I ordered my Mini 9 a couple of weeks ago with Windows XP installed, simply because it showed a delivery date two weeks before the Linux model would ship. On October 3rd, after missing one visit by the DHL delivery dude, my hardware arrived. My personal reason is that I often travel to locations where I don't necessarily want to subject a $2,000 computer to harsh conditions or possible theft, but US$500 wouldn't be too much of a loss. Perhaps you want something smaller in size than a MacBook Air or regular MacBook. Other than the vicarious thrill of running OS X on a non-Apple device, why would someone want to do this? Maybe you don't want to spend US$1,000 - $3,000 for a laptop that runs OS X. The Intel Atom is an extremely low power processor code-named "Diamondville", and my initial tests show battery life to be in the four-hour range. The total price tag, including shipping, handling, and taxes was $530.90 (base price was less than $500). Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950 Intel Atom Processor N270 (1.6 GHz,/533 MHz FSB/512 K cache) This Dell Inspiron Mini 9 came configured as follows: After this experiment is done, I'm considering installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix just to keep my conscience unmuddled.
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There's only one way to avoid violating the Mac OS X license - don't install Mac OS X on a non-Apple machine. If Apple wants to take you to court, they can, and there's a good chance they'd win (we think).
Pretty scary, huh? Currently Apple's EULA is being tested in court, but since we TUAW bloggers are not lawyers and we are not in the business of giving legal advice, you are proceeding at your own risk.
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That agreement states that "You agree not to install, use or run the Apple software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or enable others to do so." The rest of this post describes how I did it using instructions and files found at various Web sites.īefore you begin rolling your own little Leopard laptop, you should realize that doing this is in violation of the Mac OS X end-user licensing agreement. It wasn't until I received a direct mail catalog from Dell featuring the new Inspiron Mini 9 that I started thinking seriously about trying to load Leopard on it.ĭespite the fact that I'm sure that Apple will announce a low-cost netbook soon, I ended up buying a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook to install Leopard onto.
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However, they usually run Windows XP or Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and frankly I'd rather have good old Leopard.Īsus has been making netbooks for a while under the Eee PC moniker, while MSI (Wind), Acer (Aspire One), and even HP have jumped into this growing market recently. When you consider that these little machines also weigh about the same or less than a MacBook Air, they're a bargain. Many netbooks sell for less than $500, with 1 GB of RAM, either a 16 - 20 GB solid state disk drive or 160 GB hard disk drive, Wi-Fi, and a built-in webcam. Netbooks are tiny laptops with a mini price tag to match. TUAW's Mike Schramm further fueled the fire with this post about an Eee PC running OS X. The initial spark for this challenge came when I wrote a post a few months ago about how Paul O'Brien at Modaco had successfully installed Leopard on a Windows-based "netbook". I can always tell when I'm bored, because that's when I think up some challenge for myself.
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