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Old 06-15-2009, 11:39 PM
smmcintyre smmcintyre is offline
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Thumbs up Lawless PPC - OSX Now working on Phenom

After trying every other distro (Kalaway - Ideneb - iPC) all I have to say is:

SOLID! All I have to say. I have a HP Pavilion Phenom x4 (6gb RAM Nvidia 7800gtxll (Everything worked out-of-the box. Select ALx888 Audio (6 port w digital). Only issue I had was with the Network. I used the iPC install disk and selected only the Network driver for my box as soon as I did and Ran OSXPC Tools (Touch\Permissions) the network was detected.

The Good:

Solid Release - Easy to install - Chameleon boot for DVD (reccomend to keep around just for a good boot disk incase your MBR for any machine\OS get hosed. The Quad Core Phenom stock is exmrely fast on OSX I would close to a Mac Pro Quad Core . Key word Close. Same specs from the Apple Store would have set me back 2500. HP was only 499 + OSX (which I already own on a older G5)

Screen Savers perform very well no lag - movies \ dvd's play well. Most Apps work without issue. Photoshop\Dreameaver CS4 performs better then on Vista\XP no surprise there.

Bemhmarks coming soon

Only issue I am having is with a intermittent Kernel Panic. It seems isolated to either Entourage or VMWare Fusion. Might need to be patched with the AMD binary patcher?

Install Summary

1. Boot CD
2. Utilities - Disk - Partition (in my case 2nd drive) Mac /w Journaling
3. Customize Install Packages - All default except Audio ALx888 and Video NVidia)
4. Boot into OSX
5. No Network detected - put in IPC distro while OSX was running - mounted CDRom - Ran Install - deselected base - selected network driver specific my box..

Next up.. Update to Voodoo 9.5 (based on what I read it should fix my kernel panics that pop up in certain apps)
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