for a new one. You can upgrade for a fraction of the price of your original build. But upgrading your hackintosh involves a bit of work and some new challenges—unless you take the right approach.

When I upgraded my hackintosh for the first time, I learned there's a lot more to the process than a simple hardware swap—it's almost as much work as building a new hackintosh if you don't properly prepare your system in advance. In this post we'll look at the best upgrade options at your disposal right now, how to prepare your system for the swap, and preemptive measures to take so you're ready for the most common issues. We'll also keep it up to date as great, new hackintosh hardware is released so you can learn about the best hardware to buy at the moment.

Current Version: Intel Ivy Bridge (September, 2012)

Step One: Choose Your Upgrade Hardware

When you upgrade a hackintosh, the only part that warrants a guide like this is your motherboard. The motherboard is the part of your hackintosh that requires the most effort on your behalf as OS X generally has to be forced into submission in order to work with it. Thanks to some of the latest Gigabyte motherboards, however, very little work is now necessary. In his 2012 buyer's guide, tonymacx86 (the king of hackintoshes) revealed six motherboards that require nothing more than an audio driver to fully function. That means, audio excepted, the motherboards will work out of the box. This will make your job much easier. Here are your best options (as of September, 2012):

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your Hackintosh

  • Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H ($90) - Basic, budget ATX motherboard. Nothing terribly special here.
  • Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H ($100) - Almost identical to the above, but uses a different audio codec and offers some GPU-related features that won't benefit you if you're running OS X.
  • Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3P ($92) - MicroATX motherboard with similar features to the above options, but also includes optical audio and one DisplayPort.
  • Gigabyte GA-Q77M-D2H ($132) - Another MicroATX board similar to the above, but it offers additional features like a built-in RAID controller.
  • Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H ($182) - This is the motherboard I chose, as it comes with plenty of USB 3.0 ports (including a free frontside attachment to add two more!), optical audio, and a DisplayPort connector for the onboard graphics in the event I ever want to purchase a newer Apple display.
  • Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH ($270) - High-end motherboard with Thunderbolt ports, Bluetooth 4.0, and Wi-Fi!

These motherboards support the Intel socket 1155 chipset, which means most of the new Ivy Bridge processors will work. At the time of this writing, there are no Macs using Intel socket 2011 CPUs so they will not work properly. You can find more information about build options on tonymacx86's buyer's guide.

You may also want to upgrade other hardware, such as your graphic's card, hard drive, RAM, or SSD. So long as you pick a OS X-supported graphics card, you won't have to worry about compatibility issues with other components. There are exceptions (e.g. various types of expansion cards), but in general the motherboard is the only component you need to worry about.

Step Two: Prepare OS X

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your HackintoshBecause this is an upgrade, OS X is already on your boot drive. The problem is, you've installed various kexts (short for "kernel extensions") and, most likely, a DSDT file so OS X understands how to communicate with your hardware. More than likely, your new motherboard will not be compatible with any of the work you've already done. You'll need to wipe out everything you installed already, but first you should clone your disk in case of a problem.

Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper are both great candidates for the job, but you can use any cloning software you want. The important thing is to make a bootable clone of your disk, and the two recommend apps will be able to tell you if your copy will be bootable or not. If you're using another app that isn't quite as informative, there are three important things to remember when cloning:

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your Hackintosh

  1. Ensure your clone drive uses a GUID partition table (you can choose this when partitioning any disk in OS X's included Disk Utility software).
  2. Ensure your clone drive is formatted as HFS+ Journaled.
  3. Make an exact copy of your boot disk—no exceptions.

An internal hard disk or SSD, or an external USB drive of any kind (so long as it's large enough to hold the data on your boot disk) is suitable for the task, and if you follow the rules above everything should work just fine. Hopefully you won't have to use the backup drive, but in the event something goes terribly wrong you'll want to have it available.

Another option is adding a separate partition to an existing drive in your computer. This can be the boot drive if you have lots of free space open, or another internal drive you're using for other purposes. This way you do not have to dedicate a single drive for the sole purpose of backing up your system.

Once your clone is ready, start wiping out your hackintosh files. Which files need to be deleted will depend on what you installed when you initially built your hackintosh, but here's what most people will have to remove:

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your Hackintosh

  1. A folder called Extra on your boot drive (/Extra).
  2. Any kexts installed in /System/Extensions/.
  3. Any DSDT.aml files on your desktop.

Once you remove those files and folders you will not be able to boot normally anymore, so be sure you have a copy of UniBeast on a USB flash drive. You should have this already from building your hackintosh in the first place, but if not you can get it from tonymacx86 and consult these instructions if you need help using it.

Finally, download a copy of Multibeast (which you can also get from tonymacx86) so you can use it after your upgrade is complete.

Step Three: Install Your New Hardware

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your HackintoshInstalling a new motherboard means taking out virtually everything you've already installed in your case. On the plus side, the power supply, some of the fans, and some cable management work you've done can stay in place. Before you remove your computer's innards, however, take plenty of photos so you can consult them if a problem occurs and you need to put your old hardware back together again. Continue to take photos as you disassemble as well to keep track of the process.

With your motherboard removed, you'll need to put your computer back together again with new hardware. If you need any help, consult our computer building guide. Once your hardware is ready to go, it's time to boot into OS X and make it all work properly.

Step Four: Configure OS X for Your New Hardware

The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Upgrading Your HackintoshBooting up with your new hardware will involve the same steps you'd follow if you were building a hackintosh for the first time. That means you'll want to follow our always up-to-date guide for instructions for configuring your BIOS and booting up using your UniBeast USB flash drive, and consult the tonymacx86 forums for specific information about which MultiBeast settings to use with your hardware. If you chose one of the recommended Gigabyte motherboards in step one, just follow these instructions:

  1. Open MultiBeast and click throw the various screens until you get to your install options.
  2. Tick the box next to "UserDSDT or DSDT-Free Installation."
  3. Go into the Drivers & Bootloaders → Drivers → Audio → Realtek ALC8xx → Without DSDT section. From there, choose the audio codec used by your motherboard. (If you're not sure, you can find it on the Amazon product page.) Check the box beside the correct codec. If given an option between Legacy and Current, choose Current.
  4. Click Continue and go ahead with the installation.
  5. Restart your computer and your hackintosh should boot up all by itself.

That's all there is to it! Upgrades are straightforward most of the time, but mistakes can occur and so it's important to prepare for the worst. If you do run into the problem, the precautions you took by following this guide will provide you with a means of troubleshooting or, at the very least, a fallback plan. In the event of a serious problem, consult our hackintosh troubleshooting guide for some common strategies and request assistance on the tonymacx86 forums. Your upgrade process should go off without a hitch, but if not you'll be prepared.

Happy hackintoshing, and enjoy your new hardware!

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