Run Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) on a Dell Mini 9 [Archive]

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tarheel23

Oct 2, 2008, 04:53 PM

Thought this was cool. Has anyone tried this? I wish there was a way to run it on a Acer Aspire..The 16GB SSD on a Dell Mini is too little space for me. Id love to have this to bring to class if the Mini Macbook rumor turns out false...

http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2008/10/13519/

MisterMe

Oct 2, 2008, 06:49 PM

This is a violation of the MacOS X EULA.

Rivix

Oct 2, 2008, 07:07 PM

This is a violation of the MacOS X EULA.

True, but it's interesting.

ChrisA

Oct 2, 2008, 07:12 PM

This is a violation of the MacOS X EULA.

We argue this twice a week. The counter argument is the MacOS X EULA may itself be a violation of contract law. No one has a definitive answer. The argument is that a contact or "agreement" is only binding if both parties agree to it and Apple does not offer a reasonable way to not agree. But this has been argued 1,000 times.

In practice Apple seems not to care if people do this themselves in ones and tows but only gets upset if you set up a company to sell mac clones.

wako

Oct 3, 2008, 08:37 AM

this makes it very tempting to buy a mini 9...

however im wondering if two finger scrolling would work :D

belvdr

Oct 3, 2008, 08:50 AM

this makes it very tempting to buy a mini 9...

however im wondering if two finger scrolling would work :D

It doesn't. This was answered in the article.

shadowmoses

Oct 3, 2008, 03:17 PM

Pretty cool, something well worth trying and as I have some spare cash and time may well give it a go, depending on what Apple release this October......

Thanks for posting this up,

ShadoW

JW8725

Oct 3, 2008, 07:21 PM

I did post about this, I'm struggling to count down the days till a new macbook refresh and I may just bite the bullet and buy a Dell mini 9.

This would be the 1st time in my life I actually bought a Dell as opposed to having been given one.

The missus likes it too! :)

NATO

Oct 6, 2008, 06:50 AM

I had an Acer Aspire One (SATA Hard Drive version) and it was surprisingly fast for a computer of its size and price. I had Leopard, Vista and XP on it and all three ran exceptionally well. To be honest, I was astounded how well they ran as I really was expecting a serious performance tradeoff due to the size of the computer...

The only problem with Leopard is it's not as easy to update the system to the latest point release of OS X and not everything works as it should (saying that, the only problems I really had was that for some reason file sharing was a bit dodgy, the WiFi didn't work with the standard card installed and I got a kernel panic when it was shut down).