bid chronicles

I know that fans love {put anything here} to death. But Apple fans really have to admit that Apple can be one hell of an annoying kid sometimes. You know that kid in class, who tells you how he/she found this wonderful secret place and how it is so awesome and everything. They will even show you pictures of it but refuse to tell you where it is? Apple is just like that.

They just updated their MacBook and MacBook Pro today. Being one of those guys who follow processor technology closely, I was interested if they shifted to Intel’s new Penryn line. Now I simple Core 2 Duo T8100 would have sufficed in their detailed specs but instead Apple decides it wants to tell you that it uses a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo. Which could be a T7700 or the new T8300.

To figure out which one it is I had to depend on the L2 cache size since that was the only extra information I could find on the stupid Apple.com. So using that now I can tell that the base MacBook comes with a T8100 and the upgraded one sports the T8300. But why do I have to rely on that? Seriously? Why can’t they say that the MacBook Pro can now be upgraded to the T9300?

Hello everyone. There’s someone new in the house. Meet …

Yeah, haven’t quite named her. Any suggestions?

I was working and all of a sudden I got this bright idea. Since now Apple runs on Intel and everything else that Windows runs on (all but EFI bios), it has in fact become a lot easier to build a Hackintosh. The only way someone can in fact make it easier, is if they build the computer around the parts that already work with Mac.

So if a laptop manufacturer, decided to start using similar (or same) parts that are already used in the Mac Book line, they can in fact make a laptop that would be able to support Mac 100% (minus the EFI BiOS of course). Now wouldn’t that be something? A laptop built for Windows and Linux, all of a sudden just happens to support Mac completely if you can get around the EFI issue. Now that, as yours truly already state, is just a matter of finding the right image.

Ah, the beauty. Since the last post I have actually managed to install Leopard on my laptop. (The initial pictures were from my desktop. After mucking around for days with several reinstallation, I find finally found the audio driver required for the laptop.

After that Google was my best buddy in trying to figure out how I can get parts of the laptop activated under Macintosh. This is mainly since Apple only supports a strict subset of the entire hardware market.Anyway, Google has given me the solution to get my Ethernet working (modifying a kernel extension file), and also lead me to a forum discussion where some guy is working on trying to get the Wireless driver to work. I thought that was the last bit, but soon I discovered that the built-in mic and the audio ports don’t work. No news on that front yet.

All that aside, though I have had a pretty decent experience with Leopard. Just today I got Vista and Leopard both happy side by side. And this post is actually made from Leopard There are some things I love about the Mac. The graphic, the finishing - in one word it’s just marvellous. Then there is Mac’s all famous dock, Spaces and Adium. After using it for the last few days, I can see myself be happy under it. The *nix commad shell by itself is very welcoming.

On the other hand, keyboard navigation through the things could be a lot better. On the laptop I hardly use my mouse. I tend to use keyboard short-cuts for hoping between things. Though on many occasions the keyboard access to things beats Windows, the whole Enter to rename, Enter to trigger a selected button, Space to trigger a focused button and Flw+O to open a Finder item is quite annoying. But I can live with that.

I think I’ll keep Leopard on my laptop. It does take away 17 GB from my document partition, but hey it’s pretty