Comments on: Apple OS X Leopard on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9

By: lance_

lance_ — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:27:05 +0000

I’ve heard of it! I didn’t take a close look because I’ve turned my netbook back into a Windows machine. Bit about only premium apps getting access to some parts of the OS, like the quicklauncher, makes me a little wary. Wonder how they’ll decide what’s premium.

By: Tragaperras

Tragaperras — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:09:42 +0000

Did you see the news that Apple revealed today OS X 10.7 . The Lion (this is it’s name) seems to have some great new features. I am amazed! It is planned to ship next summer.

By: grungysquash

grungysquash — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:16:01 +0000

Am also running OSX – me I’m running Snow Leopard 10.6.3 which currently is the latest release on two mini 9′s

And over the last few months I have found it to be actually rather quick, one is running a runcore 64gig SSD the other the std SETC SSD (16gig) and both perform extremely well.

Everything works including the internal mic & dell 5530 WWAN card, on the 64gig unit I now have ilife & office 2008 for mac and the kids live using it. Overall very pleased with the little mini mac.

By: lance_

lance_ — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:56:50 +0000

Hi Julie,

My sound output works fine. My mic input jack does not, I have to use the internal mic or a USB mic.

I also found an article saying that the Mini 9 had sound trouble but if I recall correctly that’s because they used an older image meant for the MSI Wind. Once I installed off the retail 10.5.3 DVD and updated to 10.5.6 sound worked great.

By: Julie Crawshaw

Julie Crawshaw — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:22:48 +0000

Hello,

I’d like to do this, using the MAC/Dell to run creenFlow screencasting software. My fabulous MAC guy cautioned me that in one article he’d read, the MAC/Dell lost its sound, which would make it unsuitable for what I want to do.

Was the sound on your hybrid affected?

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Julie

By: T Nguyen

T Nguyen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:52:22 +0000

omg… I didn’t know you were suppose to decompress it before burning it. It resulted in a lot of errors before. Thanks a million!

~ T

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:27:31 +0000

Sweet I haven’t heard of OS X running on a netbook before, are there any performance issues? as Mac’s usually have very good hardware, so it’s difficult to tell if they use a vast amount of resources.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:35:58 +0000

Well done! I’d love to hear your overall impressions after using OSX on the mini for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to more posts. :D