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Install Snow Leopard on your netbook with Netbook Installer 0.8.2

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:47:51 +0000

Meklort and a team of testers have brought a new application suite that allow one to easily install OSX Leopard or Snow Leopard on a netbook.

The application suite is called Netbook Installer 0.8.2. Here is how it goes in 6 easy steps:

Restore OSX DVD (10.5.x or 10.6) to USB drive
Run NetbookBootMaker (this version) to patch the USB
Make sure Legacy USB is enabled in BIOS (for booting from USB)
Boot Netbook to patched Install USB
Install OSX 10.5.x, OSX 10.6 or upgrade from 10.5.x to 10.6
Once the installation has completed remove your USB drive and reboot
Enjoy OSX on your Mini!

Netbook Installer currently support Dell mini9, mini10v and the Lenovo S10. Other netbook are alsoknown to work with Netbook Installer.

This release is offering the community to add support for other netbook on their own as long as you know how to edit and copy a few files. More details on this can be found here.

Have fun installing OSX on your netbooks!

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 with OS X

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:46:52 +0000

Wondering whether OS X runs on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2? The quick version is yes, yes it does. The longer version, is that it takes a bit of work to get it up and running and the camera and audio may not work properly out of the box. There are also problems with the sleep function.

Netbook Philippines member Shinrai also reports that updating to OS X 10.5.5 or a more recent build causes his computer to crash, so he’s sticking with OS X 10.5.4 for now.

You can see a few videos of the netbook in action after the break.

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 with OS X – Video.

Admin comment: I think this Lenovo user could use our new NetbookInstaller that should support this Netbook for easy OSX Installation.

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:38:36 +0000

Clad in that familiar black shell, the 14.1-inch laptop (screen resolution: 1440 x 900 pixels) has a case that’s only about 4/5 of an inch thick and just under 4 pounds, a whole pound lighter than the T400. Performance is simply outstanding: While graphics are a tad weak due to the lack of a video card, the high-end CPU (the newest Core 2 Duo SP9600, running at 2.53 GHz), 2 GB of RAM and 128-GB solid-state drive give the T400s plenty of juice to power through general apps, running rings around nearly all other notebooks we’ve benchmarked this year. ThinkPad geeks will most enjoy the little tweaks that Lenovo has given the T400s: The Esc and Delete keys are now double-sized for easier access, and though the speakers still suck, at least the unit features better volume controls, including a dedicated microphone On/Off button. A 2-megapixel webcam with dual microphones rests atop the LCD, and then there’s the textured, multitouch touchpad — now flush with the palm rest — that is possibly the most comfortable touchpad we’ve ever used.

Even without the SSD, the T400s starts at $1,600.

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