Inevitable? Yes. Super great? Absolutely. Do we potentially derive too much pleasure from answering our own questions? Quite possibly. Asus has really built itself a PC ripe for the tinkering -- as Dan at UNEASYsilence points out, there's a bootable DVD included to restore the thing to factory settings, so the worst that can happen is you blow a few hours on a bum install. Of course, Leopard wasn't really designed to speed along on this level of horsepower, but the Eee PC still managed to run the OS, and the
pre-hacked disk images available on the internets make it fairly straightforward process. Instructions are at the read link.
posted Nov 15th 2007 4:20PM
Just bought a pink EEE surf 2G... but cannot get onto my Airport based Wifi network. Eee sees the network but unlike my Macs and Tivo, doesn't ever connect (It pends.) Any suggestions?
Also has anyone gotten on line with the Eee running Tiger? I own both Tiger and Leopard....
wow.. it would be nice to run OS X 10.5 on something like this!
Or photoshop :)
Someone has managed to get Vista running on it
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1875&p=1
But someone hasn't managed to realize this is engadget :)
if it had more ram, then perhaps, yes, it could be fun if you're into osx.
so, upgrading the ram would be highly recommended(in the cheapest versions the ram is soldered on though?? so says wikipedia)
Wouldn't it run faster with 10.4 Tiger? Someone please test that out....
You should be able to dial down Leopard to perform just as fast as Tiger, no?
Frank, in the article Dan states he didn't like the performance of leopard and went with tiger instead and it works great. He says he has some quirks to work out but it's functioning with 2gb's of left over drive space.
Sometimes I get so excited I don't bother reading the entire article. Reading is overrated anyways. That laptop should come with Ubuntu anyways.
Someone should put BeOS on one of these...then id be impressed
Why dont YOU do it yourself?
BeOS 5 Pro doesn't like P4-class machines, unfortunately. This uses a core closer to a P3, so I don't know if it would work or not. It might have issues with the chipset.
The free BeOS 5 Max based on an updated BeOS 5 PE might work, and Zeta would likely work as well.
I want to get a 4GB SD card and load it up with various OS images that I can easily throw on the device at a whim, for just this purpose :)
The post of this on lifehacker mentioned that Leopard ran very slow. He settled for Tiger on the system and was impressed with the results.
Pretty much the cheapest Mac Laptop you can find to browse the internet and do a little word processing.
nah
old iBooks are probably cheaper and faster
Depends on what you are looking for. The Eee is like 2 lbs, tiny, and brand new. I'd like to see what kind of condition an iBook would be in that you could purchase for $400. Probably wouldn't even have an aiport card.
That's good that for comparison's sake the iBook will be without an Airport card, because the wireless on the eee under either Leopard or Tiger DOES NOT WORK.
WRONG!!!
My sister got an iBook 1.42 with 1.25 gbs of RAM AND airport AND bluetooth AND a 3 year apple care warranty for 450$ on craig's list...just 50 more.
We got it from the Burlington Vermont section, I see deals on them all the time! Look your self...
I see how this is cool. But if ur just gonna use it to browse the internet and word proc then all that work for OSX is a waste. unless your just a true mac fanboy.
Not that I would ever endorse such a hack, but... it's nice to test webpages in Safari if you're a developer. The EEE would be small enough to take with you on trips along with your real computer, and the full OSX and Safari would mean you'd be able to check your pages easily.
Really, what more than web browsing would such a machine need to do in that situation?
Its also nice to test web pages at more than 800x480 resolution. I can see all kinds of great applications for one of these and web design is NOT one of them.
I'm pretty sure that Konquerer uses the same rendering engine as safari
Doesn't safari for windows use the same engine.....
Someone get Windows ME running on this!
Windows ME? I'd take Microsoft Bob!
Safari is available for Windows too. You can run Windows on this thing without breaking any EULAs.
Maybe Steve will pull this out of his pants next spring?...
don't kid yourself. Let's be honest, mac fanboys want steve to pull something a little more Ṃễậty than this out of his pants...
$400 for the Laptop
$80 for Leopard
The skill the to do this: Priceless
Man, you buy an Eee so you DON'T have to run any CrApple or M$ OS on it!
Exactly. It's impressive that it *can* run Leopard or Vista, but on a box like this, I'd stick with a Linux install.
VIDEOS!!! I demand proof! That is utterly cool.
Many people managed to dual boot windows Vista/XP and Mac OS X 10.4 on their PCs successfully; thanks to "project OSx86"
Leopard recipe does not differ much too, so I wont be surprised if someone boot it using Asus Eee
Check http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page for more info
why haven't Apple released a small laptop like this?, there is a massive market for ultra portable devices and to find one that you don't have to run the tragic Vista on is great even better with Leopard.
Massive market? No there ain't. All these umpcs are lame and slow. Everyone wants these ultra mobile pc's but, then they start to cry when it won't do something. It wont play HD! It doesn't have a TV tuner! It can't play WoW! It only holds eight gigs? My ipod holds 160! Everyone wants their own pc's shrank to 1/8 the size with a 12hour battery life. There is no mass market for what no consumers can agree on.
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Sorry what I meant was there is massive potential market for these devices and you are right most current UMPC's are underpowered and they struggle to manage with basic built in apps, but what you are doing is thinking these devices are laptops they are not, nor do I imagine they are designed for any of the uses you have listed. If you use an UMPC regularly you would know they are good for specific tasks but are not suitable for serious work, their size will not permit anyone to use them for the length of time one would use a desktop or a regular sized laptop.
That's awesome! Really makes me want a Eee PC more.
Here's an article I wrote on how to get Tiger on to your PC:
http://lemonlimedesigns.ca/blogs/index.php/tips/installing-mac-os-x-on-a-windows-pc
I want to make them into Windows Server 2008 Core (No GUI) blades. :o
DOS for the win!
Im not much of an apple fan, but I might get one just to have Leopard on. Its always good to be familiar with other OSs.
The possibilities this carries just make me want to get one! They are pretty cheap to!
can the Eee pc play wow (world of warcraft)?
@Mick - Yes it can.
Alright, ive tried the following out on the Eee: XP, Xandros, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, and Mandriva 2008. After trying them all ive stuck with XP for various reasons. Any other Linux distro other than the standard one has some major problems. Mind you, they are problems that can be worked out but either way you lose the ability to quickboot and at time even the ability to shutdown without a hard shutdown.
Xp though, with a small amount of tinkering to make it stay 800x480 without the irritating asus utility process running as well as the sound driver and other bugs, runs everything quite nice. XP also has a, get this, 12 second boot with the proper startup items. Although, i dont recommend a standard XP install, using nlite to tone the size and unnecessary ram usage down is a great solution.
Youve gotta hand it to microsoft. Their most popular product has worked like a charm in more cases than one.