Cool Hack: Running Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC

Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10″ or smaller displays and weights that manufacture a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison.

MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien decided to get his OS of choice, Mac OS X 10.5.4, up and running on one of these little wonders. The machine is a variant of a recently released UMPC called the MSI Wind, which weighs in at 2.3 lbs and sports the new Intel Atom N270

CPU running at 1.6 GHz.

While Paul admits to a few small issues, he was not only able to load and run Leopard on the Wind, but he plus documented the entire procedure in text and video (see above) whether you want to compose your own Ultra-Mobile Mac. After watching how easy the process is and finding out how inexpensive the Wind is, I’m tempted to try that myself! Be certain to let us know whether you’re successful at following Paul’s footsteps.

Direct link to the video and step-by-step directions.

[Source] Steven Sande