[Leica] Totally OT: OSX on a tiny laptop?

[mark at whitedogs.co.uk (Mark Pope)]

Nathan,
I know someone who put OSX on to an Acer Aspire one (I think) - just to 
prove that it could be done and tick off a colleague with a Macbook air.

I have a HP2133 netbook, which is currently running Ubuntu with the 
Gnome desktop.  It's a lovely little machine, but one thing that I find 
a slight problem is the size of the screen.  It's high resolution (can't 
remember the specs), and whilst it's usable, it's often quite hard work. 
  Also, the processor power of netbooks is limited, so there isn't much 
grunt there.  It's probable that running applications like Lightroom 
would be very slow.

I recently bought a Macbook and since I've had this, the netbook hasn't 
been touched.

My Netbook also has a high capacity battery - the original gives about 
1-2 hours of use.  The high capacity gives me 4-4.5 hours if I'm lucky, 
but it's at the expense of weight.  I haven't compared them, but I 
wouldn't be surprised if the Netbook with high capacity battery weighs 
as much, if not more than my Macbook.

Cheers

Mark


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Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I have been looking at the new, super-cheap tiny laptops like the Eee. 
> It is very tempting to have a laptop so small that it would fit into my 
> Domke 803 bag. The only problem is that all the models I have seen run 
> Linux or Windows. I have no desire to learn a new operating system, or 
> to return to Windows. This brings me to my question: is it 
> possible/doable to buy one of those thingies and install OSX on it so 
> that  I could run Apple software on it?
> 
> TIA,
> Nathan
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