Zit Seng's Superwall

Do you fancy Mac OS X on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10? The S10 is a nice cool-looking netbook, and Mac OS X is a nice cool operating system. The problem, of course, is that you could not legally buy Mac OS X to install in the Lenovo IdeaPad S10. That, however, has not stopped plenty of people all over the world from trying to install Mac OS X on their non-Apple hardware. See the photo? This netbook hackintosh is made “complete” with a genuine Apple sticker pasted on the cover!

I’m quite surprised that to find Mac OS X working, for the most part, on many non-Apple hardware, including this Lenovo IdeaPad S10. I’d think that if Apple was not agreeable to have Mac OS X installed in non-approved hardware, they could have easily tweaked their code to make it impossible to install on anything but their own hardware. As it turns out, this is possible, although a little cumbersome, but possible nevertheless without hacking the Mac OS X code itself.

The funny thing is that the Software Update continues to update Mac OS X on these non-approved hardware.

Furthermore, even though Apple does not have a netbook platform themselves, apparently the latest Mac OS X update is suspected to have optimizations for the Atom CPU platform used by many netbooks, resulting in improved battery life.

I think this could possibly open up a market for resellers to pre-configure a Mac OS X loaded netbook for sale. Or other PC hardware. I believe there would be some users who are interested to have Mac OS X installed on non-Apple hardware for whatever reasons. But they find it too much hassle to do it themselves, so they wouldn’t mind paying someone else to do it for them.

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