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Snow Leopard on the Dell Mini 9

I’ve used a hackintosh netbook since 10.5.6. It even became my primary work machine. When 10.5.8 came around I attempted to do a software update to fix things. I didn’t want to wait around because 10.5.7 had a nasty security vulnerability. Unfortunately software update harfed my install. Apparently you need to use the combo update, [...]

So what happened to the Apple Challenge?

Image via Wikipedia It’s been roughly a year since I lost my faith in the Free Software Foundation. I’d long since been annoyed by juvenile derogatory names like the “Swindle” being used to refer to Amazon’s Kindle and place it on the same level as calling a certain Redmond company “Micro$oft.” While that was enough [...]

Apple OS X Leopard on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9

As of this writing the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is the most compatible with Leopard out of all the netbooks. You can install from a retail copy and just about everything works. Here’s a few tips.