If you have an hard-drive connected to your Airport Extreme, or any other Aiport base, please wait before installng the last Apple updates:
there’s report on Internet that this cause problems with connected hard-drive, and my co-worker had the problem with it’s Airport Extrem and it’s USB hard-drive, since he updates the firmware.
The disks seems connected but always in idle state, and there’s no way to open it from the Mac without unpling it’s USB cable and replugin it! Apple support seems totally lost with this problem.
So stay safe with the latest Airport Extrem firmware update!!!
General
Airport Extrem, firmware
I just finished downloading 2 distributions that I want to try…
General
An excellent guide about Mac performance, some things may be outdated but the whole content deserve careful reading and understanding : MacPerformanceGuide.com
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benchmark, guide, performance
My own Hackintosh/FrankenMac
It’s an Acer actually, sporting Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. I will have to upgrade it a little, add 3GB RAM (Removing 1GB, and adding 2×2GB sticks), adding a 1TB drive to the 500GB installed drive, or maybe 2×750GB drives? And add my Blu-Ray reader internally (something a MacPro or iMac user couldn’t dream of: viewing Blu-Ray content with HDCP display)
Anyway, it’s actually working on Windows, I have to reinstall Windows, reinstall firewall, reinstall antivirus, reinstall anti-malware, all the loss of time associated with Windows!
Then install a distribution of OS X for PC, to give it a try.
HackIntosh
FrankenMac, hackintosh
I will go to the Dark Side : Hackintosh OSx86 (wikipedia).
A Hackintosh is a PC where you install Mac OS X, using hardware/software tricks, such as EFI motherboard, EFI-X bootloader, or a distribution of hacked Mac OS X Leopard. The idea is to have Mac OS X running on a cheap PC instead paying the price of a real Mac.
I will buy a Quad-Core 4×3.0Ghz PC with GeForce 8800 to install Mac OS X on it. Yes this setup is faster than first generation MacPro, that sold for $2000 used, but I plan to pay it around $500: a bargain!
How to install? Which distribution to install? How it’s effectively working? What’s the performances against real Mac? And more: what’s the MacPro or iMac do better that justify it’s tag price?
HackIntosh
hackintosh