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Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X
Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"
I guess it's not a computer unless it can violate licensing restrictions.
1.5TB
Impressive. Equally impressive is the amount of MONEY you spent on ALL THAT MUSIC! (Even if it is losslessly compressed).
The guy did it just to prove it could be done, which is pretty cool.
If I poop off a 200m cell phone tower would you be impressed to?
sopssa, I know you're probably only 12 or 13 and never used NeXTSTEP. Now, unlike you, many of us here have. We know that Mac OS X is significantly closer to NeXTSTEP than Windows 7 is to Windows 95.
In fact, many of the changes that Apple has made have been nothing more than optimizations of very solid code. If anything, Mac OS X should run much faster than NeXTSTEP on comparable hardware, due to these performance improvements.
Also keep in mind that unlike Microsoft, Apple knows how to write good software. The only reason Windows 7 doesn't run well on old hardware is because Microsoft has embraced .NET, which encourages bloated software. Apple, on the other hand, uses the tried-and-tested Cocoa stack that is written in a natively-compiled language (Objective-C) and encourages the development lightweight, memory-efficient applications.
I didn't even bother to look at your image, since I know it's bullshit if you created it. If you want to argue, at least try to have a somewhat valid point of view. And for fuck's sake, don't cite images hosted at ImageShack. Really.
How would you know?
Are you some sort of hacker psychic?
Always back up, never back down. ---- Think you're cool 'cos your uid is prime? Take mine, modulo the one digit integers
Oh for god's sake. It's a linux box, of COURSE it runs Pear PC.
However, it's a total waste of everyone's time. Who cares? Really? This is only interesting for twitter and digg retards. When did this sort of crap become news?! Arghh. Yes I know. I'm not new here. I'll be quiet and go back to rocking back and forth in a corner.