Install Mac OS X on a Cr-48 Chrome notebook

In the hackintosh tradition, we present this method of installing Mac OS X onto a Chrome Cr-48 notebook using Hexxeh's Luigi firmware toolkit. You'll void your machine's warranty in the process, as you've got to remove the bottom cover to activate developer mode.

Once that's done, you can flash the machine, install the custom firmware and then install Mac OS X. It seems like a lot of work to us. If you like watching videos of a computer booting over and over again, blurry, illegible terminal commands and ear-splitting music, you'll find a real treat after the break.

For full details on what's going on, check out Hexxeh's blog post.

[Via MacStories]

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Jasox

Hmm I was wondering does the wireless card/modem idk
Work with Mac os x installed on the cr-48
(idk if it shows the wifi signal in the picture I'm on my iPhone so I can't c it clearly)

February 04 2011 at 4:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jason Anderson

Can you dual-boot? That would be better. Though I'd rather install ChromeOS onto my MacBook and dual-boot there instead of try to use OS X on the Cr-48 which will probably be really slow. Let alone Windows 7.

January 04 2011 at 4:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jay

I haven't tried it because I gave my CR-48 to my wife and she wants to keep using Chrome OS, but I ran an Ubuntu live USB and had a look at the partition table. There are several partitions on the 16GB SSD, but the main one for the OS is about 14GB. When I began an installation, I was able to give Ubuntu about 12-13GB next to Chrome OS. I don't see why one couldn't dual-boot with Linux or OS X.

And Ubuntu 10.10 runs great on it. The only down sides are the finicky trackpad (e.g., two finger clicks can cause the cursor to hop around if you're too quick with it), and the F keys aren't really F keys, so they don't do what they should. For instance, I had to open the power settings to lower the brightness.

Otherwise, performance really isn't so bad... and I was using a USB stick.

January 26 2011 at 1:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

IanC

A lot better than the default OS!

January 03 2011 at 5:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

If it wasn't for the truly awful music I would have fallen asleep well before the end of the video.

January 03 2011 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

Don't do it. Two reasons: First of all, Google records your private activities and sells the aggregate information to others. Secondly, Hackintoshes give the gift of hard to track down kernel panics at unexpected times (i.e., when you are doing critical work). Just get a Mac if you want to use a Mac. Apple isn't reselling your personal information. They even refused to go that route even when iPad only publications insisted on getting that information.

By the way, the above are just pragmatic arguments rather than getting into the specific legal ones about intellectual property. The other pragmatic argument against using Google operating systems is that you will soon need security software to safely do so.

January 03 2011 at 4:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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silvio

Makes 100x more useful

January 03 2011 at 4:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply