Finally, an Intel — #22

Post #22 by Bunsen

Source Forum	Finally, an Intel — #22
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 - 18:23
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/finally-an-intel.25701/

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Hopefully it's a late 2006 Core 2 Duo

It is. The link in the OP is to the exact model.

but a quick SMC rest

Rest or reset? How does one do that?

The matte screen is easier on the eyes + the keyboard is great to type on

I quite agree

There's a little bit of darkening at the left and right edges until the CCFLs warm up. If they go, I might do a LED mod, but so far they seem fine.

the X60. If it has a C2D cpu

It did - but like I said, I'd rather max this machine out than buy another.

A Mac / at Crap Converters / at a reasonable price / I didn't even think such a thing was possible!

I know what you mean

Most of the time all you can find in there is a crappy G3 iMac for $xxx

just watch out for the dreaded X1600 GPU failure

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that. Ah well, fingers crossed.

Keep yours cool

That's the plan

LCGuy, coius, thanks for the tips about the ATAPI optical. Would a straight PATA drive work hanging off it? Speed isn't that much of a concern; this would be a second drive, not the boot volume.

Does anyone know if a drive connected via the ExpressCard slot is bootable on this specific model? (A1211) I've looked at EC SSDs and USB3 cards, but someone on IRC mentioned the slot may not be boot-friendly.

the chipset in them supports at minimum 4 SATA devices, but you will need to find pads to do it.

Interrrresting....