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That is the same case I got and its perfect. Small footprint, good quality, so far power supply working quiet and cool.

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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/se...p?EdpNo=3986411

 

 

Our Price: $209.99

Intel D945GCLF & Atom 230 1.60GHz - Qty: 1 $69.99

Crucial 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory - Qty: 1 $49.99

Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB Hard Drive - Qty: 1 $49.99

Lite-On DH-20A4P-04 OEM DVD Burner - Qty: 1 $24.99

Power Up Mid-T w/450w PSU - Qty: 1 $39.99

 

$10 mail in rebate

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That is the same case I got and its perfect. Small footprint, good quality, so far power supply working quiet and cool.

 

First of all, thank you all for sharing your experiences with this system. The instructions posted by MrFlood and wwwsn00per were very well written and easy to follow.

 

I got the same Apex MI-100 case. One silly question, though: Which side do you have the side vent facing? I have it facing downwards but this seems to defeat its purpose as air can no longer circulate there. I barely use the CD drive so I don't mind keeping it on its side most/all of the time.

 

Side note: Initially, I just shoved the optical drive into the case. It was a tight fit and the optical drive would endlessly spaz out after waking up from standby. I eventually figured I should remove the front bezel before sliding the drive in. This created a gap between the case's front bezel button and the actual drive's button so I just taped a thick bubblegum lump of paper over the button to make the front bezel button functional. I was surprised that it took this much effort to get the drive to play nice with this case. I hadn't read any similar problems so I'm sure my experience was a freak occurrence.

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Is there anything that needs to changed in the bios?

 

Nope. I changed a few things in power management and disabled some of the on-board peripherals for my specific setup, but you shouldn't have to change anything to get a typical OS X install working.

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so hows the performance? im having doubts now because the dual core atom is coming out in either sept-dec, and that looks exciting, but idk if i can wait! also the dell mini and slim are coming out and they start at 299, so much to choose from! so is it deal able? and can it play basic videos like divx/xvid, and run youtube and other flash apps decently?

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Sorry to burst the bubble, but i'd like my perfect hackintosh fitted with a dedicated video card, and preferrably a better processor. It's all well and good, that it works perfectly! But i'd like a better processor preferrably and an onboard gfx card. For games/video editing etc..

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Does anyone know the approx height of the heatsink/fan on this little mobo? It will help decide what kind of case I will build/buy and if I want to use slim DVD and 2.5" hard disk or 5.25" DVD and 3.5" hard disk.

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has anyone tried the new iATKOS 10.5.4 release?

 

I did, but it didn't work out for me. It kept rebooting in a loop. Didn't want to deal with it anymore so I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 then updated to 10.5.4 works great.

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