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