eeeMac creator tells you how to do it yourself

A little while ago, we posted about Gregory Cohen's eeeMac -- he modded an eeePC into an OS X-running ultraportable, including adding a little Apple icon on the back. And now, he's posted how he did it all on a blog, so that if you've got a few Saturday afternoons, an eeePC to destroy, and a big interest in making a really tiny (fake) Mac, you can do it too. And even if you don't want to crack the case and do a little modding, you can still try to just get OS X running on the little machine -- Gregory has done all the hard work for you and boiled everything you need down into a 22mb disk image (you'll also need a retail OS X disc, of course).

Very cool. I'd never have the time or insight to put one of these together, but I can definitely marvel at the achievement.

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Source: http://eeemac.blogspot.com/

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valerydebusiness

I want to run MAC Snow leopard on my asus Eee PC 900
With the below specification
900MHZ for processor
2GHZ for RAM
4GB Solid State Drive
2GB SD RAM
USB Bluetooth
In built webcam and MIC

What is the procedure and i which to find out if MAC is Good for Hacking.Because i want to learn how to hack scammer (Fraudster) email password.I live in Cameroon.
I will apreciate explicit answer as if i am a baby.

December 24 2010 at 3:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

DiaboliK

great, taking a communities work and making it seem like it was all him....

lame n00bs

-D-

btw. eee's suck arce

January 09 2009 at 8:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

I got a Dell Mini 9 for Christmas and it's running OS X at the moment. Great machine. I love it.

January 09 2009 at 1:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SoloMalee

With Apple NOT announcing anything netbookish (...and in fact going completely the opposite direction), I wonder whether we'll see a sudden surge of Netbooks running OSX

I know I'm seriously thinking about it, only time and the ski season is stopping me... ;-)

...are there stats anywhere on this?

January 08 2009 at 2:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gregory Cohen

Never having used the MSI wind, I can't say if software wise it's better or not, but i have taken one apart. The 901 is clearly the better box for hardware modding. Lots more room and lots more unused internal USB ports (At least 4, I think there are 6 due to the architecture of the chip, but I know of 4) If you have one of the eee's that does not come with bluetooth you have 5, if you have no camera you've got 6. Easy to access, and easy to mod.

January 07 2009 at 11:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mathmonkey

The streamline idea is great. I've been looking to do this with my Lenovo X61 tablet but the shear volume of info to sift through makes it overwhelming.

January 07 2009 at 8:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Tonyt3

@MathMonkey, I sure hope you hack your X61; I have the X60s and would love to have it running OSX of any version. best of luck.
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January 08 2009 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mark Ross

Meh. The MSI Wind makes a much better Macbook Nano than the Eee in my opinion.

January 07 2009 at 5:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply