Comments on: My First Impression of Mac OS X Snow Leopard on my Hackintosh Laptop

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:19:28 +0000

I’m afraid 720p mkv video performance isn’t too good.

By: Adil

Adil — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:29:15 +0000

Victor,
Hi, it does not play 720p well on youtube but does it play 720p mkv video files?

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:22:24 +0000

Hi Matt,

I use the 10v mostly for surfing the web, reading digital comics and PDFs. For playing videos, it should handle standard video on youtube without any problem. The screen is just enough to watch 480p videos on youtube. It doesn’t handle 720p videos well.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:48:07 +0000

Victor, how is the performance in OS X with the 10v. Can you use the machine as an everyday machine, and does it play videos (eg youtube, divx)?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:17 +0000

Victor,

Thanks. Judging from the looks of http://www.jrin.net/2009_07_23/how-to-upgrade-dell-mini-10v-memory, I think I might sacrifice ‘N’ in place of 2GB from the start (and save myself the headache). Assuming that either wireless card works equally well.

Cheers.

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:01:17 +0000

Hi Jeff, I have the 1GB model with the wireless N card. Everything works with OS X. Screen resolution is 1024×600; good enough for simple web surfing, email and youtube videos.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:33:36 +0000

Hi,

Interested in doing the same; Dell won’t sell the 2GB model with an ‘N’ card; so might have to get the crappy XP model (1GB/N). In your original video, it said that the wireless is only b/g; which hardware do you have and is it correctly supported by OS X?

How about the hi-res screen option? I looked at the numbers and wondered if that might be too cramped for comfort.

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:47:06 +0000

yeah, i’m still using this setup. i would really love to get myself an ipad. if the ipad was available before i got the dell mini 10v, i may have gone for it instead.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:41:55 +0000

are you still using this setup? my wife loves Mac but wants a netbook sized machine, and the iPad costs way too much for what she wants.

We’re looking at ordering a mini 10v and putting snow leopard onto it…

By: Victor Goh

Victor Goh — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:36:04 +0000

Hi Joe, if your gf is gonna have Word, Excel, Entourage and Safari open at once, I would recommend you upgrade the Mini 10v to 2GB.

On my 1GB Mini 10v, Activity Monitor reports 1.20GB of System Memory used when I run iTunes, Safari with 3 tabs, Opera and Textmate.