Tag Archive | "inspiron 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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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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How to Remove a Dell Inspiron 1525 Keyboard

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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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 [...]

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DailyBlogged/Inspiron 1525 Chameleon Theme

Saturday, May 2, 2009

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After finally getting my laptop back from Dell’s repair depot and having time to settle back down, I decided to get to the long awaited task of developing Chameleon themes. Before I get into everything,  let me just say that this is my first theme so don’t be too critical. Anyway, for my first one [...]

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An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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Today, when I left my newly installed and configured HackBook (running XxX 10.5.6) downstairs for awhile, the display went to sleep. I thought nothing of it of course. I closed the lid and took it upstairs. When I opened the lid, it gave me the boot prompt. “Strange,” I thought, and when I pressed enter [...]

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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 Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro Tutorial!

Monday, July 21, 2008

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**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 [...]

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