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OSx86 Boots on an Ultra Mobile PC

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The Register is reporting on OnlyUMPC.com members' efforts to boot hacked OSx86 on their Ultra Mobile PCs, and it appears they were quite successful. A few interesting pictures, as well as a video of the slow boot times (small size means slower processors after all) have been posted. Now if only these things weren't so expensive, we'd finally have a new Apple PDA. Screenshots and video.

 

Thanks to Alessandro17 and guiyoforward for the heads up in Reader News.

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Takuro

Part of me wonders how they managed to actually retain the touch-screen functionality. I guess a pressure-sensitive screen that gives x,y coordinates isn't too complicated to set up in place of a mouse. It's pretty impressive.

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Lostgame

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Yeah, it's called writing a driver to make the touch-screen be in place of a mouse.

 

Incredibly impressive effort, the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell. But slow as hell... :S

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Colonel
the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell.

What's that supposed to mean? I'm sure just about everyone here would agree that just getting OS X to run on genuine PC's is the best thing to come out of OSx86.

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sHARD>>
What's that supposed to mean? I'm sure just about everyone here would agree that just getting OS X to run on genuine PC's is the best thing to come out of OSx86.

 

He's not into OSx86. Not everyone is :P

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milesce

Funny, because yesterday I was reading up on attempts to get the Treo 650 to run Linux. I'd love it if I could get OSX or Linux running instead of Palm OS.

 

I suspect I'll be waiting a while. They've got it booting linux, but no phone software written yet. Ah, well. Can't have everything.

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Danyel
Incredibly impressive effort, the only real good thing to come out of the OSx86 thing so far, as I can tell. But slow as hell... :S

 

Watching OSx86 work with touch screen was impressive.

 

Getting OSx86 installed on various machines and actually having it work is just amazing (IMHO). So far I've installed on Dell Inspiron 1150, Custom mPC 915, Dell Inspiron 1300 and Dell Dimension 4600. The Dell 4600's graphics just screams with ATI Card.

 

--danyel :D

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