[sravana]

First of all THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I cannot believe how simple it was to follow your directions, installing BIOS A04, making the thumb drive on my iMac, and installing OSX on the 10v using CR3. Kudos all around for your efforts.

I have a couple of questions:

I haven't upgraded beyond 10.6 - am I right that I'll need to run NetbookInstaller after upgrading?

I've had some problems with iTunes 9 on my iMac. Is it recommended to not upgrade it, or does it work? I assume I'll need to run NBI again?

For some reason there is no icon for the HDD on my desktop. Anyone else have this?

It seems to me that Safari on the MBNano is faster than FF on the iMac, fwiw.

This is such a sweet machine - without breaking the bank. Thanks again!!

[Akki]

I run NBI often, keeping up with its versions and when I tinker. I don't think there's any downside to it except for me I have to re do the VoodooHDA kext stuff. Anyway, unless someone corrects me here, I think its probably fine to err on the side of running it.

[JustAMacUser]

Originally Posted by sravana

For some reason there is no icon for the HDD on my desktop. Anyone else have this?

This is normal behaviour for OS X 10.6. In the Finder, click the Finder menu, select Preferences. On the General tab check the "Hard disks" box at the top underneath "Show these items on the desktop".

[tchariya]

FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera.

[sravana]

Originally Posted by Akki

I run NBI often, keeping up with its versions and when I tinker. I don't think there's any downside to it except for me I have to re do the VoodooHDA kext stuff. Anyway, unless someone corrects me here, I think its probably fine to err on the side of running it.

What is VoodooHDA ktext stuff? Is that something I need to know about, or since I just did a clean install with no other hacks, I can forget about it?

So you've upgraded to 10.6.1? How did that go?

Originally Posted by JustAMacUser

This is normal behaviour for OS X 10.6. In the Finder, click the Finder menu, select Preferences. On the General tab check the "Hard disks" box at the top underneath "Show these items on the desktop".

Ah. Thank you so much. I'm obviously still a Mac newbie (I've had the iMac for a year - oops, I wonder if it's too late to get applecare?), and things are going slowly that way.

[Akki]

Originally Posted by sravana

What is VoodooHDA ktext stuff? Is that something I need to know about, or since I just did a clean install with no other hacks, I can forget about it?

It's an audio driver that helps with some speaker/mic issues. The Mini 9 likes it But mostly.... these aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along.

[starkruzr]

Originally Posted by tchariya

FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera.

And Opera is a dog compared to Chromium.

[bmcclure937]

Originally Posted by tchariya

FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera.

Sorry, but you are completely wrong and misleading. Please try to quote sources and prove your point if you are going to post blatantly false information.

This seems to be a matter of your personal opinion that you are expressing, in which case you should say "I like Opera, give it a try"... not "FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera".

On top of that, Opera does not have anywhere close to the extensibility of FireFox and Safari's WebKit will blow Opera away... especially with JavaScript performance. For those who do not care about extensions, I highly recommend Safari over FireFox.

For those who do not care about extensibility and having a quick browser... go ahead and give Opera a try.

[tchariya]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

Sorry, but you are completely wrong and misleading. Please try to quote sources and prove your point if you are going to post blatantly false information.

This seems to be a matter of your personal opinion that you are expressing, in which case you should say "I like Opera, give it a try"... not "FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera".

On top of that, Opera does not have anywhere close to the extensibility of FireFox and Safari's WebKit will blow Opera away... especially with JavaScript performance. For those who do not care about extensions, I highly recommend Safari over FireFox.

For those who do not care about extensibility and having a quick browser... go ahead and give Opera a try.

Hey! I'll restate....

FF and Safari seem slow compared to Opera for just regular multi-tabbing web browsing on my Dell Mini 10v running Leopard.

[tehjord]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

Sorry, but you are completely wrong and misleading. Please try to quote sources and prove your point if you are going to post blatantly false information.

This seems to be a matter of your personal opinion that you are expressing, in which case you should say "I like Opera, give it a try"... not "FF and Safari are slow compared to Opera".

On top of that, Opera does not have anywhere close to the extensibility of FireFox and Safari's WebKit will blow Opera away... especially with JavaScript performance. For those who do not care about extensions, I highly recommend Safari over FireFox.

For those who do not care about extensibility and having a quick browser... go ahead and give Opera a try.

Sorry to tell you but Safari is complete ****, FF with adblock will load most page much faster than safari because it blocks the java/flash ads which takes way to long to load with the atom cpu.

Opera is and has always been very fast, has more feature than safari and is faster.

Safari, well, mac fanboys tends to like it.