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  1. Damn! Just my luck. I'll have to see if I can get a D630 somehow. Shame as this D620 is in perfect condition
  2. Hi Hervé Thank you for the reply. I have been reading a lot in the forums here about the various bits and pieces. There are some people who claim to have Mountain Lion running on the D620 but they do not have any decent video drivers as it appears the Intel GMA does not have any hardware acceleration now in OSX 10.8. This does make me wonder if it would then work on a model with the nVidia graphics, providing you had a Core 2 Duo CPU installed as well? Thanks for the clarification on the DSDT stuff. It is hard to pin down exactly what all that is about. Looking again through the compatibility charts it does appear that pretty much any laptop with the old Intel video won't work now with Mountain Lion. Apple certainly do like sticking it to their customers. I have no end of trouble with them at my work, and we have all their proper kit as well. Mind you I have successfully managed to run virtualised versions of the OSes on PC hardware now. It isn't really the same though and I can't lug an ESXi server around with me everywhere
  3. Hi All First post so be gentle please I have got my hands on an old Dell D620 laptop (Intel GMA video). Now we use Macs at work a lot so I know Mountain Lion won't go on the Core Duo CPU. This has been confirmed in other posts here as well. I have read people talking about upgrading the CPU in the D620 to a Core 2 Duo, and I know it can take certain Core 2 Duo CPUs from Googling and other posts here. Also a great YouTube video pinned on another thread shows how to do it completely. Can anyone confirm that they have actually done this though and got Mountain Lion working? The other thing is that the D620 does not have a wireless card. So this is where it might start to get a bit messy. This is what I plan to do: 1. Try and find an old working Core 2 Duo CPU from our piles of dead laptops and Mac Minis at work. Install that into the D620. 2. Upgrade the RAM to 4GB, new Core 2 Duo will allow 64-bit OS and access to all RAM. 3. Install the D620 hacked BIOS with the DSDT settings. 4. Try and find an old working wireless card from the dead Mac Minis at work, and install that. Now here is the big question. If I install the hacked BIOS in step 3 but then add a non-Dell wireless card, say from a Mac Mini or MacBook, will the DSDT settings in the BIOS now cause a problem? Would I be better off using the standard BIOS and installing the EDP package? Many thanks in advance TG
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