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What's the point of having the slick and attractive OS X installed on your machine if its anchored to your desk where nobody will see it? Imagine the looks on the faces of the Powerbook-toting Starbucks crowd when you whip out an OSx86 'PC' notebook.

 

So, what do you guys think is the best/cheapest laptop for running OSx86? We all know that Intel chipsets seem to work better, but the only mobile chips with SSE3 support are the AMD Turion ones. Of course that might not be an issue with Maxxuss's patch.

 

Besides, for serious 'workstation' use, do you really want to use OS X? I don't...

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Bodnar
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Well,

 

If you get a AMD 64 laptop, you could put one of hte new semprons in there. I got a Ferrari 3200, which has a 2800+ in it. Right now i'm looking at just getting the semp 3400+, since it'll fit in here, the heat will stay more or less in the same ball park, uses less power from what i saw, performs around that of a full 3000 - 3200, plus see3 :)

 

I'm trying to get any confirming on how much of the ferrari is actually supported. I've been reading that the lan and audio work (or should), but haven't heard anything about the bluetooth/USB.

dano272
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I have the Deadmoo image running on my Dell 700M. I have 512MB of memory and it's running very nice - even with the Maxxus SSE2 hack. Boots up in less than 30 seconds. Things that work great - 1280x800 widescreen resolution, onboard nic, and sound. Things that don't work - on board wireless. I haven't plugged in anything to the USB or firewire - so I can't comment on those. But all in all - OSX on the 700m works great - plus it's nice and small.

hardboiledwonderland
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Wow, Dano, that sounds very nice indeed.

 

Too bad though about the wireless since (for me and many people) that is so incredibly key to laptop operation.

 

Is there anyone who has gotten their wireless to work in OSx86? Particularly in a laptop, but also on a desktop I guess.

 

Here's an idea: can you stick a standard Airport card into a PCMCIA slot? That'd be great (provided you could hook up the antenna)!

zorxd
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Dano,

 

How did you enable 1280x800? This is the last patch I need to apply to my Pavillion zt3280.

 

Please upload any files to the Archive area or PM me.

 

 

I ordered an Asus Z71A before the leak/patches of MacOSX86 and according to the specs it should work just fine.

 

Intel GMA900

Realtek something reported to work NIC

Intel HD audio (Isn't it what the original dev kit has?)

cartunes
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I, too, would like information on getting 1290x800 resolution on my 700m. Please post or pm me.

 

I have the Deadmoo image running on my Dell 700M.  I have 512MB of memory and it's running very nice - even with the Maxxus SSE2 hack.  Boots up in less than 30 seconds.  Things that work great - 1280x800 widescreen resolution, onboard nic, and sound.  Things that don't work - on board wireless.  I haven't plugged in anything to the USB or firewire - so I can't comment on those.  But all in all - OSX on the 700m works great - plus it's nice and small.

KENNYB
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IBM T42, with 1.5G Pentuim M,768M memory.

After patched SSE3->SSE2, it runs well. (OK, Safari crashes sometimes)

 

The XBench score:28.4

 

The most terrible part of xbench test:

Disk test->Random->Uncached write[4kb block], I got only 4.84 !

 

How does it run on your laptop? I'm looking at getting a T42 or T43 for cheap.

What does and doesn't work? I think you're using a mobile radeon 7500. Does QE work?

 

Better yet, is anyone running OS X on a laptop that has pci-express?

JE
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I have the Deadmoo image running on my Dell 700M.  I have 512MB of memory and it's running very nice - even with the Maxxus SSE2 hack.  Boots up in less than 30 seconds.  Things that work great - 1280x800 widescreen resolution, onboard nic, and sound.  Things that don't work - on board wireless.  I haven't plugged in anything to the USB or firewire - so I can't comment on those.  But all in all - OSX on the 700m works great - plus it's nice and small.

 

1280x800....how?

jas67
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IBM T42, with 1.5G Pentuim M,768M memory.

After patched SSE3->SSE2, it runs well. (OK, Safari crashes sometimes)

 

The XBench score:28.4

 

The most terrible part of xbench test:

Disk test->Random->Uncached write[4kb block], I got only 4.84 !

 

I have an IBM Thinkpad T40p, with a 1.6G Pentium M and 1.5gb of RAM. It scores about 1/4 of the score that my empolyer-provided Dell Latitude D-800 w/ 1.8G Pentium MM and 1gb RAM. My Thinkpad T30 is also much slower than it should be.

 

Now, neither machine is any significantly slower than the D800 under Linux or Windows.

 

My only guess here is that power management/speed step is running them slow. I can use the power button on the D-800 to power down (brings up the window asking if you want to shut down, restart, sleep, etc, just like on a Mac), but can't on either Thinkpad.

 

I get about 8 on the CPU score on the T40p, and 42 on the D-800. What are you getting on your T42 on the CPU score?

 

Any ideas what settings I can change?

 

Thanks,

Jay

dano272
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Here - briefly - is how I got my video to 1280x800. This is for my Dell 700m - I can't comment on any other set up.

 

I downloaded a kext file from the concretesurf forums. You need to look for the AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext file. The kext file contains a file inside called info.plist. The ID number in the text file (on line 34 right after the IOPCIMatch bit) was changed to match the ID number of the Dell 700M onboard video card. That ID can be found by clicking on the apple logo and then on About This Mac. Then click on more info and then on the graphics section. The ID number is simply listed as ID. For the 700m's video - the number was 0x3582. For the info.plist - you need to append 8086 to it to make 0x35828086. This kext was then placed into the /system/library/extensions directory. To get mine to work - I had to chmod -R 755 and chown -R wheel:owner the file. Reboot and viola - 1280x800.

 

I gleaned all of this info on these forums. Good luck.

jchowland
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I have an IBM Thinkpad T40p, with a 1.6G Pentium M and 1.5gb of RAM.     It scores about 1/4 of the score that my empolyer-provided Dell Latitude D-800 w/ 1.8G Pentium MM and 1gb RAM.    My Thinkpad T30 is also much slower than it should be.

 

Now, neither machine is any significantly slower than the D800 under Linux or Windows.

 

My only guess here is that power management/speed step is running them slow.     I can use the power button on the D-800 to power down (brings up the window asking if you want to shut down, restart, sleep, etc, just like on a Mac), but can't on either Thinkpad.

 

I get about 8 on the CPU score on the T40p, and 42 on the D-800.    What are you getting on your T42 on the CPU score?

 

Any ideas what settings I can change?

 

Thanks,

Jay

 

I think you can disable speedstep in windows somewhere

But i dunno - my machine's stuck on ~200mhz permanantly (A t40 1.5)

bsod
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Here - briefly - is how I got my video to 1280x800.  This is for my Dell 700m - I can't comment on any other set up.

 

I downloaded a kext file from the concretesurf forums.  You need to look for the AppleIntelIntegratedGraphics.kext file.  The kext file contains a file inside called info.plist.  The ID number in the text file (on line 34 right after the IOPCIMatch bit) was changed to match the ID number of the Dell 700M onboard video card.  That ID can be found by clicking on the apple logo and then on About This Mac.  Then click on more info and then on the graphics section.  The ID number is simply listed as ID.  For the 700m's video - the number was 0x3582.  For the info.plist - you need to append 8086 to it to make 0x35828086.  This kext was then placed into the /system/library/extensions directory.  To get mine to work - I had to chmod -R 755 and chown -R wheel:owner the file.  Reboot and viola - 1280x800.

 

I gleaned all of this info on these forums.  Good luck.

 

i have a hp dv4000 which uses an integrated intel chipset 915gm. i found the kext file and changed the value to the one from the system profiler. i was just wondering what 'chmod -r 755' and 'chown -r wheel:owner the file' is referring to. any way you could provide more details? thanks.

wangii
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where do you guys get the patch from?

could someone email me some info plz

I got Dell D600 with Intel Pentium M 1.4 Ghz, no SSE3 :(

 

Thanks in advance!

 

I dowloaded it from wiki days ago. it named "maxxuss-sseto2-allinclusive-v0.2.zip". Maybe you can still find it in this forum.

If you failed to find it, I can mail it to you.

cyrana
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Concretesurf is down due to using too much bandwidth...

 

If you check the Software forum here you can find links to download the inclusive patches, too.

 

And, my Compaq NC6000 works just fine (aside from wireless). No QE or anything but I can run my Mobility 9600 at 1400x1500x32 (VESA of course). Sound, USB and all that function, as well as on-board ethernet. I recommend deleting all the ATI kexts, though.

TechnoFreak
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it works like a charm on an old HP pavilion zt1260 (p4 1.6, 512, radeon 7500c... - after sse2 patches), i also tested on a compaq :blink: evo n1020v (p4 2.4, 512, radeon igp) - audio doesn't work. the flurry screensaver looks better on the old HP then on the jiffy compaq...

Tuxedo Jack
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My Dell Latitude D600 boots quite nicely and quickly - and it's only got 256MB of RAM to boot.

 

It's to the desktop in under 30 seconds, and that's with the login prompt included.

 

Now if there was some way to use the whole 18GB drive as HFS+ instead of just a 6GB HFS+ drive and a 12GB FAT32 drive, I'd be in heaven.

 

The only thing that doesn't work on it is the built-in wireless. Just get some OS X supported card instead. Its PCMCIA type II slot can take most of them.

 

Oh, and it's confusing to use Alt for Command, Windows for Option, and Control for... well, control. But you get used to it soon enough.

cyrana
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No PCMCIA wireless cards are known to work as an FYI. I do notice during bootup that there are some cardbus initialization problems (yenta one) in my case. I bet it is the case for many currently.

 

Once they get that part fixed, cards like the Linksys WPC54G or an Airport card are your best bets (since the use the same chipset). Only time will tell.

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