I would REALLY like to setup an OSX PC, something beefier than this one, but hardware selection is a real chore so I’ve held off. I just might be tempted to do this though as cheap as it is! Would love to see more step by step guides like this one :D

Posted at 9:05 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by BLKMGK

Uhm, where can Winds be had that cheap? When I’ve seen them, they’ve been in the $300-400 range, starting out.

Posted at 9:24 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by Hellmark

@hellmark: desktop wind, not laptop.

Posted at 9:27 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by andrew

Ignore that last comment. Ignorance on my part.

Posted at 9:29 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by Hellmark

any idea on what the performance is like? i’d love to see a YouTube video of what it looks like if anybody else does it. 1.2ghz doesn’t seem to fast, but the price point is great.

Posted at 11:56 am on Dec 31st, 2008 by george

It’s not 1,2 GHz – it’s 1,6 GHz Please correct this.

Posted at 12:50 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by Per Jensen

blkmagic, I did the same thing with a Dell Optiplex 620. 3-ish gig CPU makes it a little tiny bit snappier…

Posted at 1:16 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by drummi

Haha, i was looking through and thinking, “Hey, thats pretty neat!” then i noticed the 12 mbps part…

>.<

Posted at 2:44 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by larlar125

can any video or sound card be added

other ways its just cool not super cool

Posted at 3:24 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by rafael

The motherboard has not PCI slots on it for upgrades, and the ram is laptop ram. Its more likely a laptop motherboard in a case, say, The MacMini.

Posted at 4:33 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by Mr Novack

Nice!
Folks have been installing OSX on the netbooks and the on board hardware is pretty much the same so this makes perfect sense.

I just built an awesome home file/print server using this exact box.
It’s a barebones so you have to BYO ram and sata HD/optical drives.

and yep it was 139.99 from newegg.

Mine has 2gb ram, 2TB of storage and is running Windows XP Pro from a 16gb compact flash card.

When the drives spin down and the printer goes to sleep the whole rig draws about 30 watts and the fan is barely making any noise at all.
(according to my ups display anyway)

great stuff!

Posted at 5:08 pm on Dec 31st, 2008 by strider_mt2k

You would get a pretty reliable OSX machine for 1/5 of the money: Just buy a Dell Optiplex slimline PC, tinker a bit, and off you go.

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

barridh yes please compose a list of all the things we could have done _other_ than this.

that would be useful, right?

Posted at 6:51 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by strider_mt2k

LOL @ Strider_mt2k

Posted at 10:04 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by guides@uselessninjas.com

Anyone know if you can get any wireless Mini-PCI Express cards to work with this by any chance?

Posted at 10:53 am on Jan 2nd, 2009 by pjnofrills

I believe all Intel ones are automatically recognized, I do know that several cards work so it wouldn’t be too difficult to get it working, the pci works exactly the same as a normal laptop, so anything that has been proven to work with OSX will work with this.

Posted at 12:43 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by guides@uselessninjas.com

If you can get your hands on the MSIWindosx86.iso disc(torrent). Then it should be easier to install Leopard 10.5.4 on the MSI. The disc was made for the msi wind laptop but should work on the board here.
I used this disc on my Dell Mini 9 and everything worked except for hibernation.

Posted at 3:59 pm on Jan 2nd, 2009 by justpaul

Gotta love that new iPhone 3G s, might get one if I can find a good AT&T plan with it

Posted at 8:32 am on Jun 26th, 2009 by splitsplut