Hi, Im a video editor and was wondering what would I need for Final Cut on a Dell Laptop?

Im with Felix. get me a dual core dell, with discrete graphics that can take a retail Leopard disk to install osx on it for $599, on sale, of course. i want to run Motion, and the Final Cut Studio on it. yes ive got a Octo Mac Desktop, but i cant afford the crazy expensive upper macbook pros. someone please take a 2009 Dell 15in or bigger laptop and do an easy install of leopard for us dreamers, cuz my dell mini 9 osx is never going to run the pro apps, of course i just dont have the kung fu to customize a dell 15 for an easy osx install. can someone out there solve this vexing problem of problems. ive got a hot dell credit card in my pocket waiting for the day???????????

hey. the trial of psystar rebel efi is supposed to be an easy snow leopard install. that is bs of course. the notebook must still have compatible specs, and snow leopard drivers are especially hard to find, compared to leopard. but this wiki lists compatible hardware;

http://wiki.psystar.com/index.php/Laptops

naturally, at present there are no laptops with complete compatibility. but spread the word, and tryout the rebel efi trial on you notebook. post to the wiki if you get a perfect install experience. not likely, but hey, its free??????? who has $1800 for a 15 inch laptop? even if it’s a macster…

just installed mac os10.6 on a mini 10v. Have no sound, no bluetooth and trackpad is not good. other than that, it is great. Also windows wont go to the dock with the double click..

I’ve only got the Bluetooth problem. Anyone knows how to solve it?
Thanks,

Hi, thanks for the great information!
I was wondering if you have had any experience in using garage band on the mini 10v. Is the atom strong enough for minimal audio recording? I’m going to study abroad and I don’t want to risk my macbook pro being stolen.
Thanks!
Michael

I was stunned at how easy my Dell Mini 10v accepted the snow leopard install & how easy it was to prepare & install the required software. Now I’ve got a very nice osx netbook that didn’t cost $1000 ++.

I love that I have true multitasking, flash, a big hdd for storage & I control what I do with my computer & not Apple. So glad I didn’t get caught up in the “iPad” hype. What a rip-off the iPad is when you consider that Apple released a $499 tablet pc with only 14.5gigs of useable storage & if you buy the 32gig model it’s a whopping $800 plus extra’s.

I have some experience with alternate OSs and with laptops, and I have some ideas for y’all.

First, the restrictive screen size shouldn’t be a problem. Get the $300.00 netbook and plug it into a larger monitor of your choice. You can buy good ones, used, with 20 inches for just a few hundred dollars. Your total expense then is still less than a good mac laptop. I’ve read elsewhere that you can bump the effective resolution up to 1680 by whatever this way.

Same thing if keyboard size, mouse/trackpad, and/or Hard Drive size are a problem. Just plug the netbook into the larger peripherals that are available in any computer lab, at home, or at the office. I, for one, won’t do my heavy audio/video editing unless I can sit down with a large monitor for an hour or two at a time anyway. The only question, then, is whether the hardware can handle the demands I would put on it. I’m still looking for the answer to that.

I would want a portable computer in order to be able to save and take the look, settings, files etc. that I use from one workspace to another. But to actually process anything for more than an hour I want to plug into the larger peripherals. Which means that the smaller the portable computer the better, as long as everything works with a non-Windows OS. What would really rawk would be a computer that, when open is the same size as the iPad, and which folds to half the size of an iPad and runs Snow Leapard.

As the original poster pointed out, it all worked for him on the Dell Mini 10v, but he didn’t give details on the workarounds for the sound, network, sleep and trackpad difficulties y’all have encountered. You can find those at http://gizmodo.com/5389166/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-10v-into-the-ultimate-snow-leopard-netbook.

But the question remains, unless the flash videos (I can’t play flash where I am right now) answered it: “Why a Dell Mini 10v instead of some other netbook or notebook?”

I would like to find a laptop not netbook that will run MAC OSX

has anyone used garageband on the Dell mini 10V, or used the usb to connect to an instrument (keyboard, guitar, etc). This would make or break the deal of buying a second hand Dell. Please let me know. thanks.

Hey guys… my old g4 is close to biting the dust! Like someone up there said i refuse to pay over 1G for a machine that will only surf the net check email and minor stuff. So my question is… do the newer dell mini 10’s work as a hackintosh or only the old 10v’s? I would want to get the one with the tv tuner so that i get the higher res display and the pine trail cpu… im pricing one out on dell.com right now and fully loaded with a 32gb ssd 1gig of ram and the high res display i am looking at a bit under 500. For what i do it would rock… so will the new pinetrail work or does it have to be the old 10v? Thanks!