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WTT Core 2 Duo Dell D620 for MacBook


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The specs on my laptop are as follows

Dell Latitude D620

Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 2.33 GHz 4MB cache

2GB DDR2 667

60GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive

touchpad fingerprint reader

8x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW drive

Media card reader

256MB nVidia Quattro NVS 110M (same as GeForce GO 7300)

14.1" WSXGA 1400x900

Bluetooth

Intel 3950ABG wireless

Dell 1390 wireless

Dell 1490 wireless

3 years warranty

Windows XP Pro

Vista Express Upgrade

 

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I have installed OSX on this laptop and have had everything working with the exception of lan. Bluetooth, wireless, audio, CI, QE, full resolution, and dvd).

I would actually be willing to trade for a MacBook with the core2duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, and the superdrive.

The specs on this laptop price out to $2,300 though Dell and that is including the student discount I qualify for. I am wishing I would have gone with a MacBook pro but I thought I would need gaming and Windows more then I ended up. In fact I have not done any gaming with the laptop since I got it.

So basically I am looking for a macbook or macbook pro with a core2duo cpu. I would love to trade for a macbook pro if at all possible.

Thanks for looking!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Unfortunately I don't have cash I can offer. I can however offer a near mint condition 30gb black ipod video with protective leather case, dock, and sync/charge cable.

Considering the specs on my laptop, the warranty, and that I would be offering a ipod video, I would expect the core 2 duo black macbook.

 

Now about how I ran OSX on it...

JaS 10.4.8 install DVD with both patches. nVidia drivers included on JaS DVD, HDA sound patcher with dell 9200 text dump, dell 1390 and dell 1490 wireless cards with eth1 modification. DaemonES kernel

Sound works, wireless works, bluetooth works, dvd burning works, full resolution, QE and CI work. Only problems are can only run with cpus=1 and of course sleep and hibernate do not work.

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Hello,

 

Do you mean you selected the NVidia .kexts during the installation?

Does the system recognize all the video card memory then?

 

And what about the DaemonES kernel?

Would you maybe run a full XBench and let us know what you get?

 

Thanks.

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I used the nvidia kexts during install and it detected the card as a geforce go 7300 but it only uses the dedicated memory instead of the "turbocache" shared memory. I was using the 8.8.1 DaemonES kernel. I never benchmarked it because I didn't think to and also because I was never able to use both cores without it running slower than it does with a single core.

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Yes I did buy the Dell 1390 I also bought a Dell 1490 and both work with OSX as soon as I edit the network plist file as shown in one of the threads on this site (I forget the thread but I remember what had to be edited in the file).

I really didn't want this to become a how-to thread because I am still wanting to trade for a MacBook. Any takers yet?

I am currently running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 and it is running like a charm. If OSX kernel hacks develop further to allow me to use both cores then I may switch back to OSX.

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I didn't leave 10.4.8 on long enough to do any benching. I was hoping the new bios that Dell released along with the new kernel release with 10.4.9 would have let me use both cores without stuttering issues... I was wrong!

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