Google Cr-48 Notebook Hacked to Run Mac OS X Snow Leopard [Video]

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Posted January 2, 2011 at 12:12pm by Shalom Levytam

The Google Cr-48 notebook meant to demonstrate the capabilities of Chrome OS has been hacked to run Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows.

You can find instructions on how to install Ubuntu and Windows 7 on Something Awful. A guide for Mac OS X should be posted soon.

Check out the video below...

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horst - January 3, 2011 at 4:00am

Why bothering to get something which is even not half a MAC and needs modifications ? MAC works out of the box perfect. I even wouldnt consider to buy the machine above.

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Mole_Eater - January 3, 2011 at 5:52am

Well there is some good non-apple systems that can run OSX very well but they are mainly desktop systems. It all comes down to graphics and power management (CPU fan / system fan and shutdown / sleep) in my opinion. Many notebooks will work with OSX without both of the above and they are just not worth playing wih.

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Mole_Eater - January 2, 2011 at 1:14pm

Well if I remember right the GMA1350 will not work with QE/CI so nothing he can do there. So this system is dead in the water for OSX with no graphics hardware acceleration . Should be the first thing you check before every thing else... Right??

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teraflow - January 2, 2011 at 2:23pm

You're right, using a hackintosh without QE/CI is pretty annoying Meklort(http://www.meklort.com/) is working on some GMA 3150 kext. Hopefully we'll get QE/CI working soon Till then I'll keep using Ubuntu :P

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teraflow - January 2, 2011 at 4:34pm

Not a big deal, you'll need a usb stick: Download Ubuntu iso Download unetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) Select your stick, and locate your iso image. Once done, restart your netbook and hit ESC key until you see a boot device list, select your stick and install it. You'll need some "hacking" to get two finger scrolling on touchpad If you need some help just let me know ;)

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