Tag Archives: MacOS-X
Installing MacOS-X with no patches? EFI-X does the trick?
Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by Wim Haanstra.
I have just been reading some stuff about the new EFI-X solution, which is a USB device you plug in your PC, and it makes it able to boot MacOS-X without need to patch it!
This would be a big step forward in getting MacOS-X to run on all kinds of different computers. I wonder if wireless cards etc would be supported too, because with the hacked MacOS-X’es around nowadays, there are mostly driver problems.
Check out the following link:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=8918797a4b297b8848271af0309ba20f&showtopic=110295
'Fixing' your Home and End keys in MacOS
Posted on 15. Jul, 2007 by Wim Haanstra.
When you are used to ANY other operating system than MacOS X, the Home and End key could get very frustrating in this OS. It’s not that these keys dont work, but they work as Apple wanted them to work.
Therefor a small change to a configuration file could be made, so they should work better.
Continue ReadingMacOS X, great but on a Mac only ?
Posted on 13. Jul, 2007 by Wim Haanstra.
So, at work we got loads of Mac users and they are so very convinced about their OS that I wanted to try out this ‘heaven’ in OSnes. So first our system administrator and I booted up one of our Macs we had lying around (Core2Duo, 2GB of RAM and all of the bells and whistles) to actually get to know the OS a little better.
Rant!
A small rant about my current position, I am a complete Windows addict and I loved (!!) the XP SP2 time. When my new laptop arrived (a fast Core 2 Duo, 2×160GB SATA disk, 2 GB also, and loads of more things), I finally switched to Vista definitly. Well I have to say, if everything was just a tad faster, it probably would be great, but there is the main problem. So, that’s my rant about Vista… let’s continue my story about MacOS.
So there we were, we as total noobs in MacOS land did not really know where to start. Ok, the basics of the OS were pretty simple, but we are not interested in the simple stuff. What we want in MacOS, is running Windows applications. So we installed Parallels Desktop on our machine and booted up a virtual image of Vista. That went pretty well and we actually were stunned by the results of running Windows applications in the same environment as the Mac applications.
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