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Wondering how people have hardware-hacked their Minis
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What OS do you run on your Mini 9?
by Nate

Topic: Hackintosh

13 replies / Originally posted by TRamin / Latest reply from Kerensky97 / Topic is open

By TRamin

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Just to let any potential buyers know, you can definitely run osx on this easily check out mydellmini.com

Posted 8 months ago

By MJZimmer88

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I want... but to be fair... my HP Mini on XP works really well, and i dont see any reason to OS-X it.

I'm also lazy. I hackint0shed my compaq laptop and it was awesome, but a b*tch to get up and running

Posted 8 months ago

By RedSeven

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Hackintoshing doesn't need to be as hard as you might think. The first time I installed OS X on the Mini 9 I used the method Gizmodo described http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini
-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook - which involves having a compatible optical drive or messing around partitioning a thumb drive, which took me quite a while.

Recently though I've discovered I can just connect my Runcore SSD to my MacBook with a USB cable, run the OS X installer on my MacBook and install right onto the SSD. Simple as. Then just put the drive back in your mini and use mydellmini's installer to setup the last bits of hardware.

Posted 8 months ago

By dan325013

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Does the hackintosh mod work with the Dell Mini 10v just as it would with the Dell Mini 9?

Posted 8 months ago

By RedSeven

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Regrettably no. Mini 10 uses a couple of different components, most notably a different graphics chip, which is incompatible with OS X.

Posted 8 months ago

By emsix

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Not true. The Mini 10 is not compatible with OS X, however Mini 10v has the same GMA950 graphics chip as the Mini 9, so Leopard can be installed with few issues. See the chart at http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/17/osx-netbook-com
patib.html.

Posted 8 months ago

By AJF

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I did 2 of them and they are fantastic! I'm no technowiz either but even I found it very easy to do.

Posted 8 months ago

By RobKerr

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My son and I hackintoshed it together. Wanted it to be a teaching/learning experience. Worked great! Even the few snags we ran into were educational. Good project.

Posted 8 months ago

By RockhopperDad

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I hackintoshed a Dell Mini 9 as well. The folks at MyDellMini have the boot installers down so you can load all of it up via a desktop Mac onto a flash drive and then install OS X from there. The whole process took a few hours without a hitch.

Posted 8 months ago

By derekmelton

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How's sleep mode on the Dell mini? I recently got my Acer Aspire One D150 up and running (Check for gdgt post under my name) and i have everything working fine except sleep mode. I have wifi via replacement dell 1490 card, ethernet works, full graphic acceleration with quartz running (GMA950 chipset) photobooth works with webcam, takes updates, etc. Mine is 10.5.7 and running GREAT!

Posted 8 months ago

By TRamin

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@derekmelton The sleep mode on the dell mini 9 (A90) only works if you replace the ssd inside. ZI currently have a 32GB runcore, and sleep mode works like a charm

Posted 8 months ago

By TRamin

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For those people with an Intel Mac and a Runcore SSD, here is the easiest way to go about installing osx

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/mac-os-x-guides/6452-how
-load-os-x-directly-onto-runcore-mac.html


For those of you intent on putting osx on a dell mini 10v, here is a almost full guide (CAUTION there is no audio in/out)

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/mac-os-x-guides/9156-mac
-os-x-dell-mini-10v-how-video.html


And if you just can't let go of windows, here is a dualboot guide

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/mac-os-x-guides/8495-dua
l-boot-win-7-osx-guide.html

Posted 8 months ago

By CyberBiker

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The Mini 9 is available for the next couple of days for as little as $199.

http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/mini_laptop_deals/fs.aspx
?refid=mini_laptop_deals&s=dhs&cs=19

CB

Posted 7 months ago

By Kerensky97

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Yeah, but the $199 version only comes with 4GB of SSD storage. My Phone has a MicroSD card that has double that. With movies, music and everything I think it would be difficult to get by with anything less than 30GB for basic usage. So you're starting at $299, at that price point alot of other netbooks are just as nice.

Posted 7 months ago

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