Just installed OSX 10.5.2 on my HP Pavilion dv9700t laptop. It’s a great OS, though the Intel A/G/N WiFi card I have isn’t supported, which really kills it for me (can only use it when I’m in my room where there’s Ethernet).

Posted at 3:12 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by CalcProgrammer1

Assuming that “most people” want a Mac (netbook) ? I say, what has become of this site?

Posted at 3:39 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by tsurugi

It’s called a Macbook Air.

Posted at 4:15 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by Matt

Does anyone have a good comparison between the Eee Pc and the MSI Wind? I need a cross reference of features really.

Posted at 5:15 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by Alex ~

no sound support is a pretty huge deal-breaker.

Posted at 8:24 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by mewse

“I say, what has become of this site?”
REALLY, really sucks doesn’t it?

I miss the good ‘ol days..

Posted at 8:57 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by pip

Well I don’t know about you guys but when I had a mac; it ran linux f’ macs anyways all they are supposed to do are look pretty and last 2 years. I’ve got a dual core Athlon64 toshiba laptop running gentoo and I love it so much more then any of the 3 osx macs I’ve owned.

Posted at 10:29 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by steve

“Like most people, what we really want is a Mac netbook.”

Welcome to macaday.com? I think you mean “Like other people that prefer Macs and want a netbook, what _I_ really want is a Mac netbook”…

Posted at 1:33 am on Sep 24th, 2008 by joe

pip’s just unhappy because his “tie your own shoelaces” hack was rejected.

Posted at 5:05 am on Sep 24th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

shhhh… don’t tell the apple-o-philes, OSX is BSD… (only with a custom display manager and some proprietary software). Their hardware (the brushed aluminum stuff not the plastic monstrosities) is nice though if you can get past the anti-clone policies and can deal with light up logos.

Posted at 7:42 am on Sep 24th, 2008 by matt

@matt: For the price of a MacBook Air, you can get like 8 of these. My biggest question is, how does it perform? I mean, I’m sure you can tweak some settings down, but I tried running OSX way back when on a G3 desktop and it *crawled* — it was unusable. I think the specs on a EEE are probably even worse…

Posted at 8:40 am on Sep 24th, 2008 by Coderer

The lastest Eeepc uses an Atom with is about as fast as a 900Mhz Celeron so yes it is likely about as fast as later G3 ibooks but with a crappier video card.
But I found OX more then usable on an upgraded beige G3 mac so I guess it would run faster then Vista or even XP.
But I have found the X86 version of OSX a little more memory hungry then the PPC version.
Though Vista and XP can be made fast and light using nlite and vlite.

Posted at 10:30 pm on Sep 24th, 2008 by Nitori

If nothing works would it not be simpler and useful to install XP or linux with an OSX background/theme? Same look but more functionality.

Posted at 5:35 am on Sep 25th, 2008 by Wwhat

> mewse
You should really read the article sometime:

“Many users report success with cheap USB audio dongles.”

Posted at 10:14 am on Sep 25th, 2008 by lolwut

Nice. Even MacEEE.com has a very good guide.
BTW, Like the 901, is Asus going to add HSUPA to 1000H ?

Posted at 12:23 am on Sep 28th, 2008 by Jash Sayani

is there anyway to get one of the newer releases of OS X? (i.e. can you update kalyway past 10.5.2 or something?)

Posted at 5:24 pm on Oct 13th, 2008 by antiver

why does a small dual-core [and yes they are dual core before you say anything] 1.6ghz Atom translate to a fat 900Mhz Celeron?

oh yea thats right, it doesnt.

Posted at 11:58 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by Luc_Besson

im locked out of my eeepc via the password how can i get around this

Posted at 5:35 am on Feb 21st, 2009 by rich

@Luc_Besson

They do, actually, the atom cpu’s in the current eee’s are not dual core, they have hyperthreading which allows for better multithreading (and causes it to show as two ‘cores’ in a lot of programs, like windows task manager). The celeron cpu used in the older eee’s are more effecient per clock and match up quite well with the 1.6Ghz atoms.

Posted at 4:01 am on Feb 24th, 2009 by Mikuro

@rich

if you mean the BIOS (bootup) password:
Try taking out the power connector and battery for a few hours or overnight, this seems to have worked for some people. [http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=30103]

if you mean an OS password:
try google to find help on your particular OS, or simply reinstall it. (or email me, at myusername@mywebsite.co.nz)

Posted at 3:12 pm on Feb 24th, 2009 by Mikuro