One of the great things about the Eee PC is that, unlike a $400 PDA or phone, the $400 laptop is a full fledged computer that just happens to weigh less than 2 pounds.And while Asus went through a lot of work to load a customized Linux interface onto the Eee PC, the company also made it pretty easy to slap your own operating system on there. In fact, the Eee PC ships with instructions for wiping the hard drive and installing Windows XP (if you happen to have a Windows XP installation disc and a USB DVD drive).
And if you can install Windows, that means you can install Mac OS X. Not officially, of course. Apple only sells OS X licenses for Apple-labeled machines. But the folks over that OSx86 project have been tinkering with ways to install OS X on PCs ever since Apple started to support Intel chips.
So it was only a matter of time until someone went and installed Leopard on an Eee PC. You'll need to get your hands on Leopard disc image, either by making one yourself or from other means that we won't go into here. Leopard reportedly is something less than a speed demon on the Eee PC's 900MHz celeron processor and 512MB of RAM. But we could have predicted that.
If you mess up your computer beyond belief, you can use the restore disc that Asus shipped with the Eee PC. But we still probably wouldn't recommend this hack for anyone who doesn't know what the word "kernel" means.
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11-15-2007 @ 8:58PM
kojo87 said...
"900MHz celeron processor and 512MB of RAM"
yeah you might have a little trouble running Vista Ultimate on that. i wonder what the score would be...
i think i may get one of these before i go to college. i have a nice desktop so i dont really need one. but a lappy would be nice for mobile web browsing and word processing. doesnt have to do anything more.
is it easy enough to install other Linux distros on this thing?
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11-16-2007 @ 8:10AM
darome said...
I was wondering if anybody tried to hack the hardware on the eeepc yet and add more ram?? There should be no real reason why it can't be updated except for the warranty of course , but if you are hacking its a given that you loose the warranty anyways n'est pas? I was think if you could get the ram up to 2 gb and install an decent flash drive like 8gb which are pretty cheap these days , you got yourself a killer. Any ideas????
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11-17-2007 @ 12:37PM
Jamar said...
Go for Tiger instead. Installation's much easier (install disc image is pre-patched, it's so easy anyone can do it) and it's more compatible with stuff (networking, especially, but this doesn't have an Intel wireless card so that's nothing to worry about). I use a Panasonic with OS X- Tiger boots up twice as fast as XP and is generally more responsive.
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11-21-2007 @ 7:53PM
assabakie said...
yeah.. u can install this great os to any pc that have a supported CPU - minimum required is SS2 even the mhz is 900. i think this Eee pc has it..
anyone?
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12-04-2007 @ 8:39AM
Nick said...
This site has tutorials for installing different OS's to the EEEpc http://eeetutorials.blogspot.com
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