Well, after my wife took control of the Dell Mini 9 that she bought me (she played with it for 10 minutes and declared it hers), I went out and got the HP Mini 1000 (the 1033CL model from Costco) and after I played with it for a few hours I knew that I wanted to install OS X on it as soon as possible.
Yes I know that it violates Apple’s EULA but if hey would give us a 10” Netbook I would not have to do his. Really Apple. How hard can it be to do? I know you (actually, Steve Jobs) claim that all Netbooks are junk but the HP Mini is a fine piece of laptop hardware.
So after a little bit of research I found the perfect guide (link) that made installing Mac OS X on my HP Mini as easy as I could have imagined. It does take a few hours and it requires a few technical steps but the rewards are more than worth it. The guide was written by bobbypotluck over at www.myHPMini.com and he has added information at this thread. He also has a great video that goes step-by-step for the first part of the install.
So far, everything seems to be working on the HP Mini (HP Mac Mini now) and I did not experience any snags when I followed the guide above.
Wife bought me a Dell Mini 9 Netbook as an early B-day gift. This little thing is very cool but it requires some minor upgrades to make them more usable in my mind. First thing was the RAM upgrade from 512MB to 2GB. That was a small $25 upgrade and it took less than to 2 minutes to do. Next comes the hard drive (or Solid State Drive in this case) upgrade from the puny 8GB to a speedy 64GB SSD. That one, ironically, will cost more than the Mini 9 itself. Damn, these SSD’s are expensive. $220 for 64GB!!!
Then comes the biggest decision of them all… should I keep running XP or install Mac OS X. The Dell Mini 9 is one of the best Netbooks to install Mac OS X on. It pretty much runs natively with very little tweaking. Everything on it works without any major effort. As much as I love OS X, I still like the options and application options that XP has. I may do a double boot system OS X/XP but from what I have read it will take some tweaking and work for the Mini 9 to flawlessly boot into both with a single boot option.
Decisions, decisions.
I couldn’t help myself thinking about all these people trying to figure out what to do for the next hour or so now that Twitter is down.
Filed Under (Celebrities) by YAB on 04-05-2009
Megan Fox in the June issue of Esquire. Check here for the video or watch the embedded one below
Don’t ask me why but I absolutely love zombie movies. It has nothing to do with the gore but more to do with the fact that more and more film makers have realized that the zombie movie has a comedic element that is way too easy to pass up. I have also found that most zombie flicks follow such a basic mythology (or Zombie canons) that it is by far the hardest genre to be original.
Dead Snow (Død snø), which comes from Norway, gives a new twist to the zombie genre. Nazi zombies. Every other element of the movie follows all other zombie movies. Young people, lots of booze, a secluded spot, some sex, and inept zombies that follow Zombie mythology to a tee.
This IMPORT Blu-ray was sent to me by a good friend in Norway but I was not told that it did not have English subtitles so I had to find some from Subscene and remux the video/audio tracks in order to watch it.
The video comes in at an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 AVC but be prepared for a big surprise. This is a 1080i/50 (25fps) disk so if your Blu-ray player cannot handle this be warned. The ATI video card in my system did not have any problems with de-interlacing it and I could not see any judder from the 25fps. The video rate is quite low though (around 14-16mbps) so some of you may see some video noise and artifacts in some scenes. Other than that most scenes look quite good but let’s face it, this is a zombie movie. Don’t expect top notch video or audio quality.
The audio track is a simple ac3 5.1 track at a DVD range of 448kbps. Nothing spectacular but not awful either.
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