Can I find 100 Dell Mini 10v hackintosh owners on the Internet?

Let me try.

1. Me of course.
   

Blog posts by Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh Owners

2. John Herrman
3. MacG
4. reydemia
5. ItWasLuck3
6. aegis

Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh Videos on Youtube

7. mfolquet
8. teckhean
9. jaraeez
10. mrwaltwittman
11. svitale75
12. Tychy73
13. williamli
14. matthewsalvo
15. masarijones
16. scififan68
17. jlpedreirav
18. anguish79
19. almograve
20. nervis67
21. boagworld
22. gadgetcompass
23. orangutan2006
24. jkbellenir
25. mobkon

Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh Photos on Flickr

26. heavy_g
27. lucy…
28. stevenloveskatie
29. iAmBeer
30. JoshHarrow
31. ByteMarks
32. joestump
33. pavlovsbob
34. mills70
35. nervousonion
36. suiyee

Dell Mini 10v Mac OS X Forum

Oops! I still need another 64 Dell Mini 10v hackintosh owners. I’m sure there must be at least 64 Dell Mini 10v hackintosh owners in http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-10v-mac-os-x-discussion/.

Are you a Dell Mini 10v hackintosh owner too?

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Dell Mini 10v hackintosh connected to a Dell 22″ LCD Monitor running at 1680×1050. The desktop is extended to the external display. I read somewhere that using mirror mode with an external display may crash the Dell Mini 10v hackintosh. I didn’t try it.

Connected to a Philips 42″ LCD TV at 1360×768. It’s beautiful.

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I received my Dell Mini 10v yesterday afternoon. After getting it out of the box and taking some photos, I quickly started charging the laptop battery while installing Snow Leopard on the laptop. Dell’s instructions is to charge the battery for at least 12 hours before using the laptop on battery power.

Not so smooth installation process

I had expected a simple and straightforward installation, but it wasn’t so. There were some installation hiccups along the way and I had to retry the installation a couple of times before I managed to install Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 10v. It wasn’t a smooth installation process because I was in a hurry and didn’t prepare a proper checklist.

Here’s the list of things that went wrong.

• First, I forgot to run Disk Utility and reformat the laptop hard disk before starting the installation process. I had to back track to Disk Utility when I couldn’t continue the installation  because no suitable hard disk was found. The Dell Mini 10v came with 3 partitions on its hard disk. In my first attempt to erase the 3 partitions using Disk Utility, I got a spinning beach ball that refuse to go away. I had to power off the laptop and restart the installation process.
• Second, I forgot to downgrade the Dell Mini 10v Bios version A06 to version A04. On my next second and third installation attempt, the installation process would stop halfway with a dialog telling me to reboot the laptop. After a couple of reboots, I remember reading about the need to downgrade the Mini 10v Bios to version A04 before installing Mac OS X. After downgrading the Bios to version A04, the installation completed without any problem.
• Third, after the installation completed, I powered off the laptop while it was rebooting. I felt it was taking too long and assumed that it had frozen. When the laptop booted up for the first time, I didn’t see the Mac OS X welcome video when the Snow Leopard desktop came up.

Mini Mac up and running

After a bumpy installation process, I now have Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on my Dell Mini 10v. I am named the laptop minimac, short for Dell Mini Mac 10v. I also made a Time Machine backup of the laptop once it was up and running.

Above is a screenshot of this website taken on my Dell Mini Mac 10v.

I will write more about my first impressions of the Mini Mac later.

dell mini 10v, hackintosh installation

Just got a call this morning from Dell to inform me that my Dell Mini 10v is arriving tomorrow. I had expected it to arrive at the end of this month, but it’s reaching me 6 days (or 4 working days) earlier. Well done Dell! Looks like my earlier estimate of getting my Dell Mini 10v within a week after ordering it online  wasn’t too optimistic after all.

I’m really looking forward to getting it hackintosh’ed by tomorrow.

Come back soon for my take on the hackintosh installation process and first impression on the Dell Mini ‘Mac’ 10v hackintosh laptop.

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After making the decision to get a Dell Mini 10v as my hackintosh laptop, I had another decision make. What color should I choose? The Dell Mini 10v came in seven different colors. I went through the seven colors and below were my responses.

1. Obsidian Black – Glossy black looks boring.
2. Alpine White – Will probably get dirty easily just like my existing white Macbook. My Macbook palm rest area has turned gray permanently.
3. Pretty Pink – My 5-year-old niece tells me that pink is for girls.
4. Jade Green – Hmm… green… this looks nice.
5. Cherry Red – Red looks good. I like it.
6. Passion Purple – Purple is too loud for me.
7. Ice Blue – Blue seems plain and boring too.

So, I was down to two colors for my Mini 10v. Do I want a green ‘apple’ or a red ‘apple’? I was leaning towards Cherry Red. So, instead of deciding, I asked my wife. She said the color ‘Green’ is good for your eyes. I’m not sure how much truth is in her statement, but, that’s how I decided to get the Jade Green Dell Mini 10v.

Cherry Red Dell Mini 10v - First runner up.

Jade Green Dell Mini 10v - The Winner

Do you have a Dell Mini 10v too? What color did you choose and why?

cherry red, dell mini 10v, jade green

While waiting for my Dell Mini 10v to arrive, I’ve already completed my research on how to install Mac OS X ‘Snow Leopard’ on it.

Here’s the list of items required for installing ‘Snow Leopard’ on the Dell Mini 10v.

1. netbook-installer
2. Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ retail DVD
3. 8GB USB thumb drive
4. An existing Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 machine
5. Dell Mini 10v Bios version A04. Get this from dell support site.

The thumb drive is used as the installation dongle according to the netbook-installer’s how-to guide.  A Mac OS X machine is required to create the installation dongle. I’ll be using my current MacBook for that purpose. The steps looks simple enough. It should a straight forward installation when the laptop arrives.

The Dell Mini 10v ships with Bios version A06. This will cause the Snow Leopard installation to stop midway with a message to reboot the laptop. This message will reappear again during the installation process after rebooting the laptop, unless you downgrade the Bios to version A04.

Do you have a hackintosh laptop? What installation method did you use?

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Dell Mini 10v running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Everything works! Wifi, bluetooth, audio, microphone, webcam, ethernet, SD card reader, sleep and touchpad, it all works.

Dell Mini 10v with 2GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.5.8. The laptop performance is excellent.

These two videos has convinced me to get a Dell Mini 10v as my hackintosh laptop.

Did you buy a non-Apple laptop on purpose to install Mac OS X? What made you choose that laptop model?

Read about my Dell Mini 10v Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation experience.

dell mini 10v, hackintosh videos, youtube

Today is 17th September 2009. My Dell Mini 10v will be coming in 14 days time. That’s a total of 15 days from the day (15th Sept) I ordered in on the Internet. Looks like my earlier estimate of getting my Dell Mini 10v next week was too optimistic. I was actually secretly hoping that Dell was super efficient and the notebook will be at my doorstep tomorrow before the weekend. Anyway, the reason for the super long delivery date is the 2 days Eid ul-Fitr holidays on the 21st and 22nd Sept, aka the Hari Raya Puasa holidays in Malaysia.

Dell delivery estimate of 5 to 7 working days (not counting weekends and public holidays) will get me my notebook on 30th September. I forgot all about delivery estimates is by working days until I re-read the order confirmation email. Grrr… That means I have to wait 2 weeks for my hackintosh laptop to arrive.

Did you buy a laptop online? How long did it take to arrive?

dell delivery, dell mini 10v

I’ve just ordered a Dell Mini 10v yesterday. Dell says it’ll take 5-8 days to arrive, which means, it’ll arrive sometime next week. I can’t wait to get it and install it with Mac OS X. I ordered the Dell Mini 10v with a 1.66GHz Atom CPU, 1 GB RAM, 160GB HDD, the Jade Green color kit and the 802.11n wifi card.

This blog will be about my hackintosh laptop experience. I’ve always enjoyed tinkering with computers. It will be fun to play around with the Dell Mini 10v and the various OS (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android) that will run on it.

My soon-to-arrive Dell Mini 10v will be the second laptop I’m attempting to install Mac OS X on. In my previous attempt, I tried it on my old Dell Inspiron 700m but gave up when I couldn’t find any Mac OS X drivers for the built-in Intel wifi adapter.

My current notebook is a first generation Intel MacBook with the 1.8GHz Core Duo CPU, 2GB RAM and a 320GB HDD (self upgraded). The Dell Mini 10v will be my secondary notebook. I’ll be using it when I’m on the move and when I’m on the couch or in bed. The small and light form factor should be great for surfing the web, checking mail or reading e-books.

Are you also a hackintosh laptop user? How’s your experience with your hackintosh laptop so far?

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