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Member #4,569 · 2009-01-31 → 2009-08-05
#421 by Dispatches #387 by Author Reads #1,007 by Thread Reach Member #4,569 📍 United Kingdom Dell Inspiron / Latitude ATI Radeon AMD OSx86

@ScottXK

InfiniteMac community contributor with 18 recorded dispatches, 3 lead technical dossiers (28,661 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 545,331 historical readers.

Dispatches 18 Ranked #421 of 6,691
Author Reads 28,661 Ranked #387 · 3 dossiers
Thread Reach 545,331 Ranked #1,007 in reach
Lead Dossiers 3 9,554 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #4,569 Joined 2009-01-31
Active Window 2009 2009-01-31 → 2009-08-05
Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig
Twitter//@ScottNicol - AIM/scottosx
Archive Standing
#421 of 6,691 by Dispatches (18 notes) · #387 of 3,454 by Author Readership (28,661 reads across 3 dossiers) · #1,007 by Thread Reach (545,331 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #4,569 · Joined 2009-01-31
Location
United Kingdom
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Dell Inspiron / Latitude (2) · ATI Radeon (2) · AMD OSx86 (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@Taisto (6) @nfoav8or (6) @naquaada (5) @lanceomni (5) @cmdshft (4) @FirstHackTosh (4) @zephyroth (3) @throttlemeister (3) @R0GUE (3) @axhi (3) @aquanutz (2) @RetroRen (2) @Voyn1x (2) @Ali C. (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 5 technical boards

10.X Core
12 (67%)
General
1 (6%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @ScottXK (3)

28,661 cumulative reads on threads started by @ScottXK

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Best Notebook For Leopard
I'm looking for a sub-£400 notebook which will run Leopard fully. I do like the new Dell 15" Inspiron's. I'm unsure if there are any support for the Intel® Cantiga GM45 Chipset & Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD (I'm…
10.X Core14,395 reads
2009-08-05 · 8 notes
ATi Radeon X1270
Is it possible to get the ATi Radeon X1270 graphics chipset to work? It is based on shared memory and its device ID is 0x791f if I remember correctly, I haven't tried some packages like Callisto, as last time I did, I couldn't boot OSX. If…
10.X Core7,474 reads
2009-02-10 · 6 notes
ATi Radeon X1270
my first post here, being a designer I have to say that the skin looks very sexy, much nicer than any other forum skins I have seen . Anyways to the point, I just wanted to ask if anyone had any success stories/know any ways to use an…
10.X Core6,792 reads
2009-01-31 · 2 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (15)

Direct links into threads where @ScottXK contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC X-DL 10.5.6 Release
“Very nice, well done on the release. Shame that my Laptop kext (X1270) just is being a royal pain. LiveDVD part is great too, thanks for all the work!”
10.X Core2009-02-08
274,027 dossier reads
ATI Video Kexts
“I've been reading up on graphics chipsets and have gone through a metric ton of threads and posts about X12x0 cards. Type: Display Bus: PCI VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: ATI (0x1002) Device ID: 0x791f Revision ID: 0x0000 Kernel Extension Inf…”
Software & Kexts2009-04-15
65,728 dossier reads
ATI Video Kexts
“If it is possible to get a kext working for the X1270, it's RS690 based, uses shared memory, and has a dev ID of 0x791f. It reports that there are no kexts loaded. I only have a selection of 1024x768, and editing boot.plist and using "Graph…”
Software & Kexts2009-02-10
65,728 dossier reads
Snow Leopard Developer Preview & AMD
“I'm downloading the WWDC build, and I'll be installing it on a spare HD of mine. I'll keep you all updated .”
Snow Leopard 10.62009-06-10
60,715 dossier reads
Is this how the OSx86 scene is going
“I like forums where everyone's post is heard, I think that the scale of InsanelyMac is too big for the staff to control, and that it is too in some ways complicated. Although, the only thing I really see at InsanelyMac is an archive of inst…”
10.X Core2009-02-08
36,845 dossier reads
Hack of the Clones: Why Apple Can't Stop the Copies
“As an individual, you are not doing (that) much harm to a company the size of Apple, when you however are making money of another company's pride & joy, thats when things turn nasty, especially when the OS has been evolving over 20+ years a…”
Releases & News2009-02-09
26,137 dossier reads
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
“I've still got my eye on a 9" Acer Aspire One, the 120GB version. Seems very nice, and OSX would work on it, with a lot of effort.”
10.X Core2009-02-10
19,695 dossier reads
MacBook Wheel Announced- The Onion
“I love The Onion, they are great, everything seemed so real and I believed it when I first watched it a few weeks ago!”
10.X Core2009-02-08
10,664 dossier reads
Malicious Trojan Virus in pirated iWork
“I downloaded the trial, from the Apple site, I only need it for my Science coursework .”
10.X Core2009-02-09
8,752 dossier reads
ATi Radeon X1270
“My last attempt: I'm installing it again now. Everything else works but video. I can do a full re-install in 10 minutes, so I'm not too fussed if I break it. I'll try anything, so please help!”
10.X Core2009-05-31
7,474 dossier reads
ATi Radeon X1270
“I tried the ATIinject, my install is no longer bootable, I did some permission fixes, but that didn't help. @aquanutz - I have tried that already, in fact it was the first thing I did .”
10.X Core2009-02-12
7,474 dossier reads
ATi Radeon X1270
“Nothing? All I really need is the resolution, I don't need and QE/CI/OpenGL. I added 0x791f1002 to my ATIRADEONX1000.kext it never worked, would I have to edit any other kexts?”
10.X Core2009-02-11
7,474 dossier reads
µTorrent Mac Beta Released
“they recommend utorrent, so not certain... Yeah, the recommend the Windows 1.7.x/1.8.x builds as they have been 'allowed' for use. PM/Email the admins there and ask for the Mac uTorrent Beta to be allowed, he/she will need its Peer ID (I th…”
Software & Kexts2009-02-09
7,325 dossier reads
OSX runs better than Windows 7
“Come on, the only difference between a Apple PC and a DELL PC is "the case" ... I agree, ever since Apple went to the x86 architecture that really bridged the gap between normal PC's and Mac's. All of the guts are basically the same, only r…”
General2009-02-08
6,782 dossier reads
Best Notebook For Leopard
“Thanks. Any specific notebook models that are known to work nicely?”
10.X Core2009-08-05
14,395 dossier reads