Ok folks, I MUST HAVE one of those EFIX thingy ma-bobs. I have a machine with all of the right hardware and an older load of OSX HackIntosh on it now. Upgrading it after each update is becoming painful.

Please take me to your leader.

EVEs_Mako

Why can't hackers make a one way easy step to loading OS X on PC hardware? What I want to see is just pop in the DVD and install is that really hard to make happen I love Apple and OS X but they really need to start selling 799 laptops and 600 towers of the imac that would make perfect sense. Just use last years specs for the low end models they will still run great. I think they should come out with a 12 inch cheap laptop and a imac with no built in screen and is like the mac mini but with the power of a imac but in tower form not that  tv look and to get a mouse, keyboard and screen it would cost 800.

Crash Override 777

Nice, I was looking for a way to lower my already disappointing battery life.

mhlaxp

Sweet at netbook with no sound or networking!! I can totally use it to... ummm....

Wait I could use it for .... uhhhhh

Article should be entitled: "Full, Realiable Instructions to turn your Eee PC into a paperweight."

MikeSWelch

@yogibimbi: Apple tried clones back in the Jobsless Nineties. It didn't go well. The manufacturers made crap, bland equipment that damaged Apple's brand name. When Jobs returned, he killed the clone Macs. It was thought to be a belated attempt to emulate the PCs rise to dominance through licensed architecture.

[en.wikipedia.org]

As long as Jobs skippers Apple, there will be no Apple clones.

OMG! Ponies!

@zakharm: Actually, it's no ethernet. Wi-Fi works, I believe.

Mark Wilson

Blargh. Fly-a-Kite OS X on XP would be better than this, and I hate Fly-a-Kite OS X.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@yogibimbi: If OS X 'Officially' gets released to work on other PCs, Mac computer sales will go down.

Although others, like myself ((to an extent)), who see the Apple Logo as a status symbol will still pay the extra to get an Apple-Branded computer.

Jon B.

@zakharm: What's the point of putting OSX on any PC?

baltwade

@zakharm: The ability to say "Lookie at what I can do".

OMG! Ponies!

Anyone try to use an EFiX device with an eee PC running with OSX?

If this keeps up, Apple is going to really have it's work cut out for them competitively pricing the new Macbook.

Samifumi

No sound and no wi-fi, what's the point?

zakharm

mmm, so how long will it take for Apple to give the tired masses some of the same, preferably sans keyboard? (I hate to repeat myself, quite secure in the knowledge that nobody realizes, since nobody listens, including Apple...)

yogibimbi

Me thinks that Photoshop CS3 and EeePc don't play together very nicely.

Jon B.

I'm getting a little weary of the "lookie at what I can do" aspect of the eeePC.

What impresses me about the computer isn't that it can run XP, Irritable-Bowel-Syndrome Ibis, or Tiger; it's that my old-fart Baby Boomer mother can figure the damned thing out.

OMG! Ponies!

What is the FRIGGIN point if the sound dosnt work. What else dosnt work? the webcam screen and mouse pad?

Stacky Botrus

@Crash Override 777: Because Apple had a hard enough time with the Intel switch. The true Mac Zealots are not unlike hardcore Yankees fans.

A hardcore Yankee fan will yammer for hours on end about how he stuck with the Yankees through the Eighties when the Yankees were a bunch of bums and how they had to put up with Mets fans in 1986 with stupid Dwight Gooden. Then they'll beat their chests about how great the Yankees are now and how, thanks in part to ace pitching by Dwight Gooden, the Yankees returned to dominance. Anyone who started rooting for the Yankees in the Nineties is a Johnnie-Come-Lately.

Mac Zealots yammer about how they stuck with Apple all through the Eighties when Jobs got pushed out and Apple made all sorts of bad decisions. They'll yap about how although products like the Cube and the Newton were flops that failed to work as advertised, that they were visionary products. Then they'll start off on how the toilet-seat iBook was a brilliant design - much better than the utilitarian minimalism of an IBM laptop.

Make no mistake - there's nothing worse than a burned out hippie with a pony-nub driving around in a VW microbus with a rainbow Apple decal and an Apple IIc jury-rigged to control the A/C. That's the kind of guy that gets an aneurysm when you type "I-pod".

Mentioning Apple clones and cheap Macs will piss him off. Mainly because it means that with a little bit of cash - you can be as cool as him.

Fun reading:
[www.g4tv.com]

OMG! Ponies!

@pete:
Barely.

crsh1976

I've been using Leopard on my Eee 1000H for about a week now, thanks to the iDeneb installer and instructions from MacEee/Mister X (which are largely copied in the article pushed by Giz here).

It works for the most part, except for LAN and sound of course (wifi DOES work), and while it's a neat toy to play around with, it's sadly not as smooth as a real Mac (duh, who knew?!).

crsh1976

The MSI Wind is a much better runner-of-OSX...

pete

I had a window manager on my Solaris box that looked like Max OSX and it freaked people out when they saw it.

reddingofish

@Crash Override 777:

I thinks you are dreaming.

NEVER.

GOING.

TO.

HAPPEN.

Jon B.

@Crash Override 777:

It's not a single step and you have to open up your case to hook it up to the MoBo, but if that's not a problem:
[gizmodo.com]

Solaricide

@OMG! Ponies!: Dang, stereotypes much?

-I love my Macbook Pro, OS X, and my iPod Touch
-I drive a 2006 Hyundai Elantra
-I'm not a hippie

yeeeeah

Jon B.

Like some guys putted out here, it is not a matter if it is usefull, but more like look @ my Mac EEE OSX

Still if i had the proper hardware i surely want to have the hackintosh on my pc but sadly i have none

TBM-Fan

@Jon B.: Then you're not a true Mac Zealot. You probably started rooting for the Yanks in 1996 too and have the "2" jersey to prove it.

Better hurry - someone's stealing your bus:

I'm just messing with you.

OMG! Ponies!

"Realiable"?

delroy666

The only reason I came into this thread is to see all the wonderful posts about it being so "realiable". Color me letdown, I thought the Giz readers were more reliable.

Enochrewt

Not that I don't understand doing something "because it's there", but by the time I spend 2 days fscking around with trying to put OSX on this machine, I could have earned the extra money to just buy a MacBook. Plus I'd have sound and WiFi, no headaches. And I'd have enough left over to buy a Nano.

autonomousgerm

@OMG! Ponies!:

Oh God. So stupid. Give it a rest dude.

autonomousgerm

yeah, certain components don't work. But SOMEONE is working on it. Soon it will all work and many will benefit from the hard work of a few.

Don't worry about whether "it's worth it" -if you think that way, this stuff is not really about/for you. The "builder/tinkerer" spirit doesn't care nor is loyal to a platform. Only that they can try to stretch-bend-tweak it to make it their own.

"I can take apart the remote control and I can almost put it back togethr. . ."

tech-tard

@tech-tard: Well allow me to retort. This just in from el Jobso cruising down the road in his Merc in Cupertino:

"Look at me, look at me, driving and I won't stop,
And it feels so good to be alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower, secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations,
Or let 'em all die from exasperation,
Have 'em all healed from their lacerations,
Or have 'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison,
JUST CUZ THEY VIOLATED OUR PATENTS
I can backdate stocks with no permission,
I have it all under my command because
I can make iPods with no hard drives
No hard drives
No hard drives
And I can make Prystar die overnight
die overnight
die overnight..."

Ginsu

@Ginsu:
teehee - luv them Flobots!

tech-tard

Yeah!!! Now I can get massive CarbonLib errors on an Eee PC and watch it crash more often then XP.

YEAH!!!!!!!!

Now all my fonts can blow up on a regualr basis on my Eee PC!

YEAH!!!!!!!!

JEmlay