Reading Time: 3 minutes The Acer Extensa 5230E makes a decent OS X Lion platform — especially with a few upgrades. This is apparently not a common OSX86 platform, but I’ve confirmed that it does in fact make a decent machine for running Mac OS X Lion. It was a tricky process, and if you’re not tech-savvy, it might be more […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute It was surprisingly difficult to get Netflix to stream smoothly on a Macbook 5,2 using Safari, or any other browser, on an external 1080p display. Without going into painstaking detail, what I finally found to work well is to configure the external display resolution to 720p, enable display mirroring, and not use bluetooth for an […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute What a PITA. After a few failed attempts trying to install over wireless, then wired, from USB media, then DVD, then verifying the DVD and re-trying, reviewing the installer log, etc., I found out that the message I was getting: Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X Had nothing to do […]