14 DAY TRIAL // There's a saying that goes something like this: everything that is forbidden is more interesting, or more gratifying. Nonetheless, the point is that people tend to do things that are generally forbidden or off limits. That also seems to be the case with those that take pleasure in installing Apple's Mac OS on various PCs. If a couple of days ago, we presented to you a case of a Mac OS being installed on an Acer Aspire One, this time around an MSI Wind is in the spotlight.
It is precisely this that is setting a new trend among computer enthusiasts, one in which users want their favorite netbook to be OS-enabled. Maybe this is a trend that should send a message to Apple to make its operating system more PC-friendly and to let users legally install OS or OS X on their own PC. Whatever may be the case, until that happens, we are left with all these demos of various users installing OS on PCs, most of which generally are notebooks.
Paul O'Brien from the MoDaCo forum has picked up an Advent 4211 netbook and has turned it into his own 10-inch MacBook. The Advent 4211 is the brand name of the MSI Wind that is being sold in the UK, so it is safe to say that MSI's Wind is the second netbook to have been put through a Mac OS installation process.
The installation process was quite lengthy, but Paul finally managed to replace the standard Windows operating system with Apple's OS X Leopard. He documented the entire process so, if you're thinking on trying it yourself, you have something to start from. Just remember that you will need an external DVD drive and a bunch of software, including Wind's own driver and utility pack. Also, the current version of MSI's Wind uses a Realtek RTL8187SE WiFi card, which isn't supported by the OS X drivers, so that might be a problem.
Ultimately, what you do with your own notebooks is entirely up to you, as long as you make sure it doesn't cross any legal boundaries.