Yesterday, Apple didn't announce a netbook. When asked why, Jobs replied "That's a nascent market that's just getting started, and we'll see how it goes."
Nascent it may be, but it isn't stopping people rolling their own OS X netbooks. We did it here at Gadget Lab (in fact, I just put in a new, Apple-supported wireless card this morning — more on that soon), and now Flung, over at NetBook Tech, has managed it with Lenovo's new IdeaPad S10, which we previously declared "The Best Netbook We've Seen All Year."
Flung has posted an exhaustive how-to, suitable for n00bs and veterans alike. He used the same WindOSx86 distribution that we did (although we actually rolled our own with the help of one of its creators, Stellarolla), and the initial part looks to be as easy as it was for us. Because WindOSx86 is optimized for the MSI Wind and its variants (hence the name), Flung had to iron out a few problems using the command line, and even then not everything worked out of the box:
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Thankfully, Flung provides links to the needed extras (kernel extensions, mostly) needed to fix things up. Like the Wind, the S10 still doesn't run OS X 100 percent: The mike and headphone jacks are dead, as is Ethernet and, alarmingly, the sleep mode. But unlike the Wind, WiFi is fine (the S10 uses the a Broadcom card, the same brand used by Apple).
We're certainly not getting tired of these hacks. It's getting easier and easier, thanks to the fine work of real hackers who run the OSx86 project. So easy, in fact, that — if you are prepared to wipe a working install and break a few license agreements — we'd say it would make a great first hacking project.
Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10 [NetBook Tech. Thanks, Michael and Felix!]
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