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TwitPic Find: Snow Leopard on a hackint0sh

by Steven Sande Aug 16th 2009 at 6:00PM

What's better than pictures of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in the wild? How about a snapshot of Snow Leopard running on a hackint0sh? While this could be a doctored photo, it does show a Eee PC 901 netbook with several windows open on the screen. In the About This Mac window are the magic characters "Build 10A432", which all good TUAW readers should recognize as the build number for the Golden Master of Snow Leopard. Click the Read More link to see the picture.

Twitterer @stroughtonsmith is an Irish iPhone developer and all-around Apple geek, so there's a pretty good chance that this is indeed one of the first Snow Leopard hackint0sh photos we've seen. Here's hoping that Apple doesn't revoke his developer program privileges for sneaking out this picture!

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lolzinator

You don't understand the practical applications of building a fully functional, upgradeable, expandable Mac Pro style box for a fraction of the cost? Okay...

August 17 2009 at 11:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jash Sayani

I have done a successful installation of Leopard (10.5.5) on Acer aspire one with everything working except WiFi.

August 17 2009 at 2:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
netkas

Thats so old, first hackintoshes with 10a432 appeared a day after it was released on adc.

Steven Sande has no clue abotu osx86

August 17 2009 at 12:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Steve

Agreed, this is a total non-article. I used a guide (linked to from my blog post) to install it, and I just modified drivers from then on to get the rest of the hardware to work.

August 17 2009 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco

If you read the rest of his Twitter feed, you’ll find out it’s really Leopard on a eee PC, but it’s not working in a usable manner:

“I have Bluetooth now working on Eee in Snow Leopard; still no touchpad. Have compiled a few different versions of the VoodooPS2”

http://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/3346133874

August 17 2009 at 2:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
drunknbass

Credit should be givin to netkas and the chemeleon crew as they do the hard work to make it easier on the rest of us.
No offense to Sts but this isn't new or amazing, and all the people who have doing recompiled 64 bit kexts and decyptor kext(insanelymac, Infinitemac, netkas, etc) deserve praise for all they have done to make the install easy for the rest of us.

August 17 2009 at 12:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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oliver hart

amen

August 17 2009 at 2:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kariya

Actually it is the GM because we were given it to do some testing for our product and Apple gave us confirmation that it is the GM. I have it on my Mac for testing and i am very happy with it. It is lightning fast and far superior to Leopard. And mine also says Build 10A432 Unless over the weekend they found issues with this build but like i said before this is the GM and it is going into production for the September release.

August 16 2009 at 11:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lanejasper69

Hmmm... I just installed it on my MacBook Pro and under "About This" It says 10.6 NOT "10a432" is this common when installing to real Mac as opposed to a Hakintosh? Curious...hmm

August 16 2009 at 8:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mab0881

click once on 10.6 to display the build number, again to display the serial number

August 16 2009 at 10:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

I was wondering how come I was getting a bazillion Twitter followers a minute!

You may be interested in the full blog post, much better picture there. But I seriously don't recommend anyone else try this until there's a full driver set out there. The trackpad doesn't even work.

http://blog.steventroughtonsmith.com/2009/08/eeepc-901-snow-leopard.html

August 16 2009 at 6:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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oliver hart

Mars478 and Dalton 63841 on msiwind.net have it running at 80%. Drivers are missing, screen res isn't great, etc-however it is functional. Not to take credit away from your work or anything, kudos.

August 16 2009 at 7:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kakapo

10A432 is NOT the GM....
Too many considerations... issues...
It is blazing fast but that is all I am going to say.
I do not want to lose my Dev privileges.

It is quite interesting that this update was back to burning a DVD again.

I liked to SU process.

But DAMN it is fast.

August 16 2009 at 6:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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JKT

10.4.0 and 10.5.0 both had numerous issues too. That is why 10.4.1 and 10.5.1 followed within weeks of Tiger and Leopard going on sale. At some point Apple has to get the OS out the door. I see no reason why small issues with 10a432 (which are not being universally reported, BTW) are reason to think it's not the release version of 10.6.0.

August 17 2009 at 12:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
A Developer

10A432 is NOT the golden master, if it was it wouldn't have gone out to the Appleseed community for testing.

August 16 2009 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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