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Member #23,654 · 2010-02-08 → 2010-03-18
#1,396 by Dispatches #826 by Author Reads #907 by Thread Reach Member #23,654 ASUS P5K / P5Q Dell Inspiron / Latitude NVIDIA GeForce

@ellnic

InfiniteMac community contributor with 5 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (13,849 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 620,022 historical readers.

Dispatches 5 Ranked #1,396 of 6,691
Author Reads 13,849 Ranked #826 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 620,022 Ranked #907 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 13,849 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #23,654 Joined 2010-02-08
Active Window 2010 2010-02-08 → 2010-03-18
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
ASUS N50VC FP008C - Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz - 15.4 " - 4 GB Ram - 320 GB HDD However, I got clicking on better things (as often happens) and am looking at a Dell Studio 15 (1558) with the Intel Core i5-430M.
Archive Standing
#1,396 of 6,691 by Dispatches (5 notes) · #826 of 3,454 by Author Readership (13,849 reads across 1 dossiers) · #907 by Thread Reach (620,022 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #23,654 · Joined 2010-02-08
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ASUS P5K / P5Q (2) · Dell Inspiron / Latitude (2) · NVIDIA GeForce (1) · ATI Radeon (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

10.X Core
5 (100%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @ellnic (1)

13,849 cumulative reads on threads started by @ellnic

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on Dell Studio 1558 Core i5-430m
Thought I would start this Thread as there's no mention of the i5-430m. Been doing a lot of thinking today (after originally looking at an ASUS K50IN) and have decided that something with a little more oomph is required. I took a look at…
10.X Core13,849 reads
2010-02-09 · 4 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (4)

Direct links into threads where @ellnic contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Asus K50IN
“Ah ha - This may be better - Will have to check out the spec in more details… ASUS N50VC FP008C - Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz - 15.4 " - 4 GB Ram - 320 GB HDD Anyone got any ideas? Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 / 2.4 GHz Mobile Intel PM45 Express NVIDIA Ge…”
10.X Core2010-02-08
606,173 dossier reads
Asus K50IN
“Thanks for the reply. Sounds like this may be worth a go I have an original 10.6 DVD - From what I have read, this will work with the Asus Boot CD? Or is it preferred to have the one by Hazard? I wouldn't use VGA out - but wireless could be…”
10.X Core2010-02-08
606,173 dossier reads
Asus K50IN
“I am a newbie to this forum so this is my first post. I have been a long established Apple user and love Mac OS X, but have been considering a Hackintosh recently. I have been searching around for the K50IN and have come accross this: K50IN…”
10.X Core2010-02-08
606,173 dossier reads
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on Dell Studio 1558 Core i5-430m
“Thanks for the reply. I actually ended up with a Studio XPS 1645 in the end. It's a core i7-720QM running on a PM55 chipset and funnily enough... is running the Vanilla Kernel. I am active on the tonymacx86 forums as we speak - check it out…”
10.X Core2010-03-18
13,849 dossier reads