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The Fujitsu Siemens E Series Lifebook 8020 with the Intel graficcard ( build-in ) is very compatible with OS X, but not Out Of The Box.

 

First the hardware info:

CPU: Intel Centrino 1.73 ( NO SSE3 )

RAM: 512 MB DDR RAM.

HD: 60 GB SATA Harddisk ( Fujitsu MHT2060BH )

BT: Alps Bluetooth

IR: SMC IrCC

USB: USB ( 4x )

FW: FireWire

NIC: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

NIC: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet

DVD: Mat{censored}a UJ-831Db

SND: Not sure - info is odd. Will google it.

GFX: Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family ( listed twice )

 

So what works:

CPU: Intel Centrino 1.73 ( YES: With the SSE2Hack of course )

RAM: 512 MB DDR RAM ( YES )

HD: 60 GB SATA Harddisk ( Fujitsu MHT2060BH ) ( YES: Tweaking in BIOS.. instructions below )

BT: Alps Bluetooth ( YES )

IR: SMC IrCC - Not Sure.. Not tested

USB: USB ( 4x ) ( YES )

FW: FireWire ( YES )

NIC: Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection ( NO )

NIC: Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet ( NO )

DVD: Mat{censored}a UJ-831Db ( YES: Burning is listed as unsupported )

SND: Not sure - info is odd. Will google it. ( YES: No info in System Profiler though )

GFX: Mobile Intel® 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family ( listed twice ) ( VESA3 only )

 

As you can see you get a good amount of stuff going, but no ethernet, so this is of course a problem. I haven't been lucky with any of the network kexts from this board, so I doubt it's near any support at the moment.

Best bet from me is of course that you buy an OS X compatible adaptor for USB. PCMCIA you can try but I haven't been lucky with any of my current PCMCIA cards in it sooo it's a bit unsure if it will work with any at all.

 

The most important step in getting OS X to run on this computer is to disbale AHCI under the SATA settings in BIOS. Otherwise OS X can't find the HD.

Just a small warning though... It might have been this which killed my XP install on the drive ( BSOD during bootup in Windows ) so be sure to backup your data before going into BIOS and disabling this. If you can simply turn it back when wanting to boot Windows is probably an option, but as I haven't tested I can't really tell.

 

I hope this report will be of help to others :-)

 

Cheers

-Daxziz

Just give you some hint....

try a USB wireless device.. Buffalo keychain works for me.

(BTW, I have a fujitsu S6420)

you can hack the CI & QE support with a dummy s-video adaptor.

 

The USB wireless dongle I already know about and I expect to do so.

 

The other hack I'll have to search for :-)

 

 

-Daxziz

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