Handy Hackintosh runs Leopard
World's smallest Mac
THE CURRENT FAD for trying to run Apple's (almost) universally-praised operating system OSX Leopard on anything with a chip in it has reached a new benchmark.
A fine fellow known only as TRF has manged to cram the full OS into the world's smallest full featured PC, the OQO.
An eye-wateringly blurry video of the diminutive beastie appeared on Engadget this morning, and our digital imaging experts (that's me that is) reckon it's the real deal, straight from the cooker, without a chaser.
Pics of two OQOs running Vista and Leopard side-by-side only served to make us wonder what it is TRF does for a day job, as none of us here at Inq HQ could afford to buy two of these wallet-worrying widgets, let alone risk footling about in their innards just for a bit of a larf.
Cries of "Fake" and "Charlatan" and "Can you get it to work on my toaster?" have been dismissed by TRF.
"The Leopard install is legitimate and works quite well," he said in a forum post. "However, I am still working on two final issues which are video resolution, presently limited to 800x480, and wwan which I have not yet attempted. Sound, wifi, power management, and usb are working fine and the system is very responsive." µ
Comments
How Practicable is Application?
Just Thinking of Timex-Sinclair Makes people on other side of Universe Winch. Yet it had its reasons for existance.Competing directly with mainframe for advancing technophiliacs, TS gave them BASIC as code base to work up. It had Modem too, so you could P2p to Ibm 360.Plenty of Room to LEARN. BASIC was used as it had RUNLINE Numbers & cobol was too hard to gire with out many passes thru printer(gire passes=4+)hahaa.
So Wala, Todays Aging Computer Experts True Womb.
These New Deveices are Nice & O/S compatibility is Successful. Yet, Maybe made for UNIX system would serve owner well. Just to Learn UNIX.
Its Sweet little Device, yet on battery, several hrs?, Cost extreme, Breakage:INCREDIBLE.
Theres certain redundancy of use that is slim, already covered market. Field useage is exception, must be lots of unanswered situations where that little squirker Could Find Useful Campsite. Cool File Player in Auto, Too.Just throw it In Your Briefs.Case.
Drashek
VCool
Since it looks like Vista and OS X were on identical hardware I want speed test comparison results!I want them now dang it. :-)
Have a great day,
Glenn