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OQO Hacker Claims World's Smallest OS X Machine

Posted by timothy on from the blurry-youtube-always-convinces-me dept.

TechRadar writes "A hacker has turned his OQO ultraportable into the world's smallest Mac running Leopard. 'I will warn you this project is not for the plug and play crowd but definitely do-able,' the hacker, 'TRF' says. Interesting, given the OQO was designed by ex-Apple employees." It might run Mac OS X, but one thing this OQO is not is a Mac.

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  1. Re:The new black? by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is cramming MacOS onto a wholly unsuitable machine the new version of doing the same thing with Linux?

    I'm reminded of this - Mac OS X running on a Centris 650. 68MB RAM, 25MHz 68040.

    No, not even a PowerPC processor. Fully software emulation.

    Running? Well, booting. Sort of. Excruciatingly, glacially slowly!
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    Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
  2. Re:Superior Hardware? by nano2nd · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a long time Mac user who recently made the switch - to a Hackintosh. The OS really is central to the Apple proposition. But.. the hardware is also a big part of it - in terms of the reliability that only comes with total control of hardware and software.

    Hardware is also important in terms of the user's perception of quality. I'm using the Apple Cinema Display I previously used on my Powermac and it is still far superior to the Samsung panel I bought recently for my kid.

    But all that said, I like the fact that my Hackintosh cost me a lot less than the new top of the range iMac (granted, I already owned the Cinema Display), and it still outperforms the real deal.

    However, 10.5.3 may be the end of the road for Hackintosh as I'm sure all the recent noise around this and Psystar will have Apple bringing down the hammer and breaking OS X for non-Apple hardware very soon.

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