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Time: 16 Feb 2009 16:41:47 Category: Projects Post Views: 824 Your say: Add a comment
My current idea on my new personal computer specifications are as follow:

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750
Motherboard: Asus M3N78-VM
RAM: OCZ 2GB (2X1GB) Dual Channel PC2-6400
Casing: Antec NSK 2480 with 380W PSU
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB

For now, I will talk on the reasons that I choose the AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 processor. I used to dislike AMD processor but hey, they have improved over the years and more and more users are turning their attention to AMD processors when building new personal computers.

Price
I must say that I am attracted by the price. Even though AMD performance is still a bit behind Intel when it comes to benchmarking similar processors but it is the price that differentiate both of them. AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 is a dual core processor at 2.7GHz each with Phenom (AMD Quad Core processor) technology and it supports DDR2 RAM at 1066MHz. It comes with a £55 - £65 price tag. With almost the same processor speed, Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 will cost about £100. The latter may be faster but price makes a difference.

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Time: 12 Feb 2009 16:05:43 Category: Projects Post Views: 319 Your say: Add a comment
For those who have not got a clue, I was back in Malaysia for holidays. I just arrived on Tuesday. Since coming back from Malaysia, I have big ideas on customizing my computer. Most probably, I will build one from scratch and first, I will compare the cost of building from scratch to purchasing a ready-made one. My ultimate idea is to create a multimedia personal computer.

I have been browsing yesterday for ideas on multimedia personal computers. Well, you might say that every computer is a multimedia personal computer because it plays music, movies and slideshows. However, a multimedia personal computer will have its own interface similar to the cable TV and you can browse the files on your computer using a remote control. The casing should look similar to a radio unit where the control buttons are at the front.

The price of a ready-made multimedia that I can find starts from £450 pounds. I am not sure whether I will be able to build a similar one cheaper than that by utilising my existing computer’s components. Right now, my mind is on a second hand computer shop around my area. I might be visiting it this weekend and hopefully, the trip to the shop will be fruitful.

Time: 3 Dec 2008 09:44:46 Category: Projects Post Views: 5003 Your say: 1 comment
Nine days after the installation of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 iDeneb v1.3 edition and four days of fiddling around with the drivers and settings, I manage to get the WiFi working. Thanks for the help that I got from InsanelyMac forum. Well, forum is really a good place to look for information. People always have different ideas when come to test a system and different system acts differently too. With the help of community, we will be able to know what works and what does not work for different types of systems. Sadly, there are minority of them tend to provide wrong information. Thus, it will be up to us to know who the ones to be trusted are.

Before you read on:
IO80211family.kext – A modified kext that enable the detection of Atheros WiFi chipsets
Kernel Panic – A message that urge the user to switch off the machine and restart

What I did yesterday was quite similar to my first few attempts. One missing step would be the deletion of system kext cache. I suspect that my system kext cache somehow corrupted during the installation and that affected the installation of IO80211family.kext. However, removing the system kext cache will cause kernel panic and each time I deleted the system kext cache, I got around three to four kernel panics before able to boot into the desktop properly.

I will soon provide a guide with pictures. But before this, I need to make a few experiments to see if there is a shorter way. A rough guide is available HERE.

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