Mac OS X now fully functional the MSI Wind netbook

Apple may not be interested in selling a Mac netbook, but that's not to say that netbook owners aren't interested in using Mac OS X. Thanks to a concerted effort by hackers, however, it is now possible to make your own Hackintosh netbook – all you need is a suitable netbook and a hacked version of the Mac OS X operating system.

So, after our Windows 7 netbook test, we were curious to see how far the hackers are along the Hackintosh path and decided to try and to install OS X on our own MSI Wind U100 – one of the better supported netbooks, by all accounts.

OS X compatibility is a hot topic in most netbook user forums and there's lots of (often conflicting) advice on how to install the operating system successfully and get everything working. None seemed particularly straightforward and most involved delving into the terminal at some point. So, confident that we wouldn't really learn anything from trying to follow second-hand instruction, grabbed a torrent of MSIWindosx86.iso (a hacked version of Mac OS X designed specifically for the MSI Wind) and dived in.