rmriggin Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 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 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspers Posted April 6, 2007 Share Posted April 6, 2007 NEVER Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-341179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smemobox Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hello, Why dont you post how you had all the hardware working instead? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-353506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquanutz Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 You may wanna add if you are willing to add cash. There is no way someone with a macbook pro is going to trade for that thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-354444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-354456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smemobox Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-358009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-358675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smemobox Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 ok i see. did you buy the Dell 1390 to slide it inside? is it working ok? can you use the wireless? thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-359151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-359231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 5, 2007 Author Share Posted May 5, 2007 decided to give 10.4.9 a go again. xbench score is 109.25 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-359461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dia3olik Posted May 10, 2007 Share Posted May 10, 2007 and with 10.4.8? ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-362466 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 13, 2007 Author Share Posted May 13, 2007 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-364387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
idividebyzero Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 cant you just sell it on ebay then buy a new macbook? If it costs 2300 new then you could easily get enough for a new macbook. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-367978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 19, 2007 Author Share Posted May 19, 2007 I suppose I could try and sell it on eBay. I just am not a fan of the fees but if it sells for the right price then I wont care too much when I have enough to buy the macbook. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-368106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWN_Hellzone Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 (edited) I would say sure.. but idk..... I have a mac book with 512, 60gb hdd no damage besides some of the plastic edgeing. It's a 2.16ghz With SuperDrive Edited May 19, 2007 by Hellzone_Bringer of pain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-368292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmriggin Posted May 19, 2007 Author Share Posted May 19, 2007 what are the total specs on your macbook. from what I see on ebay I should be able to sell mine and get one of the new black macbooks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47608-wtt-core-2-duo-dell-d620-for-macbook/#findComment-368674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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