Insanely Mac Launches MyMacNetbook.com, a Resource for Hackintoshing Netbooks

John Brownlee (3:59 am PDT, Mar 25 2010)

Insanely Mac Launches MyMacNetbook.com, a Resource for Hackintoshing Netbooks

My guilty little secret is that my ugly Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is my favorite Mac laptop.

It’s certainly not the prettiest (a Frankenstein) or the most powerful (a sloth) but it’s the one with the twenty hours of battery life spread between two interchangeable batteries always swinging from a satchel (read: man purse) on my hip.

What was once a lackluster Windows XP lilicomputer is now, thanks to the OSx86 project and this wonderful guide, the one Mac I’m always guaranteed to have on me.

These days, a lot of netbooks are capable of running OS X, and unlike the early days of netbook Hackintoshing, they can do so pretty much out of the box. Unfortunately, it can still be hard to figure out exactly what OS X features your netbook supports, and then find the appropriate guides.

Enter InsanelyMac’s latest site, MyMacNetbook, which promises to be a constantly updated resource for people who would Hackintosh their netbooks. It’s a little bare bones at the moment, but it does feature an excellent compatibility chart linking to each netbook’s appropriate OS X guide. In fact, the guide they link for the Asus Eee PC 1000HE is the same one I followed to install Snow Leopard on my little darling.

There’s no doubt that wiggling beyond the confines of OS X’s EULA is an individual ethical call, but netbook owners who do have great rewards to look forward to. or anyone who has ever considered installing Snow Leopard on that tiny Atom-powered laptop collecting dust in the corner, MyMacNetbook is shaping up to be an excellent resource.

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5 comments »

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Ben

    wasnt hackintoshing disabled a short time ago? I remember reading a lot of posts about Atom processor support being disabled so that this couldnt be done?

  • http://www.myMacNetbook.com Ed Gain

    @John thanks for the kind words about myMacNetbook!

    @Ben yeah, Apple did drop support for Atom in 10.6.2 but it didn’t take long for the OSx86 community to figure it out, just check through our forums on InsanelyMac! I’ve got 10.6.2 running perfectly on my HP Compaq Mini 700.

  • http://ihbs.co.uk Ben

    @Ed Gain

    ah ok thanks! never really looked at hackintoshing before, but looking at the prices of these netbooks it seems like it might be the perfect compliment to go with my mac mini!

  • http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney

    @john

    i got the EeePC 1000H for the kids and wasted hours on it trying to get it to work. the wifi card refused to cooperate. and after i did get it to work , the kids refused to use it — too slow. little ingratiates.

    i can’t believe you really like it. i find it hard enough to work on a full-size macbook.

  • John Brownlee

    Leander, it’s definitely not a work machine. I mean, I can do work on it, and do, but it’s mainly meant for half an hour here or there at the bar or in the park, not for five or six hour working sessions.

    As for your kids, I wonder what they were doing with it that it proved unsatisfactory for their needs. Had you maxed the RAM? Netbooks ship with the bear minimum, and OS X really just can’t get by very well on a 1GB stick.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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