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Maximizing your battery’s life cycle

Thomas — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:24:50 +0000

Admit it: the Inspiron 1525 is an aging laptop. For many of you, it’s probably pushing its third year. Laptop batteries, much like most Dell laptops, only have a 1-year life expectancy. After that first year, their capacity begins to slowly decrease. For anyone still using the original battery, I laud you; mine stopped holding [...]

Hardware Mod: Upgrading your Wireless Card- How To

Thomas — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:05:30 +0000

**This is Part 2 of the “Upgrading your Wireless Card” guide and is continued from part 1. Part 1 explains the benefits of upgrading your wireless card while part 2 is simply a How To.** This post was delayed by about 10 months due to forgetfulness and procrastination. My apologies for the delay, though I believe many [...]

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

Thomas — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:52:50 +0000

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

Hardware Mod: Spray painting my Inspiron 1525 bezel black

Thomas — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:14:40 +0000

Recently, user Alexander Brown decided to mod his 1525 by painting his 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 did it out behind my apartment complex), and 12 hours of drying later, I had a black [...]

Dell Inspiron 1525 Snow Leopard Hackintosh/Hackbook Pro Installation Guide!

Thomas — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:52:32 +0000

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 also be installed on your PC. Fortunately, this OS is quite easy to install (much easier than Leopard) and, for the first time on the 1525, we will be booting a [...]

OS X 10.5.8 Installation Guide

Alex — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:23:02 +0000

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 [...]

How to Remove a Dell Inspiron 1525 Keyboard

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:55:31 +0000

Since most of the people visiting this site are probably rocking an Inspiron 1525, I figured we should write some hardware-related stuff. Having OS X running on non-apple hardware means nothing if your hardware doesn’t work. One of my gripes with the 1525 is that the keyboard is prone to getting dirty; the keys almost [...]

Taking advantage of that expensive warranty

Thomas — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:33:17 +0000

***Just note that this only applies to users who purchased their computer and warranty directly from Dell. If you bought it from BestBuy or some other store, stay away because their policies may be different. It also helps if your warranty includes in-home service so that you can be up and running again in 30 [...]

Improving HackBook Battery Life

Richard — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:21:46 +0000

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 [...]

Dell HackBook Media Keys Working

Richard — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:56:43 +0000

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 [...]

The Hack Is Back!

Richard — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:07:52 +0000

The tie-wearing idiots over at Best Buy’s Geek Squad finally received my Dell Inspiron 1525 back from warranty. The guy who examined it after it arrived was very surprised that they replaced the whole LCD screen. He opened it up as he was explaining how rare it was for them to replace the whole thing. [...]

Inspiron LCD Gone Bad

Richard — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:08:20 +0000

Why did it have to happen to me? An issue I can’t resolve — broken hardware. I woke up this morning, opened my laptop and bam… heard a strange sizzling noise for about 2 seconds, then my screen went blank. “Strange,” I thought. I figured it had something to do with rouge permissions or Power [...]

Dell Inspiron 1525 Hackintosh/HackBook Pro Tutorial!

Richard — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:29:29 +0000

**This post is outdated. Use this guide to install Snow Leopard** (At the time of writing, 10.5.4 is the latest version of Mac OS X) I’ve done it, and I absolutely love it for more reasons than one. Now I’m going to show you how it’s done so you too can have your own Inspiron [...]

Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro — AMAZING!

Richard — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:42:49 +0000

I bought another laptop at Best Buy after giving my garnet red Gateway to the (idiot) Geek Squad. Want to return a computer to Best Buy? Just say the screen flickers. They’re not going to spend an hour waiting for the momentious occacioun that your laptop actually has an issue. They’re too busy collecting huge [...]