See following:

• Download Os X Mavericks Installer
• Mac Os X Mavericks Download

Although I am using a new version SMBIOS (Mac Mini 2011) the machine still refuses to let me install it because it is unsupported. Not only that but the PCI config issue comes up and ncpi=0x2000 or 0x3000 does not solve it. It will stop there saying configuring PCI and will stay until it boots to the GUI. Yosemite / Mavericks / Mountain Lion on Unsupported Mac. This page is dedicated to Sfott, this “little” piece of code I did to automate the creation of USB key with the boot.efi from Tiamo’s of MacRumors. This script aims to prepare a USB or disc media for Unsupported 32bit based Macs that are not eligibles for Mavericks or Mountain Lion.

Upgrading to Snow Leopard

You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.

After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mavericks if your computer meets the requirements.

Snow Leopard General Requirements

1. Mac computer with an Intel processor

2. 1GB of memory

3. 5GB of available disk space

4. DVD drive for installation

5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;

fees may apply.

6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and

terms apply.

Download Os X Mavericks Installer

Upgrading to Mavericks

You can upgrade to Mavericks from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mavericks can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for FREE.

Upgrading to Mavericks

To upgrade to Mavericks you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Download Mavericks from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mavericks is free. The file is quite large, over 5 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.

Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mavericks

1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later

2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 5,1 or later

3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later

4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 2,1 or later

5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later

6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later

7. Xserve (Early 2009) - Model Identifier 3,1 or later

To find the model identifier open System Profiler in the Utilities folder. It's displayed in the panel on the right.

Are my applications compatible?

See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps.

Mac Os X Mavericks Download

Upgrading to Lion

If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mavericks, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.

You can purchase Lion at the Online Apple Store. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.

Lion System Requirements

1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,

or Xeon processor

2. 2GB of memory

3. OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)

4. 7GB of available space

5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.

Sep 27, 2014 3:22 PM

I can't believe Mac OS X Hints has stooped so low as to require readers to answer a marketing poll before viewing an article.
No wonder almost no one contributes to this site anymore.

Use adblockers & anti tracking extensions to skip this nonsence.
I know the site loses out if we block adverts, however I refuse to participate in lame surveys to see content.
Rethink the purpose of your site - ad revenue or useful Mac hints?
Do you have readers or 'streams of income'?
I guess we should expect nothing better from Macworld, I stopped reading your Macworld articles when you started autoplaying video adverts. Spamming MacKeeper adverts over your site helps Mac users install crapware.

Ads? Auto-playing videos? Mandatory Survey's? Evil Tracking Cookies? What is this junk of which you speak?
Oh wait, I installed the plugin from ghostery.com and POOF, no more garbage. I also installed a FlashBlocker so no more auto-playing video ads either.
I would not mind white-listing Macworld but seriously, the advertisements are horrible... I'll suspend the blocks now and then for awhile until I am reminded why enabled them in the first place.

List of stuff blocked by Ghostery on an article on Macworld.com which is far worse than Hints.
Adify
BlueKai
Brightcove
Casale Media
Centro
ChartBeat
Demand base
Doto mi
DoubleClick
DoubleClick Spotlight
Eloqua
eXelate
Facebook Connect
Facebook Social Plugins
Gigya Socialize
Google Adsense
Google Analytics
Google+ Platform
Integral Ad Science
Korrelate
Krux Digrtal
Linkedln Widgets
Lota me
Matomy Market
Media Optimizer (Adobe)
Moat
NetRatings SrteCensus
Omniture (Adobe Analytics)
OpenX
Outbrarn
Pinterest
PubMatic
PulsePoint
Ouantcast
RadiumOne
Reddit
Research Now
ScoreCard Research Beacon
SimpleReach
Simpli fi
Sizmek
TradeDesk
TRUSTe Notice
Twitter Badge
Twitter Button
T ypekit by Adobe
ValueClick Mediaplex
Viglink

This is handy... you're basically making a filesystem within a filesystem. If you google around a bit, there's way of making that sparse bundle file dynamic in size and encrypted too. I do this on an external drive. The entire drive is HFS, but within I have a dynamically expanding and encrypted sparse bundle on it. Works out pretty well as I don't have to 'reserve' a certain amount of the space of the source drive... allows me to use the rest of the drive as I see fit. In the old days, I had a 1Tb drive setup like this with 500Gb for general storage and 500Gb as my encrypted sparse image file. But the sparse image was only 200Gb full while the other 500Gb partition was almost full. That's when I redid it to have the sparse bundle grow dynamically. The basic idea is laid out here: http://www.cnet.com/news/how-to-set-up-a-dynamically-resizing-disk-image I think this would work well for your idea as well. Just bear in mind that not all filesystems will support this. exFat will. So will HFS. NTFS will work too if you pay for the options to get write support for NTFS in OS X. But regular FAT won't due to max length for filenames, etc. Just be aware of the limitations of the underlying unsupported filesystem.

Another limitation of FAT32 that people may want to take into consideration if they want to use the hint is this:
While under some circumstances a FAT32 volume can be up to 2 TB (IIRC), a Disk Image created on it is limited to at most ~ 500 GB.
The reason is this: Files in FAT32 can be at most 4GB, so the only way to get a Disk Image greater than that is to make is a Sparse Bundle. BUT:
Sparse Bundles store the contents in 'bands', that is, files that are at most 8 MB (that's 8 x 1024^2 bytes). So far, so good. But all the bands are saved in the same subdirectory, and AFAIK FAT32 can hold at most 65,535 files in a single directory.
65,535 files * 8 MB per file = 512 GB (where 1 GB = 1024^3 bytes). So your internal filesystem can hold less than that at most.

Thanks for the info and link, Supp0rtLinux. The CNET article was helpful. As I read it, I wondered about the differences between sparse disk image and sparse bundle disk image, so did a search and came across a really good article by Mike Bombich (of Carbon Copy Cloner) that describes the differences between the two types.
Better yet, Mike provides an applet that will compress sparse bundle disk images. Check it out here: http://help.bombich.com/kb/dmg-and-remote/backing-up-to-a-disk-image

Does it work well though? Is it safe? :P

'I guess we should expect nothing better from Macworld, I stopped reading your Macworld articles when you started autoplaying video adverts. Spamming MacKeeper adverts over your site helps Mac users install crapware.'
Macworld explained elsewhere that auto play was due to some overzealous marketing types (and it's gone). I for one give them the space they need to make the various sites work- as in figuring out how to make them pay. Nothing wrong with that. When they do some dumb stuff, as in the aforementioned 'survey', just cut them a new one- but realize that the content remains pretty good over the sites they manage. The net is still a very new place.
I'd like to see more here, too, but I check it everyday and learn something fairly often.

I'm afraid the autoplaying adverts isn't gone, check this in Safari 5.1 on OS X…
http://www.macworld.com/article/2138470/how-to-get-started-in-podcasting-sharing-the-results.html
The sidebar has an autoplaying video advert with sound. The sidebar item is titled 'How to videos' which is Macworld.com's own content - so much for blaming the 'other marketing types'.
Generally Macworld content is good, but hunting down which tab is playing this junk makes me want to kill all adverts - everyone loses.

The hint came from this older blog post Configuring OS X Mountain Lion Time Machine to Work With CIFS (SMB) Share: http://rajiv.sg/blog/2012/11/19/configuring-os-x-mountain-lion-time-machine-to-work-with-cifs-smb-share/