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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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

DailyBlogged/Inspiron 1525 Chameleon Theme

Thomas — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:25:08 +0000

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 [...]

An Accidental Stroke of Brilliance

Alex — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:10:44 +0000

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 [...]

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 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**This post is outdated.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 [...]