rosmaniac

I'll ditto that the 9400 can handle a Core2Duo; I swapped the C2D from an Inspiron 640m with the CoreDuo in this 9400, and both machines are happy in their roles. I don't recall the exact CPU model I used, but it's a 2.0GHz IIRC. With an SSD and 4GB of RAM, it is a fast machine, and the screen is great. As a note, the Intel GMA video 9400's seem to need the Latitude D620 highres bootpacks and EDP to work correctly. Trying with the 9400 bootpack and EDP makes the box blackscreen after briefly flashing a 4:3 letterboxed screen; hitting Fn-F8 a few times you end up with a 'torn' and 4:3 letterboxed image (it looks like severe horizontal sync tearing on a monitor). But using the D620 highres bootpack and EDP works perfectly, and while the initial bootsplash is at 1440x900, when the system boots fully the full 1920x1200 resolution is avaialble, and works great, with the minor exception of wired networking.

Ok, i have a Latitude D820/ Precision M65. I say a 'D820/M65' because it is actually a M65 motherboard part number and GPU (has the FX350M silk-screened on the actual GPU chip; but has the NVS120M video BIOS of a D820 installed; with a 'hack' to install the M65 video BIOS it would be a 'FX350M' GPU... but there's not really any reason to do so...). I've been using this OSX machine with nVidia graphics for over three years, now, on Snow Leopard 10.6.0 that I installed using the 'Leppy700m' boot CD found at http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/178411-guide-boot-cd-d-series-latitudew-nvidia-or-gma950-and-intel-dual-core-retail-installs/page__hl__%20leppy700m and with CentOS 6 dual-booting (was Fedora 12, then 13, then 14, and finally C6, all with the same OSX install sitting there). I'd like to transition this machine to using EDP, but without a reinstall from scratch. Any thoughts? Would it be as simple as installing MyHack, using the /Extra from the D820 nvidia bootpack in 'Use My Own' and overwriting the previous /Extra and Chameleon? I really don't want to have to reinstall, but at the same time I know I need to update to 10.6.8 or beyond, and since I'm using EDP on my Inspiron 9400 (using the D620 Intel high-res bootpack and EDP; the EDP and bootpack listed for the 9400 doesn't work, but the D620 one does, but that's a separate thread). I do have a SuperDuper! image backup of the root filesystem, so I can restore it if need be.