moonman Posted September 11, 2013 Share Posted September 11, 2013 I have a few Dell hackintoshes with Snow Leopard or Lion: D430, D620, M4300. In general, is it okay to repair Permissions with Disk Utility? Or should you avoid that? Is an alternative to run myFix from myHack? Or better just to leave everything alone, unless problems arise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonman Posted September 11, 2013 Author Share Posted September 11, 2013 P.S. wanted to say that, based on advice from Herve and others, I bought a Precision M4300 and am pretty satisfied. Got a good deal on eBay, about 130 euros shipped. What can I say? It's HUGE! But I love the monster 1920 x 1200 resolution! A bit heavy, but still less than the Powerbook 17" I had years ago. I installed Lion, but found it a bit slowish. Okay, but I hoped for more speed. So I started over and installed Snow Leopard. Much faster. I'll stick with 10.6 for now, as all the software I use is compatible with Snow Leo too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted September 11, 2013 Administrators Share Posted September 11, 2013 In general, is it okay to repair Permissions with Disk Utility? Or should you avoid that? It's Okay to use when you have issues; and sometimes it's required to fix issues that are not solved with myFix. I installed Lion, but found it a bit slowish. Okay, but I hoped for more speed. So I started over and installed Snow Leopard. Much faster. I'll stick with 10.6 for now, as all the software I use is compatible with Snow Leo too. Generally speaking, I personaly find that Lion is indeed not the best performer amonst the recent Mac OS X versions. I much prefer ML and/or Mavericks but I'm possibly biased as the graphics difference is huge between SL/L and ML/Mav. This being said, performance will also depend on the CPU you have and the amount of RAM you have. As an example, I replaced the T7500 CPU of my D630 nVidia by a T9300 and the improvement is quite noticeable. The laptop feels much more responsive. I'm also running off an SSD and that is without comparison to a traditional HDD. Your M4300, being based on the GM965 chipset, supports the same sort of upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMick Posted September 15, 2013 Share Posted September 15, 2013 You won't need to repair the permissions with disk utility. When you do a full myFix, it will automatically repair the permissions. (with the same command as disk utility). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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