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Flickr Find: FakeBook Nano

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Nov 10th, 2008


Gizmodo found these pictures of a customized MSI Wind laptop that comes complete with glossy finishes, Apple logos and Mac OS X. The laptops feature the name "MacBook Nano."

The laptops have 10-inch screens, 2GB of RAM, 320GB hard disks, a flash media reader, and the specifications feature Windows XP Professional and Mac OS X 10.5.5.

Gizmodo notes that they can't tell if the laptops are a custom hack, or are being illegally sold. Descriptions on the images appear to be in Chinese, so if you can let us know what they say, be so kind as to leave us a comment!

Tags: fakebook, flickr, gizmodo, msi, msi wind, MsiWind

Filed under: Hardware, OS, Hacks, Odds and ends, Leopard

Cool Hack: Running Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jul 15th, 2008



Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10" or smaller displays and weights that make a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison.

MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O'Brien decided to get his OS of choice, Mac OS X 10.5.4, up and running on one of these little wonders. The machine is a variant of a recently released UMPC called the MSI Wind, which weighs in at 2.3 lbs and sports the new Intel Atom N270 CPU running at 1.6 GHz.

While Paul admits to a few small issues, he was not only able to load and run Leopard on the Wind, but he also documented the entire procedure in text and video (see above) if you want to make your own Ultra-Mobile Mac. After watching how easy the process is and finding out how inexpensive the Wind is, I'm tempted to try this myself! Be sure to let us know if you're successful at following Paul's footsteps.

Direct link to the video and step-by-step instructions.

Tags: hack, intel atom, IntelAtom, leopard, mac os x 10.5, MacOsX10.5, msi wind, MsiWind

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