Becoming a Hackintosh guy

[porsche4life]

Just ordered a Dell Vostro A90(mini 9) from the outlet with Ubuntu installed. Atom 1600 processor, 16gb SSD 802.11g wifi, 1gb ram, bluetooth, etc...


Free shipping...


Out the door for $237 tax and all...


Going to pick up a copy of snow leopard and have me a MAC on the cheap.

[Embraer]

i run ubuntu on my machine. love it.

[porsche4life]

I am looking for something that will run iMovie

But I will have a few days to play with ubuntu b4 I go buy Snow leopard

[HHI944]

Snow kitty is a good os, very few quirks. Safari has been buggy at times, but apple is good about updating to fix that type stuff.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

I ordered the Mini 10v. Few bucks more and a lot more storage (10x).

[porsche4life]

Dell Vostro A90 Laptop Details | Dell


theres the specs.... Yes the 10v gets you more HD but its a SATA.... I've got SSD which is faster for boot.... I have been planning on going external for all my movies anyways... Plus this isn't my primary laptop...

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Boot time is irrelevant w/ MacOS...I think I reboot my MacBook once a month (if that).

At any rate, I have a large library DVDs, and I've ripped quite a few of them for ease of management. From home it's no problem to use the shared iTunes library via my intranet but on the road I (and my kids) want better selection than 16 (or 32) GB can offer.

[porsche4life]

I am rarely on the road where I would be watching movies honestly... So no problems... I've got all my music on my phone...

[Sapporo Guy]

lolo, waiting for the snow kitty to boot ... dang boot123 loader is not loading.
I hope that you searched a few good sources to get your mobo to work ...

I did get a kernal panic though

[Nathans_Dad]

Running Snow Leopard on my iMac, it seems pretty good. Hard to tell what the differences are with regards to speed though because I upgraded from 1 GB RAM to 4 GB RAM at the same time as I put in Snow Leopard.

This was all started when my HD in the iMac died after 15 months (grrr). I was able to put a new 1 terabyte HD in there without too much trouble, there are several sites that show how to get into the iMac and swap out the HD. The Apple store wanted $400 to install a 250 gb HD!!! I said screw that, the 1 terabyte drive cost me $110 at Best Buy, 40 minutes to install it and get started on the new OS install.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Dell Vostro A90 Laptop Details | Dell


theres the specs.... Yes the 10v gets you more HD but its a SATA.... I've got SSD which is faster for boot.... I have been planning on going external for all my movies anyways... Plus this isn't my primary laptop...

Snow Leopard boots pretty fast.

[equality72521]

My question is what do you use for the Command key on a Hackintosh? Are you able to remap another key?

[legion]

[EarlyPorsche]

I love snow leopard. BUT and a big BUT --

A solid state drive is the way to go if you want speed. My macbook pro runs snow leopard AND I have a 64 gb solid state drive (I hardly need to store anything).

NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will give you the boost in speed like solid state hard drive technology will. Its like having a giant camera card as your hard drive. Then if you want bump up your RAM to about 4GB or so and you are pretty much at the peak of speed.

There is no new Mac available that is as fast as my 2007 Macbook Pro and I only have 2.2GHz Intel Core2 Duo.

[nynor]

hackintosh baby! check out InsanelyMac

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by EarlyPorsche

I love snow leopard. BUT and a big BUT --

A solid state drive is the way to go if you want speed. My macbook pro runs snow leopard AND I have a 64 gb solid state drive (I hardly need to store anything).

NOTHING and I mean NOTHING will give you the boost in speed like solid state hard drive technology will. Its like having a giant camera card as your hard drive. Then if you want bump up your RAM to about 4GB or so and you are pretty much at the peak of speed.

There is no new Mac available that is as fast as my 2007 Macbook Pro and I only have 2.2GHz Intel Core2 Duo.

Solid state drives are good depending on your needs. On my main box my apps alone gobble 32 GB's. Most of them generate huge swap files when working.

Have had a couple of the solid state drives go bad, a serious biotch to try and recover.

[porsche4life]

I ordered a WD 1tb drive today and a case to use for backups and storing my pics/ video on. Been needing one for my current laptop anyways... then I found out last night that I am going to have to wipe another pc to a clean slate so I need something to save some of the stuff on it to...

[nynor]

WD drives suck. i'd never use one with data that i actually wanted to keep. long and painful experience. my .02

[porsche4life]

Dave seemed to think the WD was a fine drive.... I read more good about them than the Seagates...

[Normy]

--Folks--

I have exactly ZERO idea what you folks are talking about!

I recently ditched my Sony Vaio PCG-K35 for a MacBook Pro, 13-inch size. My laptop has to sit in my backpack on the job, and the 11 pounds [including 140 watt brick] that this laptop demanded got on my nerves. And it basically destroyed the muscles that form my back! Finally, an update to the the AVG anti-virus corrupted the vaunted XP, and the monstrous laptop stopped working. I managed to save all my data, and import it to the new MAC.

Fed up with the whole Windows thing, and since it seems like EVERYONE at my company [Fedex] is buying one, [along with about 10 years of urging from my best friend~] your's truly just bought a MAC.

SO far....I can't see how OS is really any better than XP. It has it's stupids, just as XP does. What astounds me is how fast this computer is! My old Sony used to take 5 seconds to open the local newspaper website. This new MAC takes about 1 second for the same thing! Open Google Chrome? I was used to clicking on it and waiting 10 seconds for AVG to decide that it was indeed "safe"...and then Chrome would open. This one opens Chrome instantly. Less than half a second!

This computer works so much better I can't believe it. I will say, that the track-pad is not as good as the Vaio. I could barely touch my Vaio pad and do what I needed to do, but this new MAC needs more force, and it is easy to give too much force and click on a website that you are not interested in, while the websites that you find that you like and just give a "tap" to open...don't open. You have to "pound" the key down to get it to work. And OS has no adjustment for pad sensitivity.

Any help you MAC types can give me would be appreciated!

N!