dbb Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Any chance OSX would work on Sony's latest Micro PC's? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Tha's old, and it runs Palm OS, and has no MMU, and runs Motorola Dragonballs anyways (OS 4.0 Sony) instead of OS 5 with ARM's, so no go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/#findComment-130752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booshi Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Tha's old, and it runs Palm OS, and has no MMU, and runs Motorola Dragonballs anyways (OS 4.0 Sony) instead of OS 5 with ARM's, so no go. i'm...sorry ...what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/#findComment-130997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 1. Sony UX90 runs Palm OS 4.0. 2. OS 4.0 is designed for the Motorola Dragonball (EZ) series of processors. One of the processors used inone of Palm's models was the 68040. Remember when Macs used 68000 Motorola processors as well? 3. You'd have to run PPC OSX, since only OS 5.0 and above use ARM processors. OS 4.0 Dragonball processors are big endian (highest bit first), like PPC and Mac 68000 processors, whilst Intel Macs are designed to run on x86 hardward, which is little endian (lowest bit first). 4. There isn't enough RAM, and access is painfully slow. 5. Even if you used a Memory Stick, VFS (Palm OS's external media interface) is painfully slower. 6. The Palm family doesn't have a MMU (memory management unit) which is why things have to be recompiled for it (see uCLinux). 7. You would have to install in VMWare or PearPC since there's no two points of entry for external media (RAM is too small to hold anything, and there's only one way of getting stuff in - Memory Stick. That is unless you'd like to install OS X by infrared.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/#findComment-131025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbb Posted June 19, 2006 Author Share Posted June 19, 2006 The PC I've just ordered is the VGN-UX90. http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.ph...products_id=371 It's running Windows XP (not Palm OS) and ships with an Intel Core Solo 1.20Ghz CPU. Could become a very portable Mac if I can make the switch to OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/#findComment-131882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 Wow. I stand corrected. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19866-sony-vaio-ux90/#findComment-132021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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