can anyone out there install mac os on my first gen asus net book
Patrick
Per the MacOS X EULA, it is only legal to install MacOS X on Apple branded hardware.
A would-be hackintosher (http://www.hackintosh.com/), eh? The hackintosh hardware of choice seems to be the Dell Mini 9 (http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook). But even a general search without benefit of your the model number of your Asus returns lots of hits:
http://www.google.com/search?q=os+x+on+asus
Is it legal? Well as already posted, it is a violation of Apple's EULA.
Would Apple sue a company selling hackintoshes? You bet, see Pystar (http://www.macworld.com/article/134524/2008/07/psystar_lawsuit.html).
Would Apple also sue an individual for violation of that EULA? And if they did, what damages would they claim, if you paid for an OS X license for this purpose, and if your hackintosh was for, as they say, educational purposes? Now that's the question. A search of Google turns up lots of non-lawyers weighing in, and while fascinating reading, it is inconclusive. Here's a sampling:
Building a Hackintosh Apple Can't Sue You For (http://www.osnews.com/story/21564)
Thom Holwerda, 26th May 2009, OSnews.com
Is Making Your Own Hackintosh Legal? (http://lowendmac.com/ed/fox/09ff/hackintosh-legality.html)
Lowendmac.com Frank Fox, March 12, 2009
Rob Griffiths of Macworld (http://www.macworld.com/search.html?cx=003198751674731024891%3Aovffo1orlum&q=rob+griffiths&sa=search&client=idg-cse&cof=FORID%3A11) and MacOSXHints (http://macosxhints.com) fame documented his Hackintosh (http://www.macworld.com/article/133028/2008/04/building_mac_clone.html) last April 2008. Rob of course explicitly states that "to make your machine run Mac OS X, you have to violate the OS X end-user license agreement—and perhaps copyright law, depending on how you get things done." But on the other hand, his article is still on-line at macworld.com after over a year.
One of the issues of installing OS X on a laptop is the specialized drivers that may or may not be needed for the laptop-only hardware such as Power Management, trackpad, wireless, bluetooth, camera, ...
Here's a chart illustrating these issues as a function of laptop type:
http://gizmodo.com/5322698/mac-os-x-netbook-compatibility-chart-updated
From today's Gizmodo.com, the gadget blog:
Best Buy Acknowledges the Obvious, Puts Hackintoshed Dell Netbook On Display
By John Herrman, 4:52 PM on Tue Aug 11 2009
http://gizmodo.com/5335195/best-buy-acknowledges-the-obvious-displays-hackintoshed-dell-mini-9
From the article:
"Everyone involved knows exactly why (http://gizmodo.com/5325775/the-state-of-hackintosh-which-netbooks-to-hack) certain Dell netbooks are in such high demand (http://gizmodo.com/5333862/the-dell-ultimate-hackintosh-mini-9-back-for-299), but nobody can outright say it, officially. That didn't stop one Best Buy—or at least, one of its employees—from coming clean..."
Me, I'll wait for the Mac tablet...
Quote from: ben schmidt on August 11, 2009, 09:57:01 PM
Me, I'll wait for the Mac tablet...
If it has solid handwriting recognition, it'll be a killer product. But if it's just a giant iPod Touch, I'll be less interested.
In any case, I expect that a Dell Mini running OS X is cheaper than the Mac Tablet will be.
Dell Mini 9 is definitely the way to go...
It takes a bit of patience, but everything will work near-perfectly.
It'll cost you the same as buying a used iBook, but much more mobile and faster.
The Dell Mini 10v works perfectly with OS X 10.6.3. As with other such installations, a couple of utilities are needed to make the installation and updates work.
The Dell Mini 10v has been discontinued as of last month (April 2010) but can still be had new for a low price. Replace the 1GB RAM with 2GB RAM and the result is a very light, full-featured, small computer running the best commercial operating system on the market today.
However, as noted elsewhere in this old thread, thou violatest thy EULA.