iPhone development on a Thinkpad

[lophiomys]

Hi,

Did anyone do some iPhone development on a Thinkpad with OSX?

I wonder if all the neccessary communication from and to the iPhone
would also work from an OSX 10.6 Snow Leopoard installed on a
Thinkpad? I'd buy any model with Flexview screen just for this purpose
if I'd only know that it would work flawlessly. Installation procedures
for OSX 10.6 on a Thinkpad seem to be quite time consuming. So I'm a bit weary...

Any experiences?

Cheers,
/L

[Synthetickiller]

I don't know, BUT what is required for that? I have an x200 being shipped to me within the next 2 weeks and I plan on putting OSX on it.

Give me some info on what I'd need (if it's free) and I'll see. I own an iPhone, so I could at least test it.

Which thinkpad do you have? Could you list the specs? Hackintosh can be tricky to get to work with intel GMA x4500 and the intel 5100/5300 wifi. I only know of the x4500 fix so far, wifi, I have yet to see (doesn't mean there isn't a working driver now).

If you have nearly the same specs, I'll see what I can do.

[lophiomys]

Thanks for your friendly offer.
I have several T42p 15" UXGA with ATI Mobility FireGL T2 128MB.
But if it simplifys things, I'd also buy a T60p 2623DDU or something very similar.

/L

[ronin]

I've did it it's possible. See my post here
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=82311

I've snow leopard running with xcode and managed to do some iPhone
development on the go with it. I would not recommend it as a main
dev machine though, as it feels pretty slow and resolution is too low
compared to a proper mac or desktop hackintosh.

I still have problems getting the sleep function to work though
I ve to turn off all power management because if the computer goes
to sleep it does not wakeup properly :-/

[Silencer]

Developing for over a year now on T60p with 10.5.6. Too lazy to upgrade it, so have to patch Xcode installer to install it on older OSX versions (usually it requires the latest one).

[crashnburn]

Developing for over a year now on T60p with 10.5.6. Too lazy to upgrade it, so have to patch Xcode installer to install it on older OSX versions (usually it requires the latest one).

Nice

[gabriel.doroftei]

I was able to do iphone/cocoa development on OSX 10.5.6 (iPC) (t60 1951-feg).
But I'm having problems with uploading signature (CSR) to apple site (no errors). Anyone with similar issue?

@Silencer can you give me some small guide on your new OSX 10.6.2? (what guide you used, what hacked/legal , etc) . Many thanks
Update: found your post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=211705

[Silencer]

Update: found your post http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index. ... pic=211705

There's also one right here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=85344

[gabriel.doroftei]

Happy to have my T60 with OSX 10.6 (no sound, no wifi)!

@thank you Silencer for your DSDT patches (only few worked, need to study more on this)