“So, ever since I got the Eee PC I’ve loved how easy it is to tinker with,” Dan reports over on UNEASYsilence.
MacDailyNews Note: More info about the Asus Eee PC here.
Dan reports, “Since I’m not a Linux guy, I dumped the Xandros preload and opted for Windows XP so I could you my EVDO USB datacard and blogging software easier, but I wondered could I install OSX on it? And, after trial and error – you can!”
“I’ve noticed that Leopard is a bit pokey on the eeePC because of its slow processor and 512MB of RAM,” Dan reports. “I ultimately opted for… Mac OS X 10.4.8.”
Full article, which explains how he did it, here.
Eeeeew!
What modifications were made to the Edd PC?
That’s just wrong
Eeeew? Perfect name for a generic Pee Sea!
ROFLMFAO
That monitor picture COULD just be a Mac screenshot run as a slideshow.
What a waste of time. Why don’t these idiots just buy a Mac. They can sill work in their WinDOS mire if they desire.
that’s cute and all, but it’s probably not very practical. i think that screen is like 800×480, and it’s running a 900mhz celeron. yeah. leopard will be slow on that. then again, this message comes from an overclocked 700mhz emac running leopard, so maybe it wouldn’t be that bad.
Mr. Reese,
this laptop is tiny and comes with a very usable Linux OS, and is cheap.
It’s not become a bestseller without reason.
Asus has got to the market before Apple on this one.
It’s a 7″ screen notebook with solid state disk storage. Considering Asus is one of Apple’s manufacturing partners, I wouldn’t surprised if Apple’s often-rumored “thin” MacBook is similar to this design (with a slightly bigger screen, an even thinner body, and better CPU).
A MacBook without the glossy screen!!
Where do I buy?
After reading the article, I just could not find myself to like what Adam has done. Kudos to his technical prowess. I just don’t have all the time to do what he is doing.
I prefer my Mac coming from Apple–and no one else.
In other words, like all other examples of this, it’s a complicated, techy-geeky, multiple-step pain-in-the-ass to do. All to install an OS that probably won’t have full functionality, and that can be broken by any Software Update. Apple has nothing to fear from PC hackers until one of them invents a one-step process to do it (if that’s even possible).
——RM
Anonymous said: “A MacBook without the glossy screen!!
Where do I buy?”
It figures. The guy claims to have something to say – “glossy is EVIL – but declines to associate a name with it. That, or he got caught in the earlier bug. The time-stamp is fairly recent, though.
Dave
Also … doesn’t this break the EULA?
OS X is a great OS and it deserves to be run on more hardware choices. Sometimes a cheap small 7″ screen is all a customers needs.
For myself I got a speed Mac machine, RAID 0 boot drive of the fastest drives on the market, the fastest video card, lots of RAM etc. With the new Safari, with WaterRoof doubling the bandwidth and other enhancements, my web pages actually jump instantly on the screen.
Naturally this PC won’t be able to do that, but then again for a kid it’s not necessary because they might destroy the thing.
Apple needs to start offering more hardware choices and quit being the niche player.
It certainly does break the EULA; however, have you ever heard of someone getting snagged for breaking the Apple EULA? I haven’t; some courts have even gone so far as to consider them “contracts of adhesion”, which is sort of a “you do what we say or else” type of contract that won’t be legally recognized. Don’t know if Apple’s has ever gone to court.
As Anonymous #4 implied, there is good chance that Asus will be making the rumored sub-portable Macbook. Asus has a fairly good track record for hardware; at any rate, I’d much prefer them making it for Apple than, say, Dell, who has previously expressed interest (would NEVER happen).
That’s about as attractive as Ballmer in a haute couture gown and diamond tiara.
Ampar, FTW!
The day Apple offers OS X for other PC vendors is when you sell the stock.
Steve’s real plan is to sell a lot of Mac OS, fully well knowing people will put it on Windows PC hardware.
Apple would love to sell their hardware but it is so nice their OS can work on other PC’s too. The company can keep the hardline public attitude about “don’t do it” while doing nothing too much to stop it.
Once Apple has started to seriously erode MS market, they can switch off ability to install on generic PC’s.
It’s all a part of a bigger master plan for world computer domination by Steve Jobs.
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
“The day Apple offers OS X for other PC vendors is when you sell the stock.”
you got that right!
Some things were just never meant to go together. This is one of them.
> Steve’s real plan is to sell a lot of Mac OS, fully well knowing people will put it on Windows PC hardware.
Except that people who are inclined to hack Mac OS X to run on generic Intel hardware generally wouldn’t bother buying a license (a real shrink-wrapped Leopard retail box) either. The subject of the article, after finding Leopard “pokey,” downloaded a copy of Tiger “on a popular BitTorrent site.” So that’s not “Steve’s real plan.” Apple ongoing plan for the foreseeable future is to make money selling hardware. Software development, whether it’s Mac OS X, iLife, iTunes, or the Pro apps, is the means of differentiation to sell more Mac (and iPod/iPhone) hardware.
I don’t think these hacked machines will ever run that great and probably break with every update. Will they catch on?
The first version of OS X I ever got from Apple was called Rhapsody.
Rhapsody only ran on PeeCee’s. What is the BFD here?
Just my $0.02
This is awesome. Illegal, but awesome. I’d buy it if it were sanctioned.
I wouldn’t mind having a 2 pound laptop, even if it were ugly, if it could run a beautiful OS, like OS X Leopard.
KenC