Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 Ah ok ... still not a major problem though.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 Will definitely get a 6 cell when available. Thankfully the Advent is black underneath, so the standard black 6 cell should look fine! P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 Should the MSI battery work fine? Or do you need the specific Advent one? Oh and joke I read earlier ... "I just broke my WIND .... I can smell it!"
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 The advent is an identical device, so it'll work fine. P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 Oooh Ive just found that two of the not-so-near PC world stores have it in stock ... do I want to drive for an hour to go and get one!
Guest J273 Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 Mine should be here this afternoon, on second DHL drop :D Got my 1GB RAM upgrade, 160GB HDD and OSX install disk ready to go :( P Where did you get your ram from Paul? Better still do you have a link to the exact stuff? Thanks
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 3, 2008 Report Posted July 3, 2008 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119282 :D Will post more tomorrow, but I now have OSX on my Advent Wind :( Working: - 10.5.4 Vanilla Kernel - Accelerated graphics - Ethernet - Webcam - USB - Card reader - Sleep - Bluetooth Not working: - Wifi (working on this) I had WiFi working great with the Broadcom card from my wife's laptop, but she didn't see the funny side of me 'borrowing' it :o I've ordered a dell broadcom based card on eBay for 12.99, but would prefer to get the inbuilt WiFi working. I have upgraded to 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD (same model line as the original). There is NO warranty sticker on the Advent, and i've also updated to the latest (MSI!) BIOS. Once WiFi is working, this is gonna be one sweet little portable OSX machine! Looking forward to the 6 cell battery tho :lol: P
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 Bargain: To do: - Get WiFi sorted - Work out if I can swap the alt and windows physical keys on the keyboard to match the mac layout - Work out if I can remove the advent logo from the lid :D P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 Jealous ... much !!! Going to have to get one of these babies!
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 It's not flawless yet, particularly the non working WiFi (with the shipped card), but it's pretty damn sweet! :D P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 I think as soon as someone gets wifi working, then I'll be driving down the M6 and getting one!
Guest J273 Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 do you think its actualy going to be possible to get the wifi working ?
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 Well, I don't know what's involved, so hard to say! P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 From what I have read, there are folks doing all sorts of wrapping up of drivers for OSX. So maybe.
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 There's obviously linux drivers, as there's a linux variant, so that gives us hope I think! P
Guest J273 Posted July 4, 2008 Report Posted July 4, 2008 Another thread to follow http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...113018&st=0
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 7, 2008 Report Posted July 7, 2008 Paul, thanks for your help via email over the weekend. I'm not going to go into a huge rant, as I will get angry again... but PC World screwed up. I drove a round trip of 2 hours to find that they had sold the laptop which I had reserved. Not a happy bunny AT ALL! So much so, that I wrote a very lengthy complaint to them, which I do not expect to be given any attention at all. I'm considering contacting my partner's aunt in Germany, and getting her to ship me the Medion Akoya netbook (at least the wifi works with OSX on that one). Anyway, thanks for the help ... I'll update you all if/when I get one!
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 7, 2008 Report Posted July 7, 2008 Doh! That sucks! :( I've now got processor speed clocking working on mine (deets), swapped the physical alt and windows keys (deets) to match the Apple layout and i'm just trying a new audio kext (deets)! Loving it! :D P
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 7, 2008 Report Posted July 7, 2008 Good work ... still no news on the wifi then?
Guest WearTheFoxHat Posted July 8, 2008 Report Posted July 8, 2008 I've just been pointed at this: http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/655/862/-/582...&P36=8ZNAXB and with this voucher Discount: 5.00 Minimum Spend: £50.00 Promotional Code: CREST081 Expiry: 31/07/2008 Applies to: Everything
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted July 8, 2008 Report Posted July 8, 2008 9" screen FTL! :( Mono likes the look of this tho... Don't forget the 5% off voucher at PCWorld tho :D P
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