Tag Archive | "1525"

Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

That's right, I've added a second Hard Drive. But you've got to read on to find out how.

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Hardware Mod: Spray painting my Inspiron 1525 bezel black

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Recently, user Alexander Brown decided to mod his 1525 by painting his bezel black. I have just made my 1525 look more like a MacBook Pro. I painted the bezel black! Intrigued by this, I decided to follow Alexander’s example and paint my bezel black also. 4 coats of spray paint, one angry neighbor (I [...]

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Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide

Friday, September 4, 2009

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*Many thanks to John Demented for all his help and patience when trying to get me running Snow Leopard* Snow Leopard, Apple’s next OS in their lineup after Leopard, was recently released. Thanks to the widespread hackintosh development of Leopard, Snow Leopard can be installed on your PC just a few short days after it [...]

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OS X 10.5.8 Installation Guide

Monday, August 10, 2009

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The first time I tried installing 10.5.8, my keyboard and trackpad didn’t work. I reinstalled OS X, and tried again. My keyboard and trackpad worked fine after the update. When Thomas updated, he kept getting kernel panics until he booted into safe-mode (-x) and installed the audio drivers. Just goes to show that this can be [...]

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Improving HackBook Battery Life

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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After playing around tonight getting the battery meter and speed step working on XxX 10.5.6, I decided to unplug for the first time and see how long my battery life is. I’m not exactly sure how powerful the battery is in my Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook. Honestly, when I bought the computer I was shopping [...]

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Dell HackBook Media Keys Working

Friday, March 13, 2009

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After reading up on some information from Google and InsanelyMac, I decided to take a dive into getting the media keys working myself and now I’m writing about my success and how you too can get s to play nice with your touch sensitive media keys on the Dell Inspiron 1525. For this tutorial, we’re [...]

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Near Perfect Audio With Latest AppleHDA

Thursday, March 12, 2009

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So there have been many updates to the audio since the 1525_codec and the AppleHDAPatcher that were included in the ever-so-popular drivers pack. Since then the Internal Microphone has been enabled as well as the External Microphone, switching to both the left and right headphone jacks for headphone use (just not both at the same [...]

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