Macbook Mini 9

Glenn · Jul 02, 2009, 10:29:37

All being well I should have a Dell Macbook Mini 9 working at the weekend, just waiting for the ssd to arrive, so far I have the Dell mini 9, a retail OSX 10.5.6, 2Gb ram. All the instructions for loading OSX on to the Dell are at http://mydellmini.com/forum/ the Mini 9 being nearly 100% compatible.

Steve · Jul 02, 2009, 11:08:23

Glen,Are going to use another mac to setup the ssd

Glenn · Jul 02, 2009, 11:42:53

A colleague at work has put the image on to a 8gb USB flash drive using his Mac

Steve · Jul 02, 2009, 12:06:01

Hopefully it will install as directed

I will be interested in how you feel it performs over the original OS on that machine. I have a netbook Advent 4211 which works very well with XP and I have thought about trying mac os x on it but the wireless adaptor is not fully supported(I can swap it I know) and I worry the fun will be in the install and not make much difference thereafter in terms of a functional netbook.

Sebby · Jul 02, 2009, 14:19:30

Nice one, Glenn.

Glenn · Jul 03, 2009, 07:46:00

Posting from a Dell Macbook Mini9 running 10.5.7

It took a little while to configure, I could have saved an hour or 2 if I didn't miss a step in the instructions

Sebby · Jul 03, 2009, 13:08:25

I always miss vital steps in instructions, mainly because I'm so excited to get it done!

Steve · Jul 03, 2009, 14:16:23

Quote from: Glenn on Jul 03, 2009, 07:46:00
Posting from a Dell Macbook Mini9 running 10.5.7

It took a little while to configure, I could have saved an hour or 2 if I didn't miss a step in the instructions

Well done , Anything not working?

Glenn · Jul 03, 2009, 14:37:44

It all works as far as I know Steve, there maybe an issue reading memory sticks so I have read, and the keyboard layout is US even though the language is set to British, but there is a kext file to fix that

I'm still learning my way around the Mac OS, like how do you minimise/hide the bar at the bottom of the screen, it takes up arounf 1/5th of the display?

RogerP · Jul 03, 2009, 14:49:00

Hi
just go to system preferences , dock and then you can auto hide or vary the size if you want to keep it in view.

rogerp

Glenn · Jul 03, 2009, 17:27:48

Cheers Roger, it's all new to me, this Mac thing

Sebby · Jul 03, 2009, 21:50:52

It was to me not so long ago, Glenn, but I already feel quite comfortable using it. It takes some time - what I found is that you can't try and compare things to how it's done in Windows, because it's completely different.