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"i use option 4 on my d620=intel it's a bit sensitive but..." What is option 4? "...i don't like the side scroll."" Side scroll= "as for gestures. they are not working." Gestures are actually reportedly WORKING. See this "my d620 has an alps trackpad." Thank you! That answers question #2 "but if you want gestures you can always buy an apple blue tooth trackpad. unfortunately not all solutions can be free" Once again gestures are actually reportedly WORKING. See this This poster knows how to make it work.

Thanks Bronxteck, that answers my question #4 and talks about the efforts the Edp team is putting forward. Do you have two-finger scroll going?

1 Some people have gone as far in hackintoshing their Latitudes as to change the BIOS for cosmetic purposes. Beyond that I very often forget what keys are what when it comes to the Option, Control and Alt keys and it is certainly a major nuisance for those who like me are caught in the transition. Has anyone here either swapped the key plastic covers or relabeled them somehow in order to make their lifes easier by adding visual cues? 2 A major deal for me is the "Home" and "End" keys when typing. Is there an easy solution? Maybe a little hidden feature with a GUI or a program that would allow me to make those changes with a GUI? Note: I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE if I get a little pre-emptive here since this is a very helpful community but just to try to be on the safe side since occasionally bad apples can be found in the best baskets: I'm FULLY AWARE that there are shortcuts on OSX that substitute the function of the "Home" and "End" keys but the one reason I'm posting this in this forum is precisely to see if anyone has been ticked by this enough that already found a workaround in order to avoid using THOSE Mac shortcuts. I'll sooner go back to Windows if I had to use those shortcuts but I don't want to do that EITHER! I want to be able to reap all the benefits of using OsX without my having to change my typing habits. Moreover, having there programs/scripts/programmers etc that have allocated so much time, brains and effort in making it possible (and in some cases easy) something as complex as it is to install OsX in a PC I of course will resist getting discouraged by reading anything that would try to suggest that circumventing the default keyboard functionality available in OSX is inherent to the OS to the point that developing a FakeSMC is easier than changing the way the "Home" and "End" keys behave. Sorry about the pre-emptive rant lol, I hope I didn't blow up anything though

I have a few of questions regarding the trackpad on my D620 Is the trackpad featured on a D620 a multitouch device? Does anyone know the brand/model# of the trackpad in a D620? Is the brand/model# of the trackpad on a D620 different than the one featured on a D520? I was wondering for one thing if the EDP tool will uninstall a previous kext when installing a conflicting one. For instance, if I run EDP and install the stock ApplePS2 driver but then change my mind and run it again and use Slice's driver instead. Note: My goal is to avoid at all costs Edge Scrolling, instead would love to have two-finger scrolling and gestures if possible. I came across this topic and here was a poster who was able to get multitouch on his 520 by using Better Touch Tool along a version of the slice driver and a version of the control panel he downloaded from insanelymac. I was totally unsuccessful finding the aforementioned drivers on Insanelymac, getting a reply after private messaging the poster through this forum and same with trying every possible driver and prefpane available with EDP Tool 1.8 including manually installing kexts and prefpanes from other sources and so on. I tried so many things I don't even remember what I have or not installed on my system now after even getting KPs and having to delete some kexts and/or prefpanes manually from the Extra folder and from the /System/Lybrary/Kernel Extensions/ folder and rebuilding with EDP based on the kexts present in the system. Now the trackpad works but there's no sign of a prefpane for it (same with the mouse! no mouse prefpane when I connect a USB mouse though the mouse does work). (I had to delete some prefpane files after one or two of them were crashing the pref pane altogether) Again, I tried every possible combination available on EDP Tool w/ BetterTouchTool and even downloaded a version os Slice's driver (probably an outdated one) on InsanelyMac. The result in all cases were that the BetterTouchTool would display a message in red in small letters indicating something along the lines of not being able to find a multitouch device. So either the drivers I tried fail to recognize the D620 trackpad as a multitouch device or maybe the D620 trackpad is NOT a multitouch device altogether and there's nothing to do about it, however I'm not sure about the latter since the forum member in question succeeded to do this on a D520 (or maybe I missread his post). Maybe the D520 does have a multitouch trackpad but the D620 doesn't???

Hi everybody! I was wondering if you would like to share your experiences with wifi card replacement on your Dells (i.e. difficulties of the system recognizing the card at any point of the installation or plug'n'play capability and reliability of wireless network connections) It'll be great to learn of your personal experiences with any of the following hardware: 1- An actually Apple branded airport card or 2- An OEM card branded as an Airport card or meant for an Apple product in its product description or 3- A Broadcom card were there's no mention to Apple compatibility at all in its product description. If you could even be specific about model numbers of your replacement wifi card that would be very helpful! I'm in the continental US looking on ebay and I see all the options above but at the same time I have read at some point that not every broadcom replacement works out of the box. Thanks in advance for your replies!

(English is my second language. I needed to convey the idea a little better so I edited it a bit, thanks for your replies). OMG! Just when I threw the towell, then I come back and there's more than one answer!!! Oh well. To answer the question as to why would anyone be interested in running Windows in a non emulated environment the answer is that there's more to Windows than office apps. Office apps can now even run well right from the cloud. A great example of that is Audio applications. It turns out that there are audio applications that do not exist in the Mac. For those like me who switched to the Mac at a later point in their digital endeavors and might have been doing audio recordings (multitrack recording) using Windows apps for a few years emulation is not an option. When it comes to audio applications you need the full power of the hardware and then more. You can always name great audio apps that are either multi-platform or are exclusive to the Mac that would be a great substitute to many Windows audio applications but that doesn't mean much when you have done an entire album for a customer let's say (or for yourself or whatever) using a specific audio application written for Windows and a few years later the cousin of the sister of the step dad of your best friend knows someone who is a producer and loves the song but can't stand the fact that the cowbell is not loud enough. Then you go, fire up Windows, bring up the project back (it wouldn't load in any other software since it's not a spreadsheet) and there it is you do some chain compression work to the Cowbell, listen to the mix, export the file and done. Instruments in many of these software packages are a lot of times emulations of classic hardware (synthesizers, samplers and effects) and they take TONS of CPU cycles on their own and in some extreme circumstances you would distribute the CPU load between several computers. (This is becoming less common as CPUs are becoming more and more powerful though that's not exactly the case with our Dells in here). So as you can see we are not yet at the stage where you could run hardware emulation (synthesizers, samplers and effects) inside of a software package that's also being emulated in a Virtual Windows environment in a Mac. That might be an option in 4 years maybe. So being able to dual boot in scenarios like these matters lots.

Should I make the assumption that this topic is beyond the expertise of the 30+ forum members who read the topic? Did I offend anyone without realizing it on my 1st post?

In anticipation of having more than one operating system on my D620 Intel version I partitioned my drive in 3 different partitions under the GUID partition table before I installed Snow Leopard in it. All went well and I am posting from it right now, but I haven't installed the other OSes nor made a GPT conversion yet. I partitioned my 250GB drive as follows: Disk0s1 = 120 GB for Osx ------(already running 10.6.8) Disk0s2 = 110 GB for Windows --(unused partition -I haven't installed anything there yet) Disk0s3 = 20 GB for Linux -----(unused partition -I haven't installed anything there yet) (Sizes are aproximate of course) As I was reading the wiki regarding dual booting the instructions at one point said that Windows would install in the 4th partition of the drive I don't mind following instructions to the T, but do I need to repartition de 2 unused partitions to reflect what the wiki says or can I go on the way I have it, convert the partitiion table to GPT and install Windows in my second partition and Linux in the 3rd partition as I originally imagined I could? Thanks!