14 DAY TRIAL // It has become somewhat of a trend for netbooks running Apple's Mac OS to surface on the Internet. We have already seen how two of the most popular such products on the market, the Aspire One and MSI's Wind, were successful in loading and booting into OS X. Now, the time has come for yet another netbook to show us it can also run Apple's Mac operating system. This time around, it’s Dell's recently released Inspiron Mini that has inspired a user to try installing Leopard on it, an operation that, as you'll see, turned out to be a success.
Before moving to the installation of Leopard, Dan from UneasySilence (where you can also read in full detail how he got his Mini Inspiron to run Mac OS) received several useful tips, which eventually made the entire process much easier, while helping him take advantage of Apple's operating system on his brand new, small-sized Inspiron. As it turns out, installing Leopard on Dell's netbook isn't all that difficult, although it does require an external DVD optical drive.
After installing the operating system, all but two of the netbook's components worked, namely the on-board wireless and sound, which were also enabled and rendered fully functional after a quick search on the Internet. In addition, according to Dan’s most recent post, he was able to update the Mac OS to version 10.5.5, which basically allowed him to benefit from a fully working Mini Inspiron running on Apple's latest version of Leopard.
Obviously, as we've said in previous other articles, installing and running OS X on any other computer system than Apple's own Macs isn't what you may call legal. However, that does not seem to stop users from trying out Leopard on their own non-Mac computer systems. Moreover, now that we’ve seen it’s possible, we may as well expect to see Lenovo, Samsung or LG's netbooks running Apple's OS X as well.