Honda Boy Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Has anybody had a try with the Asus EEE Box? From the specs, it looks like a very capable OS X machine. Atom N270 and G945GSE (This is the mobile chipset, should be the same as MSI Wind) [bIOS 403? enables EIST] Realtek ALC888 Audio Realtek RTL8111C Gigabit Ethernet AzureWave AW-NE771 or AW-NE766 802.11n Wireless (Mounted on a Mini-PCIe card if required for swap) DVI out 1GB Ram, 80GB 2.5" drive, All this sells for a grand total of $360 canadian at our nearby computer store. Any thoughts? Sounds like another D945GCLF, but in a neat package Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinchy Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 I have one, and I never thought of installing OSX on it. I just happened to catch your post... so I will try installing it and see if it works out at all. It's a pretty slow machine though, it's about the same processing power of the MacBook Air, and we all know how well it performs... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-877751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honda Boy Posted September 5, 2008 Author Share Posted September 5, 2008 I have the D945GCLF with 1GB Ram, and a 160GB Seagate. I love it! It has become my main machine. My Real macs are a dual core G5, and a dying MacBook Core 2 Duo. For me, a small quiet, low power machine that can display flash animation and output mp4 video, I'm happy. What is performance like? I was thinking this would perhaps be a great machine to replace her aging Mac Mini G4. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-880637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danneman Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 I have the D945GCLF with 1GB Ram, and a 160GB Seagate. I love it! It has become my main machine. My Real macs are a dual core G5, and a dying MacBook Core 2 Duo. For me, a small quiet, low power machine that can display flash animation and output mp4 video, I'm happy. What is performance like? I was thinking this would perhaps be a great machine to replace her aging Mac Mini G4. Im considering getting one of these as well, but am wondering if all peripherals (display, sound, network) work with hackintosh? If so, what drivers are you using? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-881403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honda Boy Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 So far, everything works great. Audio works with a hack, ethernet using the driver from the realtek website. Sleep works. There's a thread about it here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=113623 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-881860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danneman Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 Great - thanks :censored2: Ive ordered this mobo and am going to use it primarily for iphone-development. Perhaps too heavy duty for this mobo? Shouldnt take too much resources to successfully run the iphone sdk, though? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-882270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCH Posted September 7, 2008 Share Posted September 7, 2008 I would go for the ASUS EEE box mainly because the audio is fully supported; the wifi pci-e card, you need to replace that. Also it looks really nice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-882362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
le jeune bidouilleur Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 has anyone done it now? Is it working well? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-920857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
travisbickle Posted November 4, 2008 Share Posted November 4, 2008 So has anyone turned this into a Hackintosh? Is it suitable?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-955192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrspeedmaster Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 They're selling for $279 today at Amazon. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-963805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratzfatz Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 I did it. Here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-987655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick14 Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 A new eee box comes out soon with better grafics it has a ATI HD3XXX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-987681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoovebert Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 I just installed iDeneb 1.3 (10.5.5) on my eee box thanks to the awesome forums and community and of course some good old fashioned trial and error. I am very new to the osx86 scene and yet somehow managed to get it done, again thanks to google and everybody who documents their processes so well. While it's not a SCREAMER, it certainly works well enough for what I use it for--I have it attached to my plasma hdtv and i use it as a bittorrent client and use nullriver's medialink and connect 360 to stream bittorrented media to my ps3 and my xbox 360 as well as its itunes library to those machines and other macs on my network. i used to use tversity to do this in xp, but it ended up being so unreliable that I looked to see if I could get leopard to work. Everything seems to work, although I have not tried wi-fi, my bluetooth dongle, or sound in yet. Also, one caveat is that the highest screen res I can get is 1280x1024, not the native 1920x1080 that I used to be able to get in XP. I'd love to get that going and then I would be completely 1000% happy. 1280x1024 is fine for now, I mostly just vnc or screen share into it anyway. If I make any headway into that, I'll let you know, but it seems that maybe it's darwin that's keeping me from attaining greater screen res? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123529-asus-eee-box/#findComment-1058398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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