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Alright, with ML on an E6400 nVidia I've noticed 2 issues, 1.) Sleep partially works. With suspend to ram enabled I can sleep, but upon wakeup my mouse does not work at all (nor does one connected via USB) but the keyboard does work. 2.) My 2.93 GHz processor runs at 2.8 GHz. While not that much difference (what, 193 MHz difference?) when running Adobe After Effects CS5 it does matter. The thing that's really annoying is the sleep issue, as I need sleep to work for classes, until I can get a new battery I have maybe an hour and a half charge for a 2 hour class. Running Linux\Windows I just put my laptop to sleep in dead fime (and use lowest screen brightness) but running Mountain Lion I can't do that, but at least I can wake up from sleep, that never worked in Lion.

This is old, but using more thermal paste than needed is only going to result in more problems down the line, such as it caking and doing no cooling at all, or leaking over and shorting your board.

Alright, after a week or so of using this I can post my findings. 1.) Everything works EXCEPT Sleep, not sure why. It won't even go to sleep for some reason that I need to look ingo. 2.) Shutdown\Restart doesn't work. It goes to a white screen, pressing the power button will take me to the login screen again. 3.) Every now and then my keyboard stops working, but only the keyboard. Other than that I've had no problems. The only kext that isn't one you had is the kext for InsomniaX so I can close my screen without my laptop going to sleep, I've always found that annoying as fuck. I can't sleep even if I remove InsomniaX and it's kext. I'm fairly certain that my shutdown\restart and sleep issues are due to a DSDT issue of not being copied right or got skipped for some reason, when I get back home tomorrow I'll re-copy it (I would do it now but if anything goes wrong I have no backup method to fix it). Edit: Also, I noticed my processor is running at only 2.8 GHz rather than 2.93 GHz, any way to fix that?

Doing a re-install now, I'll post the trackpad status of the trackpad after sleep when it's done. While installing Adobe CS5 today it slowed down, audio dropped in and out but no hard drive access. Upon reboot I got the awesome "Hard disk drive 0 not found blah blah blah" message and when listening, sure enough it had the click of death... What is it with my bad laptop hard drive luck?

Trying this out right now. It currently appears to be working as I managed to get to the installer screen and it's installing now. Using the E6400 in my signature except with a 250 gig hard drive (others are 2x 160 GB, one with Win7 and one with Xubuntu and a 100 gig with Lion). Edit: End of install said Install Failed, restarted anyways and during loading in verbose mode I have a bunch of "Disk0s2 I/O error" messages, probably failing hard drive which wouldn't actually surprise me. Time for the 500 gig...tomorrow, I should have been in bed a long time ago because of school :/. Edit 2: Did an install on a 500 gig drive and my E6400 is now up and running with Mountain Lion, I haven't yet tested sleep or bluetooth, I just disabled Bluetooth as I own nothing except a crappy PDA keyboard that uses it and I haven't gotten to sleep tests yet. Edit 3: Typing this from the laptop itself, I believe the command for disabling hibernation is "sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0" as that one was accepted and yours returned a sytax error. Going to reboot and try out sleep now. Edit 4: Sleep does work, kind of. The system will go to sleep easily, come back out however the trackpad doesn't work until I reboot. I don't have a USB mouse around that wouldn't require digging behind my desk for my desktop's mouse cord so I can't tell you if it's just the trackpad or mouse support all together.

Ok...I found out the keyboard is fully BIOS controlled, no application control at all. It turns out this has a backlit keyboard and Broadcom Wireless, which makes life easier and the laptop better looking...not that I look at the keyboard when typing anyways.

I've got a Dell Latitude E6400 on the way (currently in shipping). It lacks a back lit keyboard, but I'm wondering if I will be able to control a back lit keyboard from Mac OS, or if it's BIOS Controlled. The one I'm getting is a: 2.93 GHz Core 2 Duo T9800 4 gigs DDR2 ram nVidia NVS160M (avoided the GMA as it lacks Hackintosh support) 160 gig 7.2k HDD 1440x900 display Intel A\B\G\N Wireless, can swap out with a Broadcom card from my old Dell Latitude D820 or this Inspiron 1010 Dell Bluetooth 370 I'm going to add a Sierra Wireless MC5725 as I have 3G card and I know it's supported under Snow Leopard by the Sprint Smart View Software for Mac OS X as I had my D820 running SL and it worked perfectly. As far as I know everything will work except the Wifi, and I'm not sure about the Bluetooth, however it's not going to be needed at all so I can probably just pull it, I don't even own anything with Bluetooth except for my PDA and I don't use it for anything except music which is stored on a 2 gig CF card so it's not going to be read by the laptop anyways. This one has no finger print reader so that's not a problem and I doubt I'll ever use a smart card reader, I have one in my old Precision M60, my D820 had one, I own a USB reader for my desktop and this E6400 will have one, but I gave up trying to configure 'em .