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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (910)	5/22/2012 5:36:50 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	of 1550

Oh, are you able to download apps from the Mac App Store on the Hack? Was trying to buy Lion a special case, or does it prevent you from DL'ing anything from there? As far as Apple is concerned, my hacks are Macs, in every way except Software Update. Instead of just letting the hack Software Update automatically, I have to go to Apple.com, download each published update manually, then install it. Doing it automatically bricks my hacks. Not a huge pain. Matter of a few extra clicks. Well worth the hundreds of $ saved. And, I was trying to download the Lion via my Apple Care boosted MacBook Pro. That is why I got all steamed up. I can understand a block for a hack, but not for a genuine, paid up Apple fanboi MacBook Pro user since the 512Ke came out, like myself. Still pisses me off. Grrr. Speaking of which, Apple's Lee has not gotten back to me today. Wonder why. ;-)

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To: Lahcim Leinad who wrote (916)	5/24/2012 12:57:39 PM
From: J.F. Sebastian	of 1550

Had some serious problems in the bios confuguration part. Could not get the keyboard to work, in the most basic guts of bios. Ouch, how do you troubleshoot a computer if the keyboard doesn't work? What was the operator error you ran into? I'm keeping my primary drive a Snow Leopard one. Best of both worlds! :) I had considered keeping Snow Leopard in a virtual machine after upgrading to Lion (which I haven't done yet), but apparently the process isn't easy. Parallels won't do it without a lot of hoops to jump through and I haven't tried VirtualBox for it. I decided it was best just to leave all my PPC apps behind when the time comes and move ahead without Snow Leopard.

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To: J.F. Sebastian who wrote (918)	5/24/2012 1:39:58 PM
From: Lahcim Leinad	of 1550

Ouch, how do you troubleshoot a computer if the keyboard doesn't work? What was the operator error you ran into? The keyboard didn't work only when I tried to select the hackintoshed install flash card. (F12 upon boot). So I read up on it this morning, booted into bios via the delete key, and activated the keyboard, which was turned off. After that, back into F12, selected the hackintoshed Lion stick and bingo. I had considered keeping Snow Leopard in a virtual machine after upgrading to Lion (which I haven't done yet), but apparently the process isn't easy. Parallels won't do it without a lot of hoops to jump through and I haven't tried VirtualBox for it. I wanted to run SL via Parallels on my Lion MBP but it won't do it at all, with a standard Snow Leopard. Have to own a physical copy of the server version, with is amazingly expensive. I decided it was best just to leave all my PPC apps behind when the time comes and move ahead without Snow Leopard. That's the way it is with my MBP. All Lion, all the time. But, glad I still have the Dell Mini 9 and the large hack running Snow Leopard. Couldn't scan or print otherwise. Lion does not play ball with my Canon printer/scanner.

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