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Let me second TCMuffin’s suggestion about replacing the wireless card to one that supports N while you’ve got it open (I always worry about breaking the tabs when I open these). I’ve upgraded to an Airport Extreme card and an Intel X25M SSD. The extra wireless range and speed is very nice and makes the laptop a pretty capable machine.
Another service you could try is gmail’s video chat, which I’ve used both with the N120 under XP and Leopard.
I don’t know how comparable the data is, but here is the disk test only from xbench on Leopard
Results 194.80
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBook4,1
Drive Type INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC
Disk Test 194.80
Sequential 127.47
Uncached Write 120.13 73.76 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 134.13 75.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 86.42 25.29 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 248.15 124.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 412.89
Uncached Write 285.67 30.24 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 246.12 78.79 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1869.95 13.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 629.11 116.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]Interestingly, the delay is the time between seeing the rolling hill normal desktop image and the icons and start menu appearing. Very long time. I do have Zone Alarm for antivirus and the only other programs that are at all similar (but not set to autorun I believe) are CCleaner and Malwarebytes Antimalware.
Update: tried another user account and it was definitely faster. I’ll try to delete and then redo another user.
Faktados, sorry to hear about your problems with the Airport card. If the refund doesn’t go through, it does work well (I have one in mine) but for Windows, you have to use the Dell Driver and manually install it. I can find the driver link if you need it. Leopard automatically recognizes it because of the Broadcom chipset.
I’m looking at the Intel X25M but if the SATA bottlenecks the speed, maybe one of those Kingston V+ series SSDs would be good.
Actually it has two 2.66 GHz dual core Intel Xeon 5150 processors. Oh well, I guess I’ll hold onto the card for now.
July 2009. Now I have a card I can’t use (also have a Dell Mini 9), but may try it in my MacPro just for giggles.
I have a blue N120 (NP-N120-KA03US) and I do not have the second PCIe slot. This is the model at BestBuy so to save you some possible frustration of opening the case and not being able to install the decoder, check through the vents if you bought yours at BB, you probably don’t have the necessary slot.
I would think so, especially with Windows. I put on of them in an Acer Aspire One and used the Intel WIreless Utility to connect. Personally, I found that the Airport Extreme cards on eBay (Broadcom) work well and that’s what I have in my N120 now. I like them because they work with two antennae and I can run Leopard on it (although I don’t currently).
If you do go that route, installation of the driver is a little unusual, so let me know if there are any problems. I saved the instructions somewhere.
You can also use the freeware GParted. That’s what I used for mine to make one large C drive. When you boot back to XP it will run diskutil but should recognize the extra space after that
Make sure you get two DVD’s, as mine only came with one (not the OS). I did call Samsung, and they were very helpful and are sending me the missing DVD. Mine must have been left at BestBuy. I hate it that they open the computers and mess with them before you buy them.
After you restore, you could use GParted to combine the two Windows partitions into a single one.
This is beyond me but I have UNR 9.04 on my N120 and things seem to work *I did change the wireless to an Airport Extreme card with a Broadcom chipset. Is there something I can do on mine to help with your problem?
This is great! I had found a previous solution that increased the brightness 100% on booting to Ubuntu, but it wouldn’t adjust. Your solution works for me with two problems
1. Hiitting the function + up or down arrow to make it more bright or dim makes the bar keep sliding until I hit a horizontal arrow key to stop it.
2. Once I use the keys to change brightness, my keyboard doesn’t work. The keypad does though so I can click out of what I’m doing.I don’t know if this has to do with the previous fix I used or this one. But I’ll keep trying to figure this out.
