Guess why I bought this particular model Of course I like keyboard, very Apple-like, and the mat screen and further the ease of accessing the HDD and other stuff.

However, the main motivator was, that it was the successor of the ProBook 4530s, which, allegedly, is the best laptop computer to be OS-Xed.

I tried the traditional route, i.e.

SnowLeopard DVD, and the further steps.

Potentially it was the availability of the latest Probook installer 6.1.11, which motivated the second attempt.

Now, my HP Probook 4540s (Sandy Bridge) is happily running OS-X 10.8.5.

You may ask, why I am not trying to install Mavericks (OS-X 10.9.1) on the laptop.

Well, first of all, I like Mountain Lion in a way.

And yes, I was tempted by the fact that 10.9.x seems to incorporate power-handling more deeply.

Hence, I tried to boot 10.9.1, but it failed in the first attempt.

Well see what the future has in house for the last laptop member of the Sandy Bridge family.

BTW, in order to get WiFi, I exchanged the laptops WiFi-card to one that is supported by OS-X genuinely.

This set me back by about 8.- When I bought it, the ProBook 4540s cost me about 600,- and came with MS Virus7.

I replaced the 320GB HDD with a 1TB WD blue (which was about another 100.- at the time).

All in all, I am really glad to have bought this computer.

It served me fine under Linux and it seems to be doing a great job with OS-X right now.

The good old times, where it was clear what was a tablet, when speaking about computers.

Well, this post is not about iOS or Android devices, this is about the input device called a tablet, or graphics tablet to be precise.

There was a certain hype, well before touch-screens, to use tablets in particular in drawing applications and CAD.

On a windows PC, or Linux respectively, the cheap tablets work just fine OOB, wo any additional worries.

There are some issues however.

I wrote a tiny shell script, so that I do not have to remember the parameters.

The idea was to use it with the GIMP, post-processing my photos (cf.

Gimp For Mac 10.9.1