Comments on: Mac ultraportable laptop, $399 with effort and a good lawyer

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:11:58 +0000

Hey Kevin,
Any chance in giving us a tutorial on how to get vlc (and maybe other linux programs) into the eee? I've got one, but its so frustrating to be limited only to the programs that are available in the device, and those provided by Asus.

Help!

By: Guthrie

Guthrie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:31:38 +0000

Wow, I'm buying one now. Fantastic.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:34:12 +0000

>>>Asus! Tablet version, PLEASE

But... Apple doesn't provide drivers for touchscreen with their OS (yet?). (Hmmm... has someone ripped out the MultiTouch drivers from iPhone's OS X?)

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:58:03 +0000

I've played with OS X on PC's before; it's pretty easy to install in a virtual machine in VMware Server for instance. Doesn't run all that snappy there either since it's a VM and no specialized drivers to speed things up exist for it, but it's still pretty cool to be able to give it a whirl.

Hacking it onto an Eee has to be a fair bit more challenging though, very cool.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:33:16 +0000

I ultimately went down to 10.4. Leopard isn't soooo stable yet... Need to play with the KTEXTS some more.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:26:48 +0000

Asus! Tablet version, PLEASE. Hell, I may swap out my C110 when the 8GB/10" version comes out anyway but I really, really want a tablet version.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:15:21 +0000

HOLY BLEEPING BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP!!!

That has GOT to be Hack of the Year!!