Slashdot Mirror
OS X On the MSI Wind
Ruler of Planets writes "PlanetX64 has just published an article on loading OS X on an MSI Wind, effectively creating a machine that is smaller and lighter than a Macbook Air. The exercise was done solely for academic purposes and doing so voids all kinds of warranties, but hey, now you can slip a Mac into a lab coat pocket!"
everybody noes real men triple boot debian, gentoo and Freebsd (with kde2 patched onto it, ofc) none of this os x crap, i mean if it 'just works' then how are you going to sword fight all day?
My partner bought us a Hackintosh thinking he was saving money. The guy building them claimed it blew away most Macs. He was told it was a 3.2 quad core, turned out to be a 2.6 dual core with a tiny hard drive. The machine was half the speed of an 18 month old dual core 2.0 iMac we have. I told him it was junk and he returned it. We ended up with a Mac Pro which IS fast. Unfortunately I've found Leopard to be a really unstable OS. Sad because it has lots of nice features it's just a real mess. Mac Pros are stunning pieces of equipment and well worth the money. I'd wait for the next OS if you can though. Kind of like Windows in that way they released a bloody beta. I've always found Hackintochs to be a lot slower than people will admit. For hardware don't even waste the money on iMacs go straight for the Mac Pros. They look and feel the way computers should and the features are exceptional. The OS is holding them back but that should get fixed next year well before the next Windows release.
... is the comparison (in the submission) between this and the MacBook Air. The actual dimensions of the beast in question appear to be similar to or slightly larger than the current 10" MacBook being offered. The submission mentions putting it in his lab-coat pocket, which seems out of the question unless you get your lab-coats made by the local tent-maker.
This would be a really useful exercise, however, if it could be applied to the real sub-notebook class of machine.
I actually think it may be the other way 'round. Most of the people I see using "Macs in public" would still buy the Apple product even if it came with Windows only.
:-) But I take your point: although desktop systems don't matter so much (my "heavy horse" linux box is pretty much out of sight under my desk) the portable offerings from Apple do have an appeal of their own from an aesthetic point of view.
I like to think you might be right, but I suspect not. If an Apple box came with Windows installed, it would probably suck. I don't normally like to take this position, since I'm not keen on fanboyism, but I've had a bad run today with MS idiocies.
... Isn't that a given, when talking about mac users?
My bad, I was referring to the 12". But my point remains: this box is quite thick by comparison.
Fanatics are fun.
We got a whole middle east full of them but backwards cave dwellers to the chosen ones.
Pick your delusional group and flame away.
Just because your fantasies are more tolerable to you doesnt make them more idiotic.