Apple released an update for Leopard a few days ago and yesterday I decided to update. Before the update, my system was as follows:

Motherboard: Abit IP35
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 @3GHz
Memory: 2x1GB Geil Black Dragon CL4
Hard Disk: Hitachi Deskstar 500Gb
Video Card: MSI 7950GT 512mb PCIexpress

Leopard was installed from a copy of iPC 10.5.6 which I downloaded. Patches used are:

• AppleHDA patched for ALC888
• NVdarwin for 512mb cards
• OpenHaltRestart to enable restart
• IONetworkingFamily patched to provide Marvell Yukon 8056 support

My video card suffered from the issue where it was only recognised as a 256mb card. A quick BIOS edit and flash later, it’s fully detected as a 512mb card. Details of this here.

Bootloader was updated to Chameleon 2 RC2 and I ticked to install the Extra folder.

Contents of my Extra folder:

• AHCIPortInjector – allows correct detection of ICH9R chipset
• AppleDecrypt – decrypts the apple binaries
• ATAPortInjector
• Disable – stops AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement from loading
• IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector
• JMicronATAInjector
• OpenHaltRestart

Because I have a disabler for the CPUPowerManagement kext and a DSDT file generated, I could do the update to 10.5.8 without any problems.

Downloaded the combo update for 10.5.8 and used it to update from 10.5.6 without any issues. Once rebooted the only job left is the edit the Info.plist inside AppleYukon2.kext which is found inside IONetworkingFamily.kext to add device ID for the 8056 card.

Video card worked find with NVdarwin but I finally managed to get EFI strings working, so I’m using them now. I used this guide (with thanks to projectosx)

My Extra folder, patched AppleHDA.kext and IONetworkingFamily can be downloaded here.

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Having a download manager is an essential need these days with files getting larger and larger. The very last thing you want is to be 90% through a 700MB download only to lose connection and find that you have to restart from the beginning again!

A download manager can certainly help prevent this, but also offers more features to improve the downloading experience.

Speed Download is one program for Mac users that can provide a better download experience by offering features such as

• Queued Downloads
• Mirror searching
• Downloading from multiple sources
• Resuming of broken downloads

Essential features that all download managers should have, but what makes Speed Download Lite better? Well it has been rebuilt to offer only a download manager. Gone are the FTP and WebDav features (but you didn’t use them did you?) and gone are the file sharing tools. Other than this, Speed Download Lite is pretty much the same as it’s big brother, but cheaper.

If you are looking for a quality download manager for your Mac, then look no further than Speed Download Lite – it does the job at a great low price. Quality mac shareware should be supported!