I was very surprised when I first loaded up the boot disk I had obtained as it pretty much took me right into the installer and I was able to run it and start the install almost immediately. VERY impressed was I.
30 minutes later, I was sitting in front of Mac OSX 10.5.4. Wow.. that was incredibly easy! BUT, small issue.. no network card detected.. even though it was there and working fine with Windows XP. This caused a few headaches, but I decided upon reading up at www.insanelymac.com that I would install one of the spare network cards I have and see if that worked.
Blammo.. Internet access here we come!
Now I was ready (and am still in the process of).. customizing all the applications I have obtained.. and the interface.. transferring files from my external hard drive to it, etc.etc. What I like about this part is that you do a lot of learning about the operating system and how it's made, etc.
For example, I am having problems with my sound card. It will recognize it, and play to a certain extent, but only from the right speaker, and the sound is very crackly. I'm still trying to figure out why this is, but I believe it to be a driver issue, and as much as it's easy to install drivers for windows.. I must admit that doing the same for a MAC is a little trickier.
So far however, I must admit.. I love the Mac. It's very graphical which is right up my alley, and I haven't ran into a program which I had for the PC that I wasn't able to get or use on my 'hackintosh'. I thank the people at Lifehacker for their website and their awesome tutorials and findings. Easily my favorite site on the net.
No comments:
Post a Comment