While the world waits for Apple to release official news about their new tablet computer, a few smaller (and lesser known) companies are releasing their own touch screen tablets. Â Archos has a few models out, there’s the viliv, and then there’s the whole CrunchPad thing which is now called the JooJoo. Â And I’ve never played…
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Dell Mini 10 – Available Now! $474. Update: Leopard No!
The upcoming Dell Mini 10 looks to be a great machine, and if my hunch is right it could be an even better hacintosh than the Dell Mini 9. Â The bigger, higher rez screen and real (as in reasonably sized) hard drive will put it in a different category over the 9. Â Plus the normal…
Dell Mini 10 – an extra inch makes a big difference
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 has finally appeared on Dell’s website, although it’s not actually for sale yet. The big question is will we be able to install Leopard on it like we can on the Mini 9’s? There’s already a ton a buzz and speculation going on in the forums. I’m sure once they…
Apple Makes Wired Pull Hacintosh Video
I normally don’t link to outside blogs but this one needs to be mentioned because it relates to my Dell Mini 9 Leopard install video. Â Here’s the story on Gizmodo, here it is on 9 to 5 Mac. I found it odd that Wired had posted a video on how to install Leopard on an…
Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP Unbox and Review
Back when I first started this blog I had the theme of “out with the old and in with the new” and it started with the upgrade of my old G5 to a new Intel 8-core PowerMac. In that early post I mentioned the Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP because it has loads of inputs including the new DisplayPort connector…
Dell mini 9 now with 32GB and in Red
The cute little hacintosh we’ve all come to love is now a little bit cuter with new system color options. In addition to Black and White you can now get Cherry Red, Pretty Pink, or 5 different sticker options. Choosing a sticker will add time to shipping, but the Red and Pink configurations appear to…
Deal on Dells
 BlackFriday.info has Black Friday deals posted early. Black Friday, in case you don’t know, is the day after Thanksgiving and is the biggest shopping day of the year.  I found this Dell ad there which shows the Dell Mini 9 for $299 – which is $50 off.  Interesting that an intel Core 2 Duo icon…
Dell Mini 9 Leopard Install
[digg=http://digg.com/mods/Dell_Mini_9_unbox_and_leopard_install_on_video] The big project this weekend was setting up my wife’s “couch computer” (netbook). Â After about a month of waiting the Dell Mini 9 finally arrived. I spent most of the day Saturday working on it. I also videotaped much of the process and made you this lovely video: Watch it in HD over at…
Hacintosh Shipped
Is it Hacintosh or Hackintosh? Anyway, Shannon’s new couch computer is on it’s way.  There’ll be lots of fun stuff to talk about next week: This is the Dell Mini 9 and we’re going to install Leopard on it.  I need to order the 2GB RAM tomorrow too.
Hard drive install time lapse
In keeping with the current theme, here’s a video of me installing a new hard drive in a G4 Powerbook. At the start of the video all the screws had already been taken out. This was my wife’s couch computer. Â I sold it to a buddy for almost enough to completely pay for it’s replacement:…