Comments on: Reliable instructions for OSX on the EeePC

By: obz

obz — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:21:39 +0000

@rich

take it back to the person you stole it from and ask them.

By: Mikuro

Mikuro — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:12:52 +0000

@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)

By: Mikuro

Mikuro — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:01:32 +0000

@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.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:35:50 +0000

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

By: Luc_Besson

Luc_Besson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:58:23 +0000

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.

By: antiver

antiver — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:24:59 +0000

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?)

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:23:53 +0000

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

By: lolwut

lolwut — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:14:50 +0000

> mewse
You should really read the article sometime:

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

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:35:29 +0000

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.

By: Nitori

Nitori — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:30:28 +0000

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.

By: Coderer

Coderer — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:40:33 +0000

@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…

By: matt

matt — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:42:27 +0000

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.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:05:36 +0000

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

By: joe

joe — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:33:42 +0000

“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”…

By: steve

steve — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:29:56 +0000

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.