The webcam included on my machine is a BisconCam NB Pro 1.3. This camera is supported only by iChat. If you need to use the camera inside other applications like Skype, you will need to install CamTwist. Download and install CamTwist from http://allocinit.com/index.php?title=CamTwist
Create a Profile and click Save Setup button, in this example is called Test. Select this Profile and click in the Auto Load button.
Then you need to setup CamTwist to autostart with Leopard, because CamTwist needs to load before any application.
Now I’m going to talk about keep Leopard updated. When I wrote this blog, last update available is 10.5.7.
I found to different ways to keep Mac OS X Leopard updated: manual deploy of updates or using software update. I tried both ways and I prefer software update.
The first issue I found when boot into Leopard is the wireless. Leopard can't recognize the Atheros AR928x wireless card. There are lots of discussions about this issue on the web. Easy solution is buying a new wireless card. I read a lot of posts and the winner was Dell Wireless 1510 N mini PCI-E half size card on eBay for less than $30. My new wireless card is on the mail, so more about this soon.
I plugged the Realtek 10/100 NIC into my home router and Ethernet looks disconnected. Modify Network card settings using following steps fixed the issue.
System Preferences Network Ethernet Configure: Manually Speed: 100baseTX Duplex: Full-Duplex MTU: Standard (1500)
Before I bought the MSI Wind, I found several web sites taking about install MAC OS X Leopard on the MSI Wind. I don't use MAC, I work deploying enterprise systems and nobody uses Apple systems on large companies, but sounds like a good challenge.
The exercise was done solely for learning purposes. The install of Leopard on PCs violate the Apple Mac OS X EULA. If you are going to run and use Apple MAC OS X Leopard on your MSI Wind, I recommend to buy a license of Leopard here
There are several ways to install Leopard on Wind. I use WindOSX86 (available on any torrent site around). This version include a hacked build of Leopard 10.5.4.
Because I want to keep the Windows XP intact, I decided to split the hard drive on 4 partitions.
1 - 20 GB for Mac OS X 2 - 20 GB for Windows XP 3 - 20 GB for Windows 7 4 - 90 Gb for Data
Using Acronis Disk Director, I deleted the fist partition (recovery) and resize the Windows XP partition to 20 GB, leaving 20 GB partion for Leopard before the Windows XP. Optional: Then you can create extra partions on remaining free space.
I use a external DVD to boot and install WindOSX86, there are some people booting from USB drives (google or bing it).
Install Apple Mac OS X on the first partition and don't delete any partition (if you want to keep XP).
Welcome to my blog about MSI Wind. This week I bought a MSI Wind U123-003US (the red one!). I'm going to play with Apple Mac OS X Leopard, Microsoft Windows XP and Windows 7 on this little machine.
Specifications:
CPU Intel Atom N280 1.66 GHz Processor 512 KB L2 Cache, 667 MHz Bus speed 2048 MB DDR2 (PC2-4200) RAM (upgraded using Crucial CT25664AC800) 160 GB SATA Hard Drive 10.2" WSVGA (1024 x 600) LED Backlit Display Two internal Speakers Built-in 1.3 Megapixel Webcamera and Microphone (BisonCam NB Pro) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 Built-in 802.11b/g/n Wireless (Atheros AR928x) Bluetooth V2.0 EDR 10/100 Ethernet LAN (Realtek PCIe FE) 4-in-1 Card Reader: SD, MultiMedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro Ports: 3 x USB 2.0, Headphone out; Microphone-in, VGA, RJ-45 Battery Life: 9 Cell Battery (~10 Hours Battery Life) Windows XP Home SP3
Windows Infrastructure Architect specialized in Automation, Citrix, Cloud (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) and Virtualization with 19 years of experience and passion for designing, building, deploying, and supporting Windows solutions in America, Asia and Europe.
Guillermo wrote two books about Citrix XenApp, published by Packt Publishing.
He is the founder and developer of KopiCloud, which provides tools for multi-cloud (AWS, Azure and GCE) infrastructure as a code.
Also, he is the founder and developer of the popular site CtxAdmTools, which provides free automation tools to manage Citrix environments, Cloud (AWS and Azure), Active Directory, Virtualization and more.
