X25-M SSD in netbook hackintosh

[leonstafford]

I needed a notebook quick and only had $500, and the used Macs started at $720 here in a big computer store in Japan. So, having used an MSI Wind netbook hackintosh before, I grabbed a similar Acer Aspire One A150 netbook for $250 and grabbed a new X25-M 80GB for about the same $250.

The A150 is a total pain to swap hard drives, unlike the Wind, but everything went fine and installed an osx86 10.5.7 distro easily (SL requires more brain cells than I had time for!).

The system seems fast. Is 100% SILENT until the fan kicks in. I haven't run any big tests on it, it's still stocking the default 1GB RAM only which is likely bottlenecking a lot of processes, but it's a capable machine so far.

I will likely move the SSD into my desktop now as I'm finished with my immediate need for a laptop, and with 4GB RAM and a Celeron D vs an Atom CPU I'm sure it will be more in line with the X25-M screencasts on Youtube...

I think the prices of these are way too high, but if you are an enthusiast, please go out and buy one!

Here's some random pix of the swap process:

 

[rgarjr]

nice hack. Those A1' are nice to do some hardware hacking/modding.

 

[leonstafford]

I'm getting around to doing the SL upgrade now. It's FLYING through the install, using a mounted image. No sound but the fan...

I think I'll have to do something about that pesky fan noise next to have all silence all the time...

 

[leonstafford]

Just an update,

I took it out of the A150 shortly after as the speed increase from the disk wasnt enough to make that machine my main workhorse, I have it running in my desktop hackintosh, soon to be back to linux machine, where it flies much better.

I was getting some random freezes which I imagined where SSD related but very rarely...

its totally silent, no heat whatsoever and if it was cheaper, I'd buy them by the dozen now

for media centers, the no noise, no heat thing is a biggie...