Aaargh! Thar She Blows!

Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:33 am Post subject:

Just an update, someone had figured out how to get the headphones working (in OS X) on the asus eeeeepc, and wrote a nice little app with which you could just click on a little icon in your menubar, and select whether you wanted sound through the speakers, through the headphones, or off. Well, it was only a matter of minutes before it was re-worked for the Wind! So, everything is working now except for the mic, which easily works with a USB dongle.

Another cool thing I did, was to install Plex on the Wind, and mount my movies folder from the external firewire drive hooked up to my mini, via a SMB share. I can now flawlessly stream full rip video_ts files to my Wind. Sweet! Next step is to get it working over the internet with my mini set up as a server so I can watch movies anywhere in the world, without lugging the hard drive around.

I'll tell you what, I don't think I'd be having nearly as much fun with the MBP, had I gone and bought that! My wife is enjoying hers, tho.

Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject:

Added a few more touches to the MacBook Nano.

I did a whole write up on my blog, with more photos. Check it out.

Fox · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject:

Nice touches; I really like your OSX and MacBook Nano stickers!

How did you get all those awful stickers off the area around the trackpad? I removed the Windows sticker, but the area under it is now shiny and even alcohol doesn't remove that.

By the way, I also upgraded my RAM and changed my wireless to the Gigabyte GN-WI01GT Atheros wireless. It didn't need any modification to install, gives me stronger reception, and it reportedly is OSX compatible should I ever decide to put OSX on my Wind. (I'm quite happy with Ubuntu, and I've modified its look to include the elements I like from OSX.) My next move will be to upgrade the battery to 6 cell once I've identified a supplier I feel comfortable dealing with.
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bfuerst1 · Member Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 146

i have a 9 cell battery with my boot 132 osx msi wind that i bought on ebay. the seller was from China so it took about 2 weeks to get to the states but it was a great price has so far has had no problems
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Fox · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:54 am Post subject:

I'm going to stick with the 6 cell as I don't want the battery sticking out so far on the bottom.

What's a boot 132 osx? Is that a new way to install it on a PC?
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Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

Yeah, every time I see one of those 9 cells, I get this song stuck in my head.

Laughing

Boot-132 is the newest method for installing OS X on PC hardware. You use a Linux based boot disk that allows you to boot up into a retail Leopard disk. You install like normal. Then, all you have to do is basically load up Chameleon boot-loader and a couple of hardware specific kexts, and you have an original Vanilla kernel OS X install, able to be updated and everything.

There are a couple of great Utilities out there that make the kexts and other OSX86 stuff very easy, created by a guy named PCWiz. Check out his website HERE.

As far as the sticker removal, I believe I just used rubbing alcohol to remove the gunk. I may have used goo-be-gone, or some other similar solvent, I can't really remember. The printed stickers didn't really print as well as I would have liked. I am going to try printing them off on a better printer, and see if that helps.

Aquafire · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:17 am Post subject:

I am mighty impressed by your work...

Well done mate...

Maybe you should consider going into business...

(Strickly underground of course)... Smile

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Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for the compliments Aqua,

While such a business endeavor would be fun for a couple minutes, I don't think it would be lucrative enough for me to give it my energy. I have much bigger schemes that I am focusing on. At the moment, I'll be eternally grateful if my re-install goes OK on my mini. I added a 320GB hdd and 4GB of memory, and I'm trying to do a clean install. However, its giving me all sorts of fits. I believe a scratched DVD to be the culprit. Luckily, I have a backup, and it seems to be going better with that... We'll see...keeping my fingers crossed. OOh! There's the sexy Leopard intro video. Gotta go!

devo · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject:

Nice job! I think you should start pumping them out like Psystar. Wink

Fox · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject:

You mean selling Aargh-a-knot branded MSI Winds with MacOSX installed! Smile

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Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:54 am Post subject:

devo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:20 am Post subject:

khgamez · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:30 am Post subject:

Well done!

devo · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

Aargh-a-Knot · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject:

If anyone is interested, my MacBook Nano is for sale. See the classified section for more info.


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