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10-29-2009, 01:08 PM #1Registered User
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Hackintosh a Dell Mini
Anyone done this before? For $300 seems like it might be worth a try.
http://gizmodo.com/5389166/how-to-ha...eopard-netbook
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10-29-2009, 01:24 PM #2
Sounds good. Do it and post up...
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10-29-2009, 01:35 PM #3pura vida
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tempting. the GF needs a new laptop.
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10-29-2009, 01:42 PM #4
I like it.
May have to give that a shot.
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10-29-2009, 01:46 PM #5
That looks like a damn good solution for a netbook. I still love my MacBook Air, but it doesn't really do Photoshop/Lightroom very well, and for like 20% of the cost that Dell/OSX solution seems to be a winner.
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10-29-2009, 02:42 PM #6Registered User
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I am going to try it. I just ordered a mini from Dell outlet, $209 after 15% off coupon.
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10-29-2009, 02:58 PM #7
Did it a few weeks ago to a refurb'd 10v from the Dell Outlet. Installation was pretty painless, and everything seems to be working perfectly. I followed the guide the Gizmodo one references. Only downsides are a fairly short battery life and the trackpad on the 10v sucks.
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10-29-2009, 03:26 PM #8Registered User
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Did you see the workout for the trackpad to make it more Mac like? I'll find the link and post it.
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10-29-2009, 03:53 PM #9
The drivers for the trackpad are great (add 2 finger scroll, etc). My problem is with the physical trackpad itself. There are no buttons - you click by pushing down on the bottom corners of the trackpad. Makes it really easy to move the cursor as you're clicking and miss. All in all though, I can't complain about a $200 netbook running OS X...
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10-29-2009, 05:50 PM #10
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10-29-2009, 06:10 PM #11
2.5 hours or so. That's with the 3 cell, not the 6.
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10-30-2009, 08:48 AM #12Registered User
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Did you upgrade to 2G of RAM?
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10-30-2009, 11:07 AM #13
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10-30-2009, 11:58 AM #14
Is there any functionality that is missing, and or limited?
Besides Firewire...
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10-30-2009, 12:49 PM #15Registered User
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I found it on the twitter page for Dell outlet. Google twitter dell outlet, it should pop up. The special I used was daylight saving specials.
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10-30-2009, 06:54 PM #16
I didn't upgrade the RAM, and don't really feel the need. To me the Atom processor is more of a bottleneck than the RAM. But, as long as you're aware of that, OS X runs perfectly on 1gb of RAM.
I haven't noticed any missing functionality, but I mainly just use it around the house for checking out stuff on the web and playing music.
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10-30-2009, 07:17 PM #17
pretty damn cool....
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11-02-2009, 10:39 AM #18pura vida
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This:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/a...ntoshers-in-n/
could make this somewhat less appealling
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11-02-2009, 10:59 AM #19in the zone of excess
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A friend's been using one for months now w/good results. Not sure I'd describe his experience of the install as completely painless, but definitely not bad. Biggest thing I noticed was just how much smaller the thing is than even my 12" ibook. Assuming that you've already got one in your hands, you're obviously good with that, but I know it would take me a little while to get used to doing any real work w/it...
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11-03-2009, 01:03 AM #20
hackintosh a web book=much work for an underpowered slug
the article's talking about new SL features, like Quicktime's new interface, that will firewall that little CPU when you try to use them
if you want an easy install of a better OS for that little netbook, tell the bios to boot from cd and load up a Karmic Koala Live CD
the install process is similar, but simpler
then there's the 29,000 software packages in the Ubu repositories like Blender, r-cran, QGIS, OpenStreet Maps, OpenVPN, OpenSSH, Amarok streaming server, MythTV, LAMP server, Gimp, Tor, Squid, Macchanger, Wireshark, Ettercap,etc,etc...
and you won't even have to click on a EULA, much less pay for any of them
will you have software repos and keyservers (like easy-install) mit der Hackenbox?
i run a FreeBSD network that has better uptimes than my ISP, so i love the OS, but i still think you'd do better with Ubuntu Karmic in this case
by the time you hack enough BSD to make a Hackintosh run like a sweet little underpowered Apple, you will get way more with Ubuntu
and if you are going to put in the effort, you can run Gentoo Gay Cow or Solaris, the most powerful operating systems you can pack into an architecture that size
UBU will make a screaming netbook if you get PDNSD and Polipo
(persistent DNS cache and ultralight transparent proxy make web clients ultrafast)
that being said,
i would partition my hackentosh netbook:
2x ram for swap, (bsd swap)
20% on / (EXT4)
70% on /Home (EXT4) (TruCrypt)
5-10% in a couple EXT4 partitions to run the boot sectors of other distros (like Puppy, or VMware, or BT4 frinstance), which can then boot from a thumb drive
good luck
Beastie wants youLast edited by highangle; 11-03-2009 at 01:36 AM.
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11-03-2009, 03:01 PM #21
highangle speaky no english
another Handsome Boy graduate
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11-03-2009, 04:57 PM #22Registered User
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I had to google a possible translation. I think he says "don't bother with Apple, make it a LINUX machine instead."
I haven't played around with LINUX. Should I start now or walk away from the stranger offering me candy?
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11-03-2009, 07:46 PM #23
for those who don't know, OS SEX is BSD with a proprietary Apple front end
BSD Unix is very much like Linus's Unix (Linux)
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution[/ame]
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Apples are the shit because their hardware is the shit and because Apple puts a good front end on a good Unix OS
trying to run badass Apple software on a nutless little netbook hack is like asking to learn every command, error message, kernel configuration, and manual firmware upgrade in the Unix manual
Apple software is going to make object calls to objects you don't have, authentication calls to authentication you don't have, and error messages you didn't know existed
Ubuntu Linux will work out of the box
boot from the Karmic Live CD, partition according to my basic guidelines, and click install
when it kicks out the CD, boot into your new Linux install, which will run much better than an underpowered Hackintosh
even better: buy a Dell mini 10v with Ubuntu installed at the factory
JMHO
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11-03-2009, 08:18 PM #24I'm not fat I'm big boned
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I just got SL up on my 10v today and it was a fairly painless process... of course, I'm pretty geeky.
I don't see any real benefit to it over Ubuntu or Windows 7 (both of which I use on a fairly regular basis ), except for one really biiiiig thing (the reason I did it even) -- IPhone development.
You can't develop iphone apps on anything but mac os... so the $200 mini 10v is the cheapest way I can see to do it.
And BTW, other than the sucky touchpad, it seems to be working fairly fine. A touch slow when forced to work hard, but that's no big surprise really. It would be slow under Windows with the same load I think.
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11-03-2009, 08:55 PM #25
I just read that the latest OS X update will kill the hackintosh builds that use the intel atom processor. So if your have one up and running don't allow updates to occur automatically and don't update to 10.5.8 (I think that's the latest).
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