April 29, 2008
Hacked OQO may be smallest Mac ever
Posted Apr. 29, ’08, 9:01 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Geekery
If the MacBook Air just isn’t portable enough for you, but you want something a little more than an iPhone, there haven’t been a lot of options in the Mac arena to date. Windows users, meanwhile, have had the choice of using handheld computers like the OQO. Of course, the OQO is really just a very small PC, and as the Psytar clone wars have shown us, you can run OS X on pretty much anything you can run Windows on these days.
A user at the OQO Talk forums, going by the handle trf, claims to have gotten Leopard running on an OQO, dual-booting alongside Windows. The process is apparently not for the faint of heart, and there are still some lingering issues (getting the WWAN support working seems to be the biggest of them), but you can take a gander at this video to see the setup in action.
From what I can see, the performance looks a wee bit sluggish in some aspects (look how long it takes the icons to appear in Cover Flow); I attribute that to the OQO’s fairly lackluster graphics chipset and the 1GB of RAM ceiling. It does, however, appear to work, which is admittedly pretty darn cool.
How about it, readers? Does this setup get your salivary glands working overtime, or is it merely shrugworthy?
[via Gizmodo]
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OK Apple, time to license MacOSX! There's all sorts of hardware out there that Apple simply doesn't have the capacity to design and make. I think it'd be great to be able to run MacOSX on them. If not a full license, how about an unsupported license, one that states Apple will not provide any tech supprt to non-Apple hardware?
I'm guessing this is a great example of why you want to tailor the OS to the form factor. Apple didn't create the iPhone OS just for fun. The full OS (and large-screen/keyboard/mouse optimized UI) doesn't work well enough to make it useful.