[Slothtyper]

....I searched here but came up with no certain answers. May be ordering a 10V soon for Hackintoshing and I don't want to screw this up. Are the N270 and N280 processors identical in terms of installing OS X? What about the wireless? Should I go with the 1397 (g) card, or the 1510 (g/n)? Thanks!!

[stingray]

It makes no difference for OS X install with the processor, either n270 or n280. I personal have the N280 in my 10v and I'm running 10.6.1

[royf]

Originally Posted by Slothtyper

....I searched here but came up with no certain answers. May be ordering a 10V soon for Hackintoshing and I don't want to screw this up. Are the N270 and N280 processors identical in terms of installing OS X? What about the wireless? Should I go with the 1397 (g) card, or the 1510 (g/n)? Thanks!!

If you want to use it to get online at hotels, coffee shops, etc. when you travel then go with the 1397 (g) card.

[Slothtyper]

Originally Posted by royf

If you want to use it to get online at hotels, coffee shops, etc. when you travel then go with the 1397 (g) card.

Whoa, of course I do.......glad I asked! Thank you both

[Misfit]

why does it matter? The 1510 doesn't work in coffee shops/hotels?

[jdcnosse]

I wouldn't think it would matter...both have G, and the 1510 has N also. Unless the 1397 also has B, and if all the places Slothtyper has visited only have B then it'd matter.

Unless the 1510 doesn't work at all in a OS X install.

[hack1naway]

I was getting ready to write the same ORIGINAL question. I too am trying to decide what options to order on a 10v. Based upon what I read above, it sounds like the N280 is a safe and faster way to go. Anyone know of any reason NOT to order the N280 and stick with the N270? As far as the choice of WiFi cards, does anyone have a definitive answer as to which way to go. I'd much prefer to spend a few extra bucks now and have the faster (n standard) card but of course only if it works with 10.6.1.

[bmcclure937]

The main reason I went with the N270 over the N280 is because the performance gain is minimal. I wanted my netbook to be cheap, and spending another $25 on a CPU to gain .06 GHz more clock speed was senseless to me. Instead, I used that money and upgraded my RAM to 2Gb.

Also, the N280 does not allow the RAM to run at a quicker speed... although the FSB is quicker.

[royf]

Originally Posted by Misfit

why does it matter? The 1510 doesn't work in coffee shops/hotels?

No it doesn't. Not reliably anyway.

Originally Posted by jdcnosse

I wouldn't think it would matter...both have G, and the 1510 has N also. Unless the 1397 also has B, and if all the places Slothtyper has visited only have B then it'd matter. Unless the 1510 doesn't work at all in a OS X install.

Well it does matter, the 1397 does also have B, and no the OS is not the issue here.

Originally Posted by hack1naway

As far as the choice of WiFi cards, does anyone have a definitive answer as to which way to go. I'd much prefer to spend a few extra bucks now and have the faster (n standard) card but of course only if it works with 10.6.1.

Ok, here is your "definitive answer". I have both personal experience with this through dealing with friends 10v's with the 1510 card plus there are a variety of threads on this board from others who have had the same issues. The 1510 card is flaky, to put it nicely. Many times when connecting to a G router the connection from the 1510 card is very slow, times out, drops the connection, etc. The cure for this is to set the router to use channel 11. Then the card seems to work fine. Since many coffee shops, hotels, etc. use G routers and you obviously can't depend on them to use or be willing to switch to channel 11 you will find yourself at very high risk of getting a bad connection. Other than switching the router to channel 11 there doesn't seem to be any other fix for this that I can find. It is very frustrating, and in my opinion is not worth taking the chance. Do what you will, but I wouldn't even consider buying a computer with the 1510 card. Do a search on this board and you will come up with several more threads describing this issue.

[Slothtyper]

Thanks again! This could have been a huge SNAFU!

And I'm not surprised a bit that Dell would do something like this, that's why a asked! My first computer was a 15" Dell Inspiron 8000 which had two optical drives and one could be hot-swapped for a second battery or floppy if needed. Except that the hot-swap software rendered CD burning unusable, the whole point of having two drives in the first place! Only because of a great forum like this did I finally figure it out, deleted the program and all was well. That was ten years ago, but apparently Dell still barely even tests half of this stuff......