Chameleon SSD Optimizer for Hackintosh

Increase Your SSD Life and Performance !

Chameleon is an optimization tool for Solid State Drive on Mac OS X system. It can enable TRIM on non Apple-branded disks. Now you can also increase durability reducing I|O writing cycles, set hibernate mode and save space disabling sleep image.

Added New Features

Chameleon is able to read sata system profiler info and you can easily check trim status, disk speed or properties. S.M.A.R.t. status is now supported, it's as mac shows it. Moreover you can hence control the temperature, the firmware version and more. Now you can disable the local Time Machine, the Sudden Motion Sensor or noatime set for the system, you can change sleep mode and gain space disabling the sleep image. MOUNTAIN LION 10.8.4 support has been added too!

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Installing 2 Hard Drives in MacBook

Installing 2 Hard Drives in MacBook , in this case a SSD and a SATA drive removing the CD/DVD Optical Drive . The boot manager you see to select OS is rEFIt

How to Install Chameleon 2.0 RC1 to USB

Create USB Chameleon 2 Boot stick
Format your usb in GUID Mac Journaled —– via Utilities–>Disk Utility

Triple Boot Laptop Mac OSX, Windows 7 and Linux Mint

How was this done ?

First need to create 2 partions , one in FAT (to be detected by OSX)

Install OSX Leopard , and Chameleon as boot Loader

After, install Windows 7 , and use EasyBCD to add OSX to the boot.

Then install Linux Mint from Windows using MINT4WIN (find it inside Mind CD/ISO)

You Will have a Triple Boot Machine ! Enjoy

Laptop Used : Acer Aspire 5634 Wlmi 120GB HD – 2G Ram

How To Clone your OS X Lion Hackintosh

How To Clone your OS X Lion Hackintosh to a External HDD , and boot from it, very usefull to do all the tests without damage your primary install .

The image was created before and I keep it as a backup.
In order to create your image , just select your install and copy to disk image (select desired name) .

We are cloning an image from my primary install to a external HDD, after SupperDuper we need to make it bootable with Chameleon bootloader .

Now let’s boot from USB External HDD

Hackintosh Lion OS X on SSD

Running iAtkos L2

SSD from Dealextreme
KINGSPEC 2.5″ 16GB SATA II SSD/Solid State Drive



- Brand: KingSpec
- Color: White
- Provides high reliability and high performance
- Interface: SATA II
- Memory type: MLC-NAND Flash
- Capacity: 16GB
- Voltage: 5V +/- 5%
- Power: 2.0W/0.5W (operating/non-operating)
- Temperature: 0′C to 70′C / -40′C~85′C (operating/non-operating)
- Shock: 3000GM
- Vibration: 20G
- Sequential read: 110Mbps, 120Mbps, 155Mbps, 172Mbps, 134Mbps
- Sequential write: 37Mbps, 58Mbps, 89Mbps, 94Mbps, 97Mbps, 99Mbps

Price: $37.70

How to Install Chameleon 2.0 RC1 to USB

Create USB Chameleon 2 Boot stick
Format your usb in GUID Mac Journaled —– via Utilities–>Disk Utility

Chameleon Boot Loader for Lion 2.1

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How to Dual boot Windows 7 and OS X Lion with EasyBCD

This is how I did it.

1st create 2 partitions
2nd instal Lion OSX (+ Chameleon)
3rd install Win 7
4th See the video how to edit EASYbcd

Enjoy Dual Boot —-> Choose your poison .