New Mhackintosh and Hackintosh blog
July 8th, 2009
Yesterday, I started a blog about Mhackintosh, that is mainly hacked PC to run Mac OS X or Mac OS X-compatible distributions.
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Reactivness…
June 28th, 2009
I have a big Mhackintosh, Quad-core, 8GB RAM, 2×7200rpm hard-drives (1.5TB at this time), GeForce 8800, that is also running Windows Vista (mainly for Blu-Ray Ripping and re-encoding).
On the other hand my main Mac is my MacBookPro, that is 2X slower in any sense, Dual-core, 4GB RAM, 1×5400rpm laptop hard-drive, GeForce 8600M…
But when I compare this big PC on Vista and my laptop on Mac OS X Leopard, I get a feeling of powerness on my laptop, mainly by the benfit of Mac OS X reactivness. Just an example.
Yesterday I was copying 400GB between two external eSATA hard-drive on my laptop, while chating with FireFox and Safari, MSN with adium X, reviewing photos with Preview and then editing them with Lightroom 2 or CS 4. All that simultaneously, switching between my tasks using Expose.
At one time, after editing the last photo, I decided to switch off and remembered at the last second that my 400GB copy was running: I didn’t notice any performance degradation nor slowlyness, my laptop was just as reactive as usually…
Just before that, I was copying 3 encoded H.264 movies (12+GB) on my Quad-core PC, and then I decided to close the Explorer windows while the copy was running (slowly!). It tooks Vista between 3 and 4 second just to close each window, as if the computer was overloaded. The only task was to copy files, no Photoshop CS4, no Browser open, no MSN … and 2X to 3X the potential performance of my laptop!
The Mac OS X experience is something that anyone should try, at least one week, to discover how a modern computer could be efficient and reactive!
Nikon scanner : NikonScan software
June 27th, 2009
Nikon just stopped it’s Nikon CoolScan line, and you’d better download the software on it’s latest version, for Windows (4.0.3) or for Mac (4.0 upgraded with 4.0.2 update).
Go go go!
Rogers & iPhone MMS problem
June 25th, 2009
Rogers is just a crappy wireless provide, I knew it, but that’s the only way to have an iPhone in Canada (or FIDO that’s a brand of Rogers too!).
I don’t receive nor seems to send MMS with my iPhone upgraded to iPhone OS 3.0, I checked that MMS are enabled on my iPhone, and then tried to call Rogers. Naturally half-an-hour waiting time is estimated! How my battery will handle that???
Anyway they have an online support forum, but…
But to have this support (faster?), you have to have a WINDOWS PC and an INTERNET CONNECTION, so when you ask for service, you’d better have your cell phone plugged on powercord, or go buy a PC just to be able to have quicker support!
Take care Steve!
June 20th, 2009
We all know what you achieved these 35 last years and are grateful for the rich and different vision of personal computing and personal communication that you gave us.
Take care!