Netbook OSX Redux

Now that the new macbooks are out in the market, it is quite obvious that Cupertino will not be turning out any netbook version anytime soon. According to Steve Jobs, the iPhone is as close as they will ever get to a netbook except for the price.

In a teleconference last October 21, Jobs practically categorized the netbook as junk,

"There are some customers which we chose not to serve," he added. "We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve. And there's a lot of them."

As a satisfied Apple customer for the past one and a half years, I am not one to question the logic behind this "business strategy." However, I totally disagree with categorizing the $500 netbooks as junk. In a recent blog, I wrote about how much I am loving the Asus eee 1000H with OS X installed (via hackintosh) that it has become my everyday mobile device. Yesterday, a friend asked me to get him an exact same machine.

I decided this time to get a black Asus eee 1000H with OSX Leopard installed from my friend SHINRAI. I even airbrushed an Apple logo just for kicks. As I have said before, everything works fine with the Netbook OSX except for the ethernet. All of the software that I have installed on my Macbook 13" and the MacBook Pro 17" are running without any issues in the eee PC. You can see the size comparison between the MacBook Pro and the Netbook OSX in the pictures below:

And here is a pic beside the HP 2710p Tablet PC with a 12" screen;

Junk or no junk, the Netbook OSX will reside permanently in my gadget bag.

 

 

Comments

[WilliamB]

Hi, I was saving to buy my first Macbook , but now due to loosing my first job I can not really afford paying the Macbook price, so ive had to get my self an Asus eee 1000H , now seeing the new Aluminum Macbooks it really makes me sad, any way so ive now got a new 1000H , and would really like to put Apple Leoprd on it, but as I am a bit of a new comer to computers can you please advise me where I can find the information that's not too much for a new comer to understand, i would ask my farther but he is not home much thank you William

[Nap]

@WILLIAM B,

PM sent :-)

[Tycho]

Great work, and thanks for the 'jobs quote.. definitely passed it around!
I'd like to know how much harder it was to get around the usual hackintosh suspects (native rez., Wifi, Mic in/out + speakers)with the 1000 series from EEE. I'd like to reward Asus for their pioneering spirit and well for giving us this whole netbook competition.. though I'm worried considering the Wind's Hackintosh process is probably at the end of my technical expertise.

Did you have to replace the internal Wifi card?
Would you recommend doing that over a Mac com. Usb Wifi?

Thanks!
Ps. and if there's a forum answering all these questions, you can just point me at that! =D

[Nap]

If you're here in Manila, I can help you install it. You can also get my guide here: http://rapidshare.com/files/161046837/GuidesMacOSXEee.zip.html . From Technocop's friend @shinrai ([email protected])

[Rerto Jordans]

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