Comments on: Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1132 Figuring Things Out And Making It Up As We Go Along Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Keola http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1132&cpage=1#comment-469 Keola Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:13:25 +0000 http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1132#comment-469 Aloha. Main limitation is the small screen (obviously) and small SSD drive. Mini 9's most common configuation is 4G, I paid to have it build with 16. 8G is minimum to do a Hackintosh (I've been told) but 16 preferable. For the younger folks, the drive side is an issue with music in iTunes and pic in iPhoto. Fortunately both now support multiple libraries, so you could keep larger libraries on an external USB drive and smaller collections internally. I still haven't migrated my wife's data from her old laptop to this, need to work out that and a backup scheme as doing updates seems to be hit and miss. Need to make sure I can restore if things go awry. Will post new findings as they happen. Aloha. Main limitation is the small screen (obviously) and small SSD drive. Mini 9’s most common configuation is 4G, I paid to have it build with 16. 8G is minimum to do a Hackintosh (I’ve been told) but 16 preferable.

For the younger folks, the drive side is an issue with music in iTunes and pic in iPhoto. Fortunately both now support multiple libraries, so you could keep larger libraries on an external USB drive and smaller collections internally. I still haven’t migrated my wife’s data from her old laptop to this, need to work out that and a backup scheme as doing updates seems to be hit and miss. Need to make sure I can restore if things go awry. Will post new findings as they happen.

]]> By: Jason Tucker http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1132&cpage=1#comment-468 Jason Tucker Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:54:46 +0000 http://www.culturehacks.com/?p=1132#comment-468 I'm thinking of getting 4 of these for each of my family members and hackintoshing them all. I have 2 teenagers that go to school and would benefit from having a computer in the classroom. Add in the "thats not windows" to the mix and "why doesn't your get viruses" and my kids may be the talk of the town. Actually, the latter is all I'm really worried about and since we're a mac family already the kids are use to being able to do things on the mac with less worry than their friends that use windows. I'd like to know how this goes for your wife. I currently have a HP Pavilion running Leopard (haven't tried snow leopard on it yet) and love the thing. It's massive and a pain to take places which is why im looking at the Dell Mini 9 as a better alternative. I’m thinking of getting 4 of these for each of my family members and hackintoshing them all. I have 2 teenagers that go to school and would benefit from having a computer in the classroom. Add in the “thats not windows” to the mix and “why doesn’t your get viruses” and my kids may be the talk of the town. Actually, the latter is all I’m really worried about and since we’re a mac family already the kids are use to being able to do things on the mac with less worry than their friends that use windows.

I’d like to know how this goes for your wife. I currently have a HP Pavilion running Leopard (haven’t tried snow leopard on it yet) and love the thing. It’s massive and a pain to take places which is why im looking at the Dell Mini 9 as a better alternative.

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