Used Hardware: Acer Aspire 5051 AWXMI
In the following page you can find information about the specific hardware I used for these howtoos.
Followed with some comments about the used software and performance.
Acer Aspire
Acer Aspire 5051 AWXMI
AMD Turion 64 Mobile (2,0 GHz)
14.1" WXGA LCD-ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
BIOS version: V1.3303
This laptop is the version without BT and cam.
Upgraded the ram to 1,5 GB
Upgraded the HD to 150 GB (Samsung HM160HC)
(the old original 60 GB is build in an external casing and used for back-up images and other content)
Installation:
Triple booting on one HD:
Install order:
1. XP (on fat 32) 30 GB
2. Sabayon 4.1 60 GB (Grub installed on the linux boot-partition......the darwin bootloader (osx) is on the mbr)
3. OSX-86: 10.5.4 60 GB
Retail:
Booting OSX 10.5 retail from external disk with the boot cd and usb provided at the acer-retail install page.
This external disk is used on all my pc's......with some specific initrd.img booted, for each pc, and the usb-boot method.......in fact it's an 8 GB usb stick itself (the boot usb is 1 GB).
Comment:
The osx installation on the acer is very useful:
This site is made with it....all types of movies...TV shows....music with iTunes etc. (fine for common use) except no qe/ci which is a real difference if you have it enabled.
Infact osx on the acer makes a nice introduction with apple but cannot beat the real thing.