Well, I installed a hackintosh (iPC 10.5.6) on a Dell Vostro 1720. I used (this) USB flash drive as the installation drive.

Everything works fine - except one thing: The hackintosh is very slow.

Any idea why? Is it because of the flash drive?
I have ideneb 10.5.5 on another PC, installed on a Verbatim 300GB portable USB hard drive, and it's really fast in that one.

Also, is there a way to check that the processor's cores are both working? and that all 4GB of RAM is used correctly?

Whats your video card? did you check if you have full QE/CI support? with finder go to utilities and check if you have both cores working, I think your ram is fine.

Thank you for your reply, sorry it took me so long to get back to you

The details in the system profiler goes like this:

• Hardware (parent node):
  There was an error while gathering this information.
  
  
• Diagnostics:
  Result: Passed
  
  
• Graphics/Displays:
  NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS...
  
  
• Memory:
  There was an error while gathering this information.
  
  ...

(Any other interesting sections in the system profiler?)

Seems there's a problem with the RAM. What does it mean that the hardware section says an error has occured? Does it refer to the RAM or is there a problem with the CPU, too?
Maybe it's a chipset problem?


Thanks!