Newbie with questions!

[GiggityGoo]

Hey everyone,

 

I've been reading up about OSx86 and I'm really looking forward to trying it out. I love Macs to bits and I can't wait to start setting this up, but first I've got some questions.

 

I know a fair bit about dual boots and stuff, I've had numbers boots...Vista/Ubuntu/XP etc etc - But I've never done it with this before.

 

My current setup is as follows:

 

Dell M1710 Laptop

- Intel Core 2 Duo T7400

- nVidia 512mb GeForce Go 7900 GTX

- 1 Gig of ram

- Windows Vista Ultimate (Fresh install)

- 100gb hard drive.

 

So I'm going to setup the drive to have 2 separate partitions. I'll probably make the OSX one about 20Gigs.

I'm just after some pointers really or anything I need to watch out for.

I'm currently 'getting hold of' uphuck 10.4.9 v1.3 - I've read on the Wiki about only 1 core being supported (that was for a previous version 10.4.8 I think) - Does that apply to this version?

My CPU supports SSE 3 - I've seen lots about SSE 2 but I don't really know what this means.

Updating Kernel - Ok, I know what kernel is and what it does but I've got no idea how to install it, update it or what effect it might have on my computer/installation.

 

-Just some of my concerns.

 

So pretty much I'm after some pointers for a newbie and any problems I might face, specifically to my system (Dell M1710).

I've been looking at some installation guides: http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/06/25/os...-boot-intelamd/

They seem too straight forward though! Is it really that easy?

 

Thanks for reading and I hope you can point me in the right direction.

[Guest Ramm]

First, you should pay another visit to the wiki to check your hardware.

--If your CPU supports SSE3, that is very good. SSE- are the instructions that "tell" the processor what to do.

--You shouldn't need to update your kernel.