JooJoo Tablet Is No iPad, But At Least It Can Now Run OS X

JooJoo Tablet Is No iPad, But At Least It Can Now Run OS X

The JooJoo Tablet has had a long and troubled history. Originally a project by TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington to build a $200 tablet and called the CrunchPad, the JooJoo came into being when its outsourced Singaporean developers violated their contract and decided to cut Arrington out and sell the tablet themselves… a mere month before Apple unveiled the iPad at a similar price point.

By March 30th, only 90 JooJoo tablets had been sold. But if you happen to have one of those 90 JooJoos, good news: you can now install OS X on it. None too surprising — the JooJoo boasts an Atom processor, which is compatible with Snow Leopard — but why would you even want to? OS X is an even worse tablet operating system than Windows 7, let alone the finger-based custom Linux distro the JooJoo ships with.

But hey, if you’re the kind of person who was willing to drop $500 on the JooJoo when you could have bought an iPad, you’re probably already prone to some truly questionable decision making,

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  • thomas

    Considering that some geeks have wanted an OS X tablet forever, and who are bitter now that Apple has released the iPad and will *never* release a tablet powered by the full Mac OS X, maybe the JooJoo now is the device they’ve dreamed of. I heard it even has USB ports ;-)

  • Fabian

    And someone told me that is even multitask!, so maybe it’s not such a bad decision.

  • Bedi

    Nice closing :)
    I have a JooJoo rotting here in my company. Not really good for anything except surfing the net a little when used outside the U.S.