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Hi all, and am grateful to be able to join all of you Samsung users, it seems there is a little bit of Apple within each of you having chosen a Samsung – about the most expensive NB but probably the highest quality available.
I have read on the web that OSX can be installed on a netbook (or I guess any intel-based laptop for that matter). Has anyone tried this on their Samsung, and if so, what were your results? What I saw was that it can be done, but using OSX will disable wireless capability… ;(
Anyway, what I am trying to accomplish would be to install OSX, perhaps by partitioning the HD into 2 sections, and use OSX when I am not online surfing, and then be able to re-start into the XP partition when I need to use the web.
I use a pc at work and am familiar, if not an expert with it, but much prefer the mac OSX environment (who wouldn’t?) but am tired of waiting for apple to announce whether it is actually going to offer a NB. My guess is that even if apple does offer one, it will be too pricey for me, at a sony-esque cost of $800 – $ 900, so as not to cannibalize their macbook sales on top, or the ipod touch/iphone sales below.
Does any of this make sense to you veterans? Can what I seek be accomplished?
We aren’t really supposed to talk about running OSX on our machines on this forum.
However I’ll say that OSX runs well on the NC10 and should run the same on the N120. You may want to consider swapping the WiFi card as it makes everything a lot easier, see this thread for one of the options.
And maybe take a look at the Mystiquemac forum.
Hi rhodescholar, yeah I wanted to discourage talk of illigitimate Operating systems on the forum.
There are some great mac forums around, Alf mentions one, insanlymac have some Samsung threads.
I’m cool with general questions and tips but I’d prefer peeps didn’t talk about how to get hold of it or install it specifically.
This is a small site and I’d rather not have to hire a lawyer ;)!Thanks for understanding.
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I have said wifi card if u want to pm me.
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Interesting, how have you found the Dell 1505/Apple Airport Wireless-N 300M card?
Have you tried it under Windows XP, as I have the drivers but never tried it?[quote1243960555=jez]I’m cool with general questions and tips but I’d prefer peeps didn’t talk about how to get hold of it or install it specifically.[/quote1243960555]
I’ll try and refrain form mentioning that I purchased my copy from an Apple store and installed it by putting the disk in an external DVD drive. 😛Well ok it needed a memory stick with a special bootloader/some other software as well…
i have the 4965agn cards. have one installed in my acer one running osx. was going to go dual boot but xp does not see the card as there locked to apple. they do work peachy though. bought a batch of 10 on fleebay a while back cos there was no songle units and have two left.
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i have the 4965agn cards. have one installed in my acer one running osx. was going to go dual boot but xp does not see the card as there locked to apple. they do work peachy though. bought a batch of 10 on fleebay a while back cos there was no songle units and have two left.
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It’s strange that it doesn’t work under XP I thought the only restriction on some WiFi cards was that they didn’t work in some machines. Apple even provides Windows drivers for the wireless cards they use. Well the ones in Intel Macs.The card which I have is the Apple branded Airport Wireless-N 300M which is really a Broadcom BCM94321MC, it works fine under OSX, Linux and Vista, and it supposedly will work under XP when using some drivers from Dell (or I guess the Bootcamp ones off the Leopard install disk).
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