Last night, with a bit of trepidation, I let my eee 901 hackintosh upgrade itself to MacOS 10.5.7. I’d been putting it off for fear that I might end up with a non-bootable machine (I could have recovered from it, but it would have been a pain).

As luck would have it, it mostly worked ok.

After reboot, the main problem that I had was that the monitor settings had reverted to 1024 x 768, causing the top & bottom of the screen to be cut off. Since the Mac menubar is at the top, this was a bit of a snag, but luckily I know the layout of everything pretty well, and I also had the advantage of Spotlight. Hitting Cmd-Space brings up the spotlight search box (in the right place, interestingly, even though the menubar was in the wrong place), and typing the name of an application allows you to launch it.

After a bit of experimenting, I ended up just re-installed the kexts from the EEE-Utilities package put together by Gregory Cohen. This seems to have sorted everything out.

As you may have noticed, I’ve got an eee901, which I’ve turned into a Hackintosh (I’ve installed OS X on it). I’ve previously mentioned that I found it a bit sluggish - but no more!

I finally got round to upgrading the default 16Gb SSD drive to a much faster 64Gb one made by Runcore. By hell does it make a difference! The machine feels substantially quicker, and I very rarely hit the spinning beach ball these days (which happened all the time, previously).

If you’ve got one of these machines, I’d seriously recommend upgrading the SSD, regardless of the operating system you’re using. If my experience is anything to go by, you won’t be dissapointed.

I’ve just updated the blurb a bit on this group: http://www.elegantchaos.com/uk-mac-dev

After the excellent NSConference, I’m hoping that we can get a few more members on the list, and encourage a few more folks along to our monthly meetings.

Another excellent day, with some good sessions (core animation looks cool), and a fun finale.

I must confess to being a little bit weary now, and glad to be sitting at home. Tim & Scotty and the others must be knackered - I hope they have the chance to get thoroughly rat-arsed tonight.

Inspired by Andre Pang’s presentation at NSConference, and pointed out to me by Alasdair Allan…

http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html

No really, it is funny, honest.

I’ll get my coat.