Justin's OSX86 Experience

Acer Aspire One A150

I have been curious for some time now as to how OSX performs on Intel's Atom processor. So far Ive been extremely impressed with using this netbook. I have installed 10.5.5 and have managed to get audio, video, Ethernet,...

I picked up two Acer X223w 22" monitors from Newegg. Both running at 1650x1080 I love the real estate. OSX deserves it. I used an X-Rite Eye One to calibrate my main monitor and have been extremely pleased with the results. I do notice extremely dark shadows start to block up but for the price Im very...

Full 4GB Finally

I gave Slashack's fix for the 4GB problem a try and it works. Here is a link to his post.

I did the old swap-a-rew on my AppleNForceATA.kext

I opened Activity Monitor to the memory tab then scaled an image in photoshop along with clicking all 33 applications in my...

M2N-SLI Deluxe BIOS Borking Guide

1. Go to Asus.com to download the latest bios for your mobo.
2. Download all drivers/utilities for your mobo.
3. Notice that the utility "Asus Update" can download and flash your bios from Windows.
4. Knowing that you should save the bios update to a usb thumb drive and reboot into the bios setup to flash. You...

UPDATE:

Everything solved which the exception of being able to use all 4GB . Running 10.5.5. Used nForceLAN, 9.5.0 kenel & Zeph's System Update 0.5. Now with everything I need supported I will start on a Retail Disk install.

Round two on my M2N SLI Deluxe AMD Box. I have gathered some files up and talked two...

So I am starting from scratch and would like some advice.

Questions:

1. Which distro should I use? Or should I use the Kalyway distro I already know works and update?
2. Do the program crashes apear to be cause because of my AMD processor and are they correctable?
3. What is the best method for updating leopard on AMD platform
3. I want to dual...

[UPDATE] I am not sure if it was a req to first upgrade the kernel and system.kext but after updating my kernel/system.kext I have had no problems taking a clean Kalyway 10.5.2 Install to 10.5.5 with Zeph's 0.5 ASU. Obviously the below was just me not reading directions.

I used Zephiroth's ASU to...

[UPDATE] Slashack's fix works see this post and forget all about maxmem LINK TO POST

I had a few issues with random freezes while using Transmission. I did not think Transmission was a memory intensive program but Activity Monitor showed I was...

Results    136.22    < A little something I like to call Sweet Action

[ These results are with 2gb ram. I pulled the other two for a second box. Ill post results with the full 4gb shortly ]

So I ran it on my work computer G5 Powermac dual 2GHz 2.5RAM and got 90.7 so im...

Ive moved on to a new project. Ive listed the system specs and issues I ran into below.

MOBO: Asus M2N SLI Deluxe (BIOS )
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 5000 X2
RAM: Corsair XMS2 DDR-800 1gb x4 (4gb)
GRAPHICS: PNY 7600GT 256mb (VCG7600GXPB)
DRIVES: 1x WD 74gb Raptor SATA 1.5, 3x WD Caviar 80gb SATA 3, NEC DVD Burner (ND3550A), ASUS...