sHARD>> Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 The Register is reporting on OnlyUMPC.com members' efforts to boot hacked OSx86 on their Ultra Mobile PCs, and it appears they were quite successful. A few interesting pictures, as well as a video of the slow boot times (small size means slower processors after all) have been posted. Now if only these things weren't so expensive, we'd finally have a new Apple PDA. Screenshots and video. Thanks to Alessandro17 and guiyoforward for the heads up in Reader News. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Freak Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 WOW, Nice!! I always want a touch screen Mac... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Part of me wonders how they managed to actually retain the touch-screen functionality. I guess a pressure-sensitive screen that gives x,y coordinates isn't too complicated to set up in place of a mouse. It's pretty impressive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostgame Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 ^ Yeah, it's called writing a driver to make the touch-screen be in place of a mouse. Incredibly impressive effort, the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell. But slow as hell... :S Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell. What's that supposed to mean? I'm sure just about everyone here would agree that just getting OS X to run on genuine PC's is the best thing to come out of OSx86. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 What's that supposed to mean? I'm sure just about everyone here would agree that just getting OS X to run on genuine PC's is the best thing to come out of OSx86. He's not into OSx86. Not everyone is Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 But slow as hell... :S it's not THAT slow Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcn47 Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 It runs a less faster then PearPC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 i think it runs good for a "litle" procesor. the touch screen its great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
milesce Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Funny, because yesterday I was reading up on attempts to get the Treo 650 to run Linux. I'd love it if I could get OSX or Linux running instead of Palm OS. I suspect I'll be waiting a while. They've got it booting linux, but no phone software written yet. Ah, well. Can't have everything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomozj Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 it's not THAT slow Yeah I know Windows is slower than that most of the time for me lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258744 Share on other sites More sharing options...
guiyoforward Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 hey mods, I posted about this five days ago! not that it's going to be my claim to fame, but perhaps you could review all news equally... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35937 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 hey mods, I posted about this five days ago! not that it's going to be my claim to fame, but perhaps you could review all news equally...http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35937 I guess we just missed it. Added your credit. Thanks for the news! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyel Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Incredibly impressive effort, the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell. But slow as hell... :S Watching OSx86 work with touch screen was impressive. Getting OSx86 installed on various machines and actually having it work is just amazing (IMHO). So far I've installed on Dell Inspiron 1150, Custom mPC 915, Dell Inspiron 1300 and Dell Dimension 4600. The Dell 4600's graphics just screams with ATI Card. --danyel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/36325-osx86-boots-on-an-ultra-mobile-pc/#findComment-258795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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