Handtops, UMPC - OSX on OQO 02

05/03/07 + weatheryoko

tnkgrl,
I wanted to start a new thread in order to ask if you've even had a chance to look into this. If memory serves me correctly, you wanted to see if you could make your 02 a dual boot Windows/OSX system. Have you had a chance to look into this? Or are you going to wait until your HSPDA (spelling?) card come in? Thanks in advance.

Justin

edited: May 03 2007 + tnkgrl

*Justin*, yeah it's on my to-do list along with a million other things

First on the agenda: HSDPA.

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05/03/07 + weatheryoko

Understood and thanks (and I also don't mean to be "pushy"). BTW, I'm still using your "Norton 2003 Boot Disk for the OQO". It's been very helpful in the past. Thanks again.

edited: May 03 2007 + educationk12

I imagine the OQO will run quite a bit better on OSX than Vista...but I guess my concern would be the drivers, especially EVDO...not concerns about HSDPA cuz I know tnkgrl won't sleep until she has her HSDPA w/ OSX. ;o)

I've never converted a PC to OSX...has anybody tried that Parallel software where you can have both software programs running at the same time...that way you can single boot with dual OS programs running...or would this push the OQO beyond its limit?

05/04/07 + tnkgrl

*educationk12*, for the EVDO/HSDPA Mini PCI Express card to work in OSX (or Linux), all you need is the driver for the XPressCard with the matching chipset from the same manufacturer (you may have to edit the VID/PID in the .pref file, but that's pretty easy)... Then you just need a generic 3G modem script and you're all set!

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05/04/07 + SomeGuy23

I have a 1.5GHz Core Solo Mac Mini with 512MB and the 40GB (or was it 60GB) 5400rpm HD and to be honest, even this system doesn't cope well with OS X.

The OQO has an infinitely slower processor, slower hard disk and inferior video (which I doubt you'll get OS X drivers for). It'll be an interesting experiment but unless the extra 512MB miraculously increases performance and responsiveness by 1000%, OS X on the OQO will be completely unusable.

edited: May 04 2007 + tnkgrl

*SomeGuy23* I used to run OS X on my Averatec AV1050 10.4" sub-notebook (1.1 GHz Pentium M ULV, 1GB RAM) and it worked just fine...

OS X wants a lot of RAM - 512 MB is not enough! Add some RAM to your Mac Mini and notice the difference.

Recent Blog: Bluetooth hack for the Asus 701 (Eee)

05/04/07 + nivenh

OSX doesn't work on the 02. i've already tried. the via cpu is missing the fpu fast save/restore instruction. osx will stop immediately and tell you that the cpu you're using doesn't support that instruction and it can't continue.

edited: May 04 2007 + Chekote

I highly doubt you could run OSX natively on the OQO2, not because the VIA chip doesn't have the horsepower (OSX doesn't even require that much, it's a very efficient OS), but because I would suspect the VIA chip doesn't support the minimum SSE requirements.

You could likely get it running in VMWare player, but then you have the significant overhead of XP gobbling up all your resources in the background.

Parallels would be a great option to run both *if* it were possible to run OSX natively.

If anyone does get it to run OSX natively, that's definitely going to be the thing that pushes me over the edge and makes me buy one.

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05/04/07 + wogaut

Chekote said: "I highly doubt you could run OSX natively on the OQO2, not because the VIA chip doesn't have the horsepower (OSX doesn't even require that much, it's a very efficient OS), but because I would suspect the VIA chip doesn't support the minimum SSE requirements."

Running Crystal CPUID, OQO02 supports SSE3, so it meets the minium requirement there.

*nivenh*, are you using a TPM patched version of OSX?

Wolfgang

05/04/07 + nivenh

yes, i am. the same CD installed on another 1.7ghz pentium M notebook without any trouble.

05/04/07 + tnkgrl

Last night I tried booting my OQO off my TPM patched OS X DVD and it kernel panicked right away... I think we need to investigate if anyone has succeeded in running TPM patched OS X on a Via C7m system!

I also tried booting my OQO off my Ubuntu CD and it worked fine out of the box other than WiFi and the active digitizer - EVDO was properly recognized

Recent Blog: Bluetooth hack for the Asus 701 (Eee)

05/04/07 + nivenh

its a unsupported cpu instruction trying to be used. i imagine its used quite a bit in the upstream wares which is why its testing for it so early. i'd say there's no hope atm, though i would be VERY happy to be proven wrong.

05/04/07 + tnkgrl

Some answers - link

Recent Blog: Bluetooth hack for the Asus 701 (Eee)

05/04/07 + fishd

You could likely get it running in VMWare player, but then you have the significant overhead of XP gobbling up all your resources in the background.

Sorry for thread-jacking but, as a new user it won't let me start a new topic, and it is slightly releated...

Has anyone installed a VMware product (Player, Server or Workstation) on the OQO2 and got a VM running?

I only ask as I've just ordered an OQO2 Best (TabletXP) to replace my Vega and one of the reasons is the Vega won't run any VM I have (neither will the Koshinja based on the same CPU).