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OQO Running OS X Leopard: The Smallest Mac in the World?

Forget the Psystar business—this Hackintosh is much more interesting. A member of the OQOTalk forum has demonstrated his OQO running a hacked version of Leopard. It takes over two minutes to load but it looks like it's all there, including such goodies as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, power management and sound. Check out the video to see a (blurry) demo of it in action from the dual-boot startup, including showing coverflow working in Finder and a Dashboard launch.

Currently the video resolution is pinned at 800 x 480 and there're difficulties with wwan, but work is continuing to overcome this.

Is this the smallest Mac in the world? Very probably, and pretty amusing given that OQO was founded by some ex-Apple employees. [OQOTalk]

4:04 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Kit Eaton
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oat at 04:31 AM on 04/29/08
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sexy.
Valicious at 04:42 AM on 04/29/08
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@oat: Soft, chocolate lips...
howdytex at 04:53 AM on 04/29/08
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Cracks me up. They figured out how to put OS X on the OQO but they can't fsck'in figure out how to focus a camcorder... But that is pretty cool though.
CODIFEROUS at 05:18 AM on 04/29/08
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that man has three hands!!
desostros at 05:24 AM on 04/29/08
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More blur plx kthxbai
quikboy at 05:41 AM on 04/29/08
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"Smallest Mac in the World?"

No, but it's the small hacked PC to run OS X.

Personally, I love Vista on OQO.
cloudnine at 05:50 AM on 04/29/08
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damn... running OSX really got the fan goin' in coverflow... I'd hate to see it running iTunes or *gasp* Safari! O_o
alpayerturkmen at 06:31 AM on 04/29/08
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Does that thing have a fan? ridiculous...
djdare at 07:29 AM on 04/29/08
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@alpayerturkmen: I was thinking the same thing, flips to coverflow... one folder appears, fan 3000 rpm next folder... 4000 rpm next folder... 5000 rpm
yoshi at 07:33 AM on 04/29/08
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@quikboy:

You nailed it. It's the smallest hacked PC in the world to run OS X.

Yippeeeeeeee!!! :)
yogibimbi at 07:44 AM on 04/29/08
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so, that means I can officially dump macosonoqo.com? Well, it's been down for a while, but the suckers from the hosting company still keep trying to charge me and wont react to my attempts to cancel it.
Kaiser-Machead at 07:54 AM on 04/29/08
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@howdytex: From the looks of it, that camcorder simply can't focus in so close to the subject. At first I thought it was a digital camera being used to record video, which has that same limitation.
Joseph at 08:41 AM on 04/29/08
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he sounds like a pilot the way he says "and we will remain on the gray screen for some time." Oh BTW, is that background noise from the fan of the OQO?
phi at 08:59 AM on 04/29/08
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I don't think there's true power management, otherwise, the fan wouldn't be blowing constantly. nice hack but I'm running the same hack on a vaio and power management is basically the ability to tell me how much battery life there is left.
Lester56 at 09:06 AM on 04/29/08
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OMFG!!!
chillywilly at 09:17 AM on 04/29/08
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camcorder (or digital camera using video mode) needed to be put in macro mode to better focus up close.

Other than that, I say kudos to whoever made the hack. That's pretty cool.

Does the OQO screen work in direct sunlight well?

It's pretty obvious we all want a sub-notebook Mac. C'mon Apple.... make it official someday.
DanyBrancho at 09:24 AM on 04/29/08
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@cloudnine: or some video encoding... even on my 2.2ghz macbook pro that takes several minutes
xylr869 at 10:28 AM on 04/29/08
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@phi

My OQO 02 sounds just like that running XP - AVG starts downloading updates and you think the thing will take off...just loading Pandora in Firefox or watching a video on YouTube will get you the same amount of fan spin. I would take fan noise on OS X over no fan noise on XP any day!
imTheKing at 11:05 AM on 04/29/08
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now this kicks total ass. Psystar is a joke.
BradenHippomedon at 11:38 AM on 04/29/08
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Comment on OQO Running OS X Leopard: The Smallest Mac in the World? i have to disagree, the smallest mac in the world is in fact the iphone!
Kaiser-Machead at 11:51 AM on 04/29/08
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While the startup time is pretty damn long, it doesn't seem to be so bad once it's up and running. With Wifi and other things being operable, this sounds like a kickass little mod.

@imTheKing: Indeed.
Gizmometer at 12:04 PM on 04/29/08
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Gizmodo missed the most important thing about this hackintosh success: The OQO 02 is the first machine running Leopard with a Via C7M, which means it should be possible to install Leopard on the HP Mini-Note.
hanspecans at 12:11 PM on 04/29/08
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who the hell is blow drying their hair in the background the whole time?
Hvedhrungr at 12:31 PM on 04/29/08
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@Gizmometer: That was actually my first thought upon reading this and checking up on the hardware. Kudos for noticing! I wonder if the Apple developers are just going to sit back and watch the community do all the work from now on. UMPC MacBook?
limited.ed at 12:38 PM on 04/29/08
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I would say the iPod Touch is the smallest Mac in the world. Not quitee as powerful as an OQO, but quite useful.
TonySmash at 01:35 PM on 04/29/08
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i may have just creamed my pants a little. the OQO is a beautiful little piece of equipment, and now with the pure sexy that is leopard, it can't lose. well, if it can actually stay running long enough without overheating. nonetheless, bravo.
Delmarc at 01:46 PM on 04/29/08
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NOW I CAN HAVE OSX on my OQO!!! LOVE IT!!! but wait... osx cant do ASP.NET... ehhh... I'll overcome that
Delmarc at 01:48 PM on 04/29/08
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but my fan doesnt fly like that much and i have alot of development stuff along with Lightwave too... very rarely is the fan on for that long... even on startup...
Delmarc at 01:50 PM on 04/29/08
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Its also funny how the OQO can be hacked and works better then a hacked Asus EE pc...
Galavoxx at 03:19 PM on 04/29/08
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Video quality is crap but that is pretty awesome.
Xidius at 04:03 PM on 04/29/08
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Could have simply been a video recorded and edited on a computer, and then played full screen on the device as to trick the public for publicity. ;)
TonyTriple at 05:51 PM on 04/29/08
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take this as a hint, Apple. You know what we want and we will do anything to get it. Surendur ur OSz to teh internets.