I notice in hackintosh forums that I frequent, that people are often struggling with two things when it comes to a functional hackintosh. Initial installation Backing up in a way that is simple, and if an update causes problem, reverting back to prior state. Both problems are easy to address. The easiest way to install […]
On Monday, I received my 17″ Mac Book Pro with a 128 GB SSD, ordered within the first hour of availability. I ran xbench and ATTO Bench to evaluate the disk speed. The SSD disk is good, but not great. It is nowhere near where intel’s SSD offerings are. Interestingly, I also noticed that i5 […]
Look at the second line from the bottom, which BTW is mind boggling. Why would Apple, of all tech companies, take the latest 64 bit processor from Intel, and then run the OS in 32 bits on it. While I have not tested with the i7, I presume that the results would be the same, […]
My new 17″ Mac Book Pro showed up this morning. I had ordered the 128 GB Solid State Drive (SSD) with the laptop, and I have not yet played with it much, but it boots in just a few seconds. Check out the boot video below: The drive appears as: It has the following xbench […]
This morning, Apple updated the Mac Book Pro line. Surprisingly, they decided not to offer the Quad Core of Intel i7 processors (i7-820QM, or i7-720QM). Instead, they are offering the dual core i7-620QM or the i5-540QM. The difference between i7-720QM and i5-620QM is 4 MB vs. 3 MB of smart on-board cache and 2.66 GHz […]
According to MacRumors.com, the 4-core MacBook Pro sporting Intel’s i5 and/or i7 mobile CPUs will be introduced this coming week. These CPUs were introduced by Intel in January, code named Arrandale, and subsequently, every laptop manufacturer under the sun brought out products using these CPUs, except Apple. Speculation on the street was that Apple’s engineering […]
Dell Mini 9 Audio with Microphone without VoodooHDA (Snow 10.6.2 – 10.6.6) I have been holding for Meklort to update the audio kext’s for functioning microphone input. Unfortunately,with the Netbook Installer 0.8.3 RC5, the built in mike still not functioning on Dell Mini 9. However, I did come across a thread by flames on insanelymac.com […]
A Nixie clock widget with artwork based on TubeClock by Robert Borries. Displays time with great artwork. Have fun! Can also be found from Apple’s site here. Can be downloaded from here. System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later. PS. The posting originally referred to the clock as ‘pixie’, which is how the Apple Widget site […]
My MacBook Pro 17″ has the common issue of waking up from sleep during transportation. Despite owning it for 7-8 months, I did not want to take it back as it is a relatively common problem with many people reporting that taking it back did not resolve this issue. To avoid shutting it down, I […]
