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new to the scene. installing on my hp pavilion tx 2000

my cousin talked me into buying a copy of snow leopard and now im stuck... can someone help me from the beginning? here is some details on my notebook. HP Pavilion tx 2000 2048 MBytes of DDR2 RAM AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Tl-60 Socket S1…

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@whoshoyu Published 2009-10-20
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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4,123 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 5 dispatches) · 2009-10-20 – 2009-10-21
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@whoshoyu (2)@Imkantus (2)@thorazine74

my cousin talked me into buying a copy of snow leopard and now im stuck... can someone help me from the beginning? here is some details on my notebook.

HP Pavilion tx 2000
2048 MBytes of DDR2 RAM
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Tl-60
Socket S1 (638)
NVIDIA nForce 410/430 MCP
NVIDIA GeForce 6150 shared memory 768mb

any help getting started would be much appreciated!

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Field Note #2 @thorazine74 2009-10-20 ↳ Re: @whoshoyu
@whoshoyumy cousin talked me into buying a copy of snow leopard and now im stuck... can someone help me from the beginning? here is some details on my notebook. HP Pavilion tx 2000 2048 MBytes of DDR2 RAM AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Tl-60 Socket S1 (638) NVIDIA nForce 410/430 MCP NVIDIA GeForce 6150 shared memory 768mb any help getting started…

I think you should know beforehand that most shared memory nvdia gpus have very bad support if they have any at all (apart from MCP79 series). You will probably find out that you will only get it to work in low res, no resolution change or hardware aceleration at most.

Field Note #3 @Imkantus 2009-10-21

Sure it "works" but this guy has no "graphic acceleration" - just running in the VESA mode - as thorazine74 mentioned above.

This migh be problem if you want to watch HQ videos and things related. If you're just into tasks like text processing and surfing the web, you can ofcourse work properly with it - maybe with some little glitches in the GUI.

Sources & Contributor Provenance (3 credited usernames · Thread #4469)
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@whoshoyuPrimary Author22009-10-20 → 2009-10-21
@ImkantusContributor22009-10-20 → 2009-10-21
@thorazine74Contributor12009-10-20