Comments on: Acer notebook running Mac OS X 10.5 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/acer-notebook-running-mac-os-x-105/ Flash Platform Consultant Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:47:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ashvin Savani - Arckid http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/acer-notebook-running-mac-os-x-105/#comment-18183 Ashvin Savani - Arckid Thu, 01 May 2008 17:19:54 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/?p=560#comment-18183 Peter, I also installed it on USB harddisk before for my Thinkpad X61 tablet having 4 gigs of ram. Except HDD operations, was working fine and was able to get resolution of 1400 x 1050 (I dont remember height exactly) with dual monitor support. It was a great experience. Will try to install Windows and Mac together on laptop's harddrive and will see how it works. About legal-illegal, as you said - take a risk ;) Peter,

I also installed it on USB harddisk before for my Thinkpad X61 tablet having 4 gigs of ram. Except HDD operations, was working fine and was able to get resolution of 1400 x 1050 (I dont remember height exactly) with dual monitor support. It was a great experience.

Will try to install Windows and Mac together on laptop’s harddrive and will see how it works.

About legal-illegal, as you said - take a risk ;)

]]> By: Peter http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/acer-notebook-running-mac-os-x-105/#comment-18182 Peter Thu, 01 May 2008 17:00:09 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/?p=560#comment-18182 @savvasmalamas - I've not tested it extensively as a development machine, with 512Mb RAM I'm not really considering running Eclipse or Flex Builder on it. Software I've tested so far runs pretty well and have had no crashes so far. The display driver is not perfect, can currently only run on 1024x768 but there might be something out there that fixes this. @ashvin - the jury is out on whether its legal, certainly Apple's EULA doesn't allow OS X to run on non-Apple hardware but there is debate on whether that is enforcible. I own a copy of Leopard and wanted to try this as a bit of a geeky challenge -- won't give any legal advice on whether or not to do it so proceed at your own risk ;) @savvasmalamas - I’ve not tested it extensively as a development machine, with 512Mb RAM I’m not really considering running Eclipse or Flex Builder on it.

Software I’ve tested so far runs pretty well and have had no crashes so far. The display driver is not perfect, can currently only run on 1024×768 but there might be something out there that fixes this.

@ashvin - the jury is out on whether its legal, certainly Apple’s EULA doesn’t allow OS X to run on non-Apple hardware but there is debate on whether that is enforcible.

I own a copy of Leopard and wanted to try this as a bit of a geeky challenge — won’t give any legal advice on whether or not to do it so proceed at your own risk ;)

]]> By: savvasmalamas http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/acer-notebook-running-mac-os-x-105/#comment-18181 savvasmalamas Thu, 01 May 2008 16:34:11 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/?p=560#comment-18181 Nice Pet. Except the airport issue is there anything else that makes it non stable environment for using it as a main dev machine? Nice Pet.
Except the airport issue is there anything else that makes it non stable
environment for using it as a main dev machine?

]]> By: Ashvin Savani - Arckid http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2008/05/01/acer-notebook-running-mac-os-x-105/#comment-18180 Ashvin Savani - Arckid Thu, 01 May 2008 16:16:42 +0000 http://www.peterelst.com/blog/?p=560#comment-18180 Hi, Is it leagal to install Mac OS on non mac hardware, considering that You own a legal copy of OS but not the hardware. Hi,

Is it leagal to install Mac OS on non mac hardware, considering that You own a legal copy of OS but not the hardware.

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