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While this was reported on Friday, I just saw it, but some hacker has installed Apple's new Operating System, Leopard, on the Eee PC. For those who don't know, the Asus Eee PC is a sub-notebook with Linux installed. It weighs just 2 Lb, has a 7" screen, 4GB of Solid Storage, a 900MHz Celeron, and 512MB of Ram. The reviews of the machine have been very good, but say that the keyboard is a bit cramped, and the screen resolution is not very good (800 x 600). The hacker did install Leopard, but downgraded to Tiger, because of the specs of the slow processor speed and the amount of RAM. It goes to show, OS X will run on almost anything.

 

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am waiting for the sse3 Merom version of eee in April 08. Leopard tells me it needs 7.5gb to install. How are you able to install with 4gb? I think the QC/CE does not work for leopard!!! (GMA900)

Systemprofiler crashes (need div/0 patch), ical crashes (sse2?), no phtot booth (QC/QE), no front row.. etc. need GMA900 fix first...

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am waiting for the sse3 Merom version of eee in April 08. Leopard tells me it needs 7.5gb to install. How are you able to install with 4gb? I think the QC/CE does not work for leopard!!! (GMA900)

Yeah! Customise your install and remove printer drivers, languages, X11...that already saves a lot. Then you can save more by manually removing localisations and ppc code, as well as unnecessary files.

 

I would recommend uphuck 10.4.9, it has great SSE2 support, works full QE/CI on GMA 900, and it's the smallest OS X distrobution around.

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Yeah! Customise your install and remove printer drivers, languages, X11...that already saves a lot. Then you can save more by manually removing localisations and ppc code, as well as unnecessary files.

 

I would recommend uphuck 10.4.9, it has great SSE2 support, works full QE/CI on GMA 900, and it's the smallest OS X distrobution around.

 

Using Tiger is like going backwards.. like running Windows 2000, ME, 98, 95 on a notebook you brought today. not good enough for me ... hope some solution for GMA900

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He can get it working on that but I can't even get it on mine...

 

I am using a Celeron D Processor at home. This CPU supports SSE2 and SSE3. I've installed and used Myzar OSx86 10.4.6 for some time.

 

Mac OS X Tiger may be a good fit for the Eee PC due to lower system requirements and support for CI/QE Graphics.

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Sounds a bit silly I guess, but this thing has also had a lot of hacking done to it already.

 

The Solid State hard drive is non-removable as it has a bga type flash memory chip soldered

into the sata bus 82801 using some sort of proprietary sata to ide to compact flash converting chip.

 

people have opened it up already and found two available usb headers on the motherboard and

hacked in a stripped down 8gb usb flash drive to each one making 3 available hdd's to install

Operating systems on.

 

With the default xandros linux on the original hdd, Xp on one 8gb USB flash drive and OSX on the

other it could be quite a nice light little system.

 

The wireless chipset is atheros so im guessing it would work in OSX don't know about the sound

but probably a ALC codec.

 

Put OSX on this system and Kismac and it would probably be a mighty fine little wardriving beast.

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I am going to pick up an EEE PC when the screen resolution goes up (hopefully when the release the new models with bigger screens). I might just put Tiger on it, but I think Leopard might be a bit much for it.

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This could a hoax, but it sounds possible as in performance. There is osx86 running on ultraportables with 1GHz processors. The eeepc looks like the same just in a laptop form, the processor is a celeron-m ULV @ 900MHz and soes support SSE2. I believe it is possible.

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