A hacker, and a member of our forums, has managed to get Mac OS X Leopard running on the MSI Wind. This is what jav had to say about getting it on his MSI Wind. It's translated from spanish.

All that and the MSI Wind isn't even going to be released until July 7th.
EDIT: It appears that the sound also works OTB. The resolution and wireless are the only things that we know of that don't work.
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Forum Thread (Spanish)
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I am VERY impressed, congrats!

Im building my hackintosh right now and have been also eyeing small ultra-mobile notebooks because I do not need a disc drive. The EEE screen is too small, tne mini-note is too expensive, but I think this is juuuuuust right. Especially now OSX can run on it!

How stable is it and will it run everything?

numberzz u r a beast at spanish!!!

is that MSI Notebook full working or their is same problems ?

Whats the integrated graphics? GMA 950? GMA X3100?

If its GMA950, it might need paulicat's natit.


This notebook looks to be pretty awesome.

GMA 950

eek, that doesn't make me very happy.

According to this: http://www.notebookcheck.net/MSI-Wind-U100.9487.0.html , the Wind has the X3100...but I've seen GMA950 elsewhere.

Yeah, GMA950 is quite the proverbial bitch. I am able to get full QE/CI and no artifacts on my VAIO, but only with paulicat's Natit. And even then, display out does not work.

Cool running, small and more than fast enough for office work and movies. I would like to see a review and hear about battery life but the Atom processor looks like a deal maker. Apple really need to respond to this.

Felicitaciones (Congrats) jav!!!

Specifications

• Manufacturer MSI
• Model name Wind
• Model id U100
• CPU type Intel Atom (Diamondville)
• CPU speed 1600 Mhz
• Graphics Intel GMA 950
• OS Linux
• Display Size 10" 1024 X 600
• RAM 1024 MB
• Hard Disk 80 GB
• Keyboard YES
• Mouse Pointer YES
• Battery capacity 24 (W/hr)
• Weight 1200 gm
• Size (w/h/d mm) 260/180/31 mm

Physical Interfaces

• Ethernet 10/100
• VGA
• MIC-in
• Line-out
• USB2.0 (x3)
• SD card slot

Wireless Interfaces

• 802.11b/g
• BT 2.0 (On some models)
• BT2.0
• No Wireless WAN (e.g. 3G cellular)

Additional Specs and Accessories (can vary)

• Built-in camera.

Product Notes

• Said to be launching in June. Prices shown here are for the Linux version. XP version is approx 30 pounds, 50 Euros more expensive.
• Webcam is 1.3MP
• One RAM slot is free (unconfirmed)
• SD card slot is multi-format. (SD/MMC/MS/MS-Pro.)
• Hard drive is 2.5"
• Available in Pink, Black and White.

Pricing Guide (based on retail price for base model.)

• Europe: €470 08 May 08
• USA: $560 09 May 08
• UK: £320 08 May 08

Specs according to UMPC PORTAL

Cheers...

Wow, incredibly lame move. My signature has been 'truncated'. How about a PM before deleting what took me a while to compile? Had I known signature rules have been set in place i would have gladly obliged.


Anyways, those Wind specs are pretty good.

The graphic card is the only that sucks in this laptop and make it work will be a pain in the ass, other than that is awesome!

That's allot of fucken bloatware.

im curious if this will work in the end
-gma950 under tiger/leopard
-sleep
-speedstep?
-wifi

if thats possible, then apple will have a strong competitor i think

I'm pretty quite happy to see this laptop MSI Winds works fine! What the point is they use Intel Atom Z530 1600
It's rock!!! What is the problem is the GMA 950 x3100 graphic card very discussting.. Anyway, sound nice

I use GMA950 and dont have a problem with it. I use the intergratedframebuffer kext and set the resolution by using boot strings in boot.plist No mouse tearing and full QE/CI

Hmm.. It sounds like a pretty good laptop for the price, and I would buy it in a heartbeat.. If only it had something other than that GMA950 :/

Hmm, are you using 10.5.3? Which integrated framebuffer?

I am using 10.5.3 framebuffer and GMA950 files. I am able to plug EFI GFX strings, but i end up with only a blue screen. I think it has something to with recognizing my LCD screen, which I believe natit helps with.

EDIT: HAH ! well whatta ya know, I replaced the Integratedframebuffer with the one from iATKOS v 1.0i 10.5.1 removed Natit and viola! My GMA950 is working, including VGA-out

This is nice. And yes GMA graphics are very bitchy. I lost two days trying to get it working for a friend WHO ACTUALLY HAD THE OPTION to get a nVidia card in his HP laptop.

 Its really cool actually! Almost all hardware works! Maybe i buy one!

Tell to UMPC PORTAL

or maybe to MSI

Cheers...

does the battery indicator also work?

We need more video. Wana see user-interface speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQBCrp-N6so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVGozcXsBEg

olofd, thx. I already saw it. There aren't user-interface video. It's startup and "about this mac" video. We can't see user-interface speed(((

P.S: sorry for my bad english

sooo can we expect to see wi-fi, proper screen resolution, and power management support anytime soon? i suppose the osx86 Wind community won't be very active until MSI starts shipping these things out for real...

What's the power consumption of its northbridge? Is it still around 20W (which would suck compared to a 1.5W CPU)?

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/msi-wind.aspx?page=1 Ticks pretty well all of the boxes for me, apart from the GMA 950. Battery life, battery life, battery life. Dying to try the keyboard. Asus's EEE has a suprisingly decent keyboard that I almost never made typing errors on.

so are you saying this fix might work with the Wind?

Its entirely possible, it depends on the Vendor, Device and Revision ID i guess.

My notebook system profiler info:

Intel GMA 950:

Chipset Model: GMA 950
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory
Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
Device ID: 0x27a2
Revision ID: 0x0003
Displays:
Display:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1280 x 800
Depth: 32-bit Color
Built-In: Yes
Core Image: Hardware Accelerated
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display Connector:
Status: No display connected

I am thinking that the 950 graphics will work, but that they will be releaseing the x3100 with the new Atom 1.6ghz dual-cores.

The wireless is an 8187 Right? Does it work with the realtek drivers?

Also what sound chipset does it use? What works and what doesnt?

Same question about the LAN, 4 in 1 card reader, Web Cam...

Also what about sleep, shutdown, and reboot?

Also does the battery indicator work!

I ask a alot I know. But I am about to sell my Extensa 5220 and want to make sure this will have a shot at working.

I think I'll be replacing my eeePC with one of these! It's specs are right on par with this super cheap hackintosh I built, and if I can get this kind of power in a small portable package then I'm sold! Tiger/Leopard just aren't usable on the eeePC lol.

i speak spanish

Hi!

the MSI Wind will be released as a nearly identical device by Medion (or is released). I will buy one of these great machines tomorrow.

Are there some kind of instructions how to install OSX86 on this machine(s)? My main-machine is a MacBook Pro - so I normally use the "real" OSX - but running Mac OS on such a tiny "take everywhere" machine is GREAT - and I want to have it...

So - who is able and willing to provide help?

Thanks in advance!

Greetings
paaqoo

There aren't any instructions yet naturally, since the only person to have done it is a Spanish speaker person who hasn't really provided us with to many details. If you would only buy this machine if you could run OSX on it you might want to wait till a bit after the 7th(when it comes out in most places) when more people have got one and tried various fixes for the card reader and everything else that doesn't quite work yet.


Wifi is pretty much guaranteed though, as it's been confirmed in some video review that that that easy to remove looking chip is the wifi. so you can just throw in a dell card or something and it would work fine.

Here we go!
Just got mine today and whacked 10.5.2 (Kalyway) onto it.
I've got airport going with a Dell 1390 card. The inbuilt one RTL8187SE doesn't seem to work and I had to put more RAM in anyway.
The RTL8187SE is physically the same size as the Dell 1390, but it has the standoffs mounted halfway down the PCB as well as at the full size length.
I had to snap the middle standoff off the mainboard to get my chunky Dell 1390 to fit!
And it is working a charm!
QE and CI are all working with no issues. I am slowly compiling all my info into a text edit file and will upload to http://wind-osx86.wikispaces.com/ later tonight I hope!

Video of it all in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQt205r8tsg

Enjoy!

and yes the battery indicator is working

I think I'll put a video tutorial together as well. But that will have to wait until the sun is out. Too dark in my little home.

Dude in the video did you mention that Wifi wasn't working ?
Do you know if the wifi card can be swapped ?

Also plz try the camera and recording audio....

*Blink Blink Blink* He wrote very clearly he replaced the Realtek wireless with a Dell. Had to break the middle connector. So answered

I wanna know does the card reader work!

Webcam works (needs QE and CI going first).
Wi-Fi isn't working as its RTL8187SE chipset.
Wi-Fi can be swapped. I put a Dell 1390 Mini PCI-E in there and it's working a charm!
I'll be testing further once I have base systems working such as headphones. We need headphones.
The speakers in this thing are terrible!


Card Reader is working with a 4GB SDHC SanDisk - looked to be around 4-6MB a sec on a 500MB file.
Clicks in nicely too, why is every so obsessed with card readers!
Whoops looks like my left USB ports are out of line. Better crack it back open again.

A Codec Dump and HDAEnabler should get you squared away for the sound. ALC888 is VERY supported.

Anyone got a dump of the MSI Wind? I can't get Ubuntu Live to boot...
and it's making me sad :'(

SWEEEEEEEEEEET

I gonna go buy one very soooon

This is perfect for college.

will it be possible to get wifi working with the stock realtek card? that seems like the biggest obstacle right now.

also, what about power management...does it show the battery meter? what kind of battery life are you getting?

http://wiki.taruga.net/tiki-index.php

Grab HDEnabler and the Experimental ALC888 AppleHDA kext. I have some that should work and if you PM your email I will send them along to you.

Stock Wi-Fi should be possible, not quite yet though as it seems the chipset isn't really used in anything except the Wind.
Power management reports % and time correctly. % in increments of 1% and to see the time remaining is GREAT.



I gave that a go, but all I get is nothingness. No sound at all. It populates System Profiler - which is nice. The options of output devices changes around a fair bit with each different kext used, but no sound on any of them except good old Azalia.

Thanks, I just woke up ;-)

happy car--

btw thanks for working on that wiki. it'll be quite helpful!

Good, now one of my other concerns.. battery life. How long does it last on battery ? I am assuming you got the 3 cells battery correct ?

Thanks for your time,

Let me send ya some files, email addy?