My MacBook Wind

How do we define what makes the perfect hackintosh netbook? Let us count the ways...Or rather, the one singular point that hackintoshers look for: compatibility.Of course, having settled for something less than a real Mac hardly entails anyone to expecting out of the box compatibility. Which means one has got to prepare for some substantial tweaking to get stuff working, like...

Yeah, so I should just buy a real Mac if I'm gonna be this obsessed with every bit of detail. But I can't afford it. And so my inner child, one that can be bratty at times, will prevail.I knew I was bound to encounter some problems with my hackintosh along the way. One of them is DVD Player's stubborn refusal to grace my MacBook Wind with its service, sticking its tongue at me...

Perhaps I took cue from the latest look my MacBook Wind desktop now sports so I adopted this new theme :D and I also obliterated that "Just another Wordpress blog".&nb...

Nope. I did not have to do yet another fresh install of Leopard on the MSI Wind plus kexts etc. etc. etc. But, I must admit, I was on the verge of doing it.On one previous post, I related how I nitpicked through the installation ritual - OS X Leopard itself on 10.5.4 + 10.5.5 + 10.5.6 + kexts and all those cherries on top. Sure enough, though I've little to no substantial proof...

Loved this weekend and as with any normal weekends, I spent it tinkering with my MacBook Wind.As in the last post, I did a fresh installation of Leopard which left the system in the "bare" mode, no make-up whatsoever. And so it was high time for some customization, I decided.On with the background picture. I chose my all time fave, a landscape pic featuring the Trianon (I already...

Apparently it does seem cool to have Mac OS X Leopard running on a PC, a netbook at that. Well, at least that's what my roomie thinks.She bought herself a new Asus 1000H and requested that I transform it into a Mac. Short of explaining to her that I really am not transforming her netbook into a Mac, since installing OS X is different from transforming her hardware into an Apple...

So I'm such a mac zealot and from over this last weekend, where I spend a lot of time using my MacBook Wind as my primary computer, I've developped muscle memory and found myself hitting Alt + C to copy files on my office PC.Mainly that's due to the fact that I've gone ahead and fiddle with the physical keys on the Wind's keyboard. Yep, I'd swapped the Alt and the Windows logo...

It has been almost 2 months since I first installed OS X Leopard on my pearl white MSI Wind, thus producing my MacBook Wind. And I don’t know if that spiffy Leopard intro movie is to be held accountable but I installed and reinstalled about 3 times in the first 2 weeks ever since I had the DVD installer with me.I experimented with the kexts and fixes combined with the updates...

I'm used to having to face an installation program when getting a new application on my PC. It's one of those familiar landmarks that let me know I'm home or near home, if you will.In hopes of getting a messenger app other iChat on my MacBook Wind, I got Yahoo Messenger from the DVD I got from a fellow forumer. So, being the PC user I normally am, I clicked on the smiling Yahoo...

yum! nope, it isn't Vanilla flavored cake much as I want it to be. Those two words are actually part of the new parlance I had no choice but to acquire in choosing to be a hackintosher.Vanilla seems to pertain to the kernel version and kext, I've only discovered this fairly recently, means "kernel extension".Right. All I know is that I had to download the appropriate kexts to...

I am beginning to love OS X on my wind, or as I have christened it, "MacBook Wind".Super cool dock, especially with the Stacks feature. And Exposé rocks!But a learning curve is of course to be hurdled like discovering that I can make screenshots by pressing on command (which is Alt on my keyboard) + shift + 3.This is not even a real Mac that I own. My OS X Leopard installation...

After two previous netbooks, the Eee PC 701 and the Eee PC 900, I finally got the MSI Wind U100.It's supposed to be the Linux version that I got from E-hub, which didn't include any OS when I bought it, not even Ubuntu. Apparently, the label "Linux version" meant "without any OS installed" for MSI. I remember having Xandros when I got my Eee PC's. Weird.Anyway, a rundown on the...

As I was running a mere hackintosh, Steve Job's "it just works" moniker does not hold 100% true for my OS X experience. I've had to search into nooks and crannies of forums all over the net and hack away for hours at the least up to days when things are just a jumble of spaghetti mess.One thing thing that doesn't work out of the box even installing with the slip streamed custom...

Don't I just love the new Finder? I'm used to using iTunes 7 and 8 on my workstation PC at the office and I must say that this sidebar thing is great!Couple that with Cover Flow view and Quick Look, and you'll wonder how ever you were able to manage without them.Quick Look is a time saver as it allows me to get a peek at a file without having to open up an application. I'm head...

This is a story of wanting. When kids go off to college, their folks normally give them computers to use for school stuff. I was no exception to that. However, perhaps due to the fact that this is a third world country we were living and continue to live in, if the normal american kid was bought a decent laptop, I was given a boring beige box which was, as I look at it now in...