Posts tagged Laptop

Fail on Hackitosh

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515 days
by in Route of Joy

Kane’s Talent Show Opening Movie is so amazing that I want to install a Mac on my laptop. I thought it would be easier cuz I have installed Mac OS 10.5.7 successfully on my last laptop. The success was really lucky cuz all the devices were almost as same as apple’s. But it turned out this time would be much more difficult.

I flashed my BIOS to a leak version which turn on Hardware DEP by default. And then VMware is installed and I tried to get Mac setup in Virtual Machine. It was not a success. Due to hatred of low speed, I didn’t tried workaround.

I wrote Snow Leopard Retail DVD (MBR modified) into my HDD, then used grub4dos to start iBoot. It worked well until I rebooted. Mac installer made Windows Partition inactive, OK, set it active. No Graphic card, sound card and Wired Network installed, OK find the driver. After I tried Multibeast to patch kernel, my laptop froze at BIOS logo!

Maybe the script did some operation on EFI or something. Eject my SSD, insert it into another computer as slave, delete Mac Volume…OK everything works fine again, everything come back to start again.

I’ll try again when I am free.

Disk Duet

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628 days
by in Route of Joy

It was really exciting to change my DVD-ROM to 320 GB HDD.  After I used Intel SSD, it was great but brought me a new problem.  Where should I put my download directory?  As it is known SSD has limited write life.  I tried to use a USB-HDD but it was annoying.  So, I brought a DVD-ROM sized HDD groove and put my 320GB HDD in!

My laptop is unscathed after this surgery.  And I really enjoy the disk duet.

P.S.  I download Assassin’s Creed II and let it run on my laptop.  Almost all the effect can be turned on!  It is amazing.

Acer Problem

4
640 days
by in Route of Joy

Although I bought a laptop with i3 processor which support hardware DEP, Acer banned it from BIOS and don’t offer me a switch to turn it on.  I asked the support but got nothing.  It really confused me why a computer producer turned a feature of Intel CPU off regardless its speed acceleration effect.  Hope Acer will offer a new BIOS which support hardware DEP.

Another problem is that the wireless card cannot be turned on by functional keys in Ubuntu, which, however, sadly lead to network inaccessibility.  I tried to search and solve the problem but it can be predicted that I would get nothing due to Acer complex power saving system, which create these complex functional keys to turn on a device.  But thanks to these power saving systems the laptop can work without AC power up to 8hrs.  Hope ubuntu will support these new hardware although there is a pathetic prediction in my mind.
Hardware DEP is now supported in the latest Acer BIOS update.

Ubuntu could drive the wired network if the driver is manually installed and configured.

New laptop on the run

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645 days
by in Route of Joy

My elder brother came to my home, who, to my surprise, a student with little computer knowledge.  My father suggested me that I should buy a new laptop and send the old one to my elder brother.  I took the advice.  It is barely seen that someone’s parent offer a new laptop in regular days, not your birthday or Christmas Eve.  I started asking and asking my friends. Benny likes the laptop with Intel VT technology.  But it is embedded into every Intel i-series CPU nowadays.  I need DDR3 memory which is also supported by Intel i-series.  So I finally made the choice.  I will buy a laptop with Intel i3 CPU, ATI individual graphic card and metal shell.  I also hope it is not heavy.

So there it is!  Acer 3820TG with i3.  The price is estimated around 5500RMB.  I will buy it with Intel 80G SSD.  I heard that the laptop is really quiet.  With SSD, it will be quieter.

But Acer 3820TG is not sold yet.  I have to wait for a while.

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