Putting Mac OSX on a Netbook

Quincy Pince-Nez
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December 13, 2008
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Wired's Gadget Lab has a tutorial on putting MacOSX on an MSI Wind Netbook.  We're in luv with Leopard running on our 1GB RAM/8GB Flash HP Mini 1000($359).  With under 5GB used for the OS and applications, it gives us about 3Gb to play with.  We're hoping to have an Apple product at Macworld, but until then, this will have to do.

Comments (14)

1408 (not verified) | December 13, 2008 - 11:30pm

Blasphemy!

But can you do anything with it?! (not verified) | December 13, 2008 - 11:34pm

8 GB will just barely hold a regular install of leopard. You'd have a really hard time doing anything useful with this...

randomtruth (not verified) | December 13, 2008 - 11:48pm

netbook = meh
I can not use one if my life depended on it.

michael smith (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 12:11am

Our Dell mini-9 has been working great! However, we bought the 16GB version. 8 GB would be pushing it. But now there's a 32 GB version also.

http://www.michaelsmith.tv/2008/11/10/dell-mini-9-leopard-install/

But can you do anything with it? Sure! First off you need to do a custom install and turn off the languages you don't need and other options. That way you can upgrade the 10.5.5, and still have breathing room

We use it for safari, email, itunes (music is streamed over wifi from our main itunes lib on another computer), hulu, microsoft office, etc.

But we'll sell this in a new york minute as soon as apple comes out with a good netbook.

michael smith (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 12:16am

Also.. as the video shows on my site - we did not use a pirated version of Leopard but a legit boxed version. In my video if you watch close enough you can see me break the seal on the leopard box. The method I used also allows you to do apple software updates, and everything works except for sleeping. The camera works for ichat AV and the mic and speakers work. All shown to work in the video.

hp mini 1000 fan boy (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 4:53am

did you manage to install Leopard on the HP mini 1000?
Is it fully fonctionnal?
Some people says :
-Unstable wifi fix
-No Audio
-No sleep and restore(crashes)
If anyone got some info/fix please share!
Thank You.

michael smith (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 2:39pm

I've only done it on the Dell Mini 9. On that I've never had problems with anything except sleep, which hasn't been that big of an issue. wifi works fine, audio works fine. In this wired video they say you have to put in the dell wifi card.. why not just start with the dell? For audio I run a little free utility that gives me a menu bar item for sound in/out choices. The only audio issue is that it does not auto detect when you insert the headphones, so you have to switch it manually. Not a deal breaker. On the sleep there are work arounds but it hasn't been a big enough issue to even experiment with yet.

pete-01 (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 9:18am

this would be cool for browsinq while i take a dump.

seriously, though. i messed around with getting os x on my pc a couple years back. it was too much of a hassle, and updates were a pain. so i just bought a mac.

kev orng (not verified) | December 15, 2008 - 5:42am

That's why we call it a Craptop computer

9to5Mac Knob (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 12:11pm

Did you guys have working wifi with the stock wifi card or did you install the Dell 1390? I have an Aspire One that I love to death and I've been holding back on installing OSX because I don't really want to open it up, even if the card is $12.95 shipped.

DT (not verified) | December 14, 2008 - 10:15pm

Does the camera work in OSX with skype, ichat with HP? Does wireless work on HP? Any other troubles? Thanks.

Darko Martic (not verified) | December 21, 2008 - 1:43am

I have MSI Wind in dual boot (WinXP + Leopard) for a few momths now and I must say that Im very satisfied with it.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | December 22, 2008 - 8:07am

Since you have the machine open, could you simply pull the drive and put it in an external case and install OS X that way?

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