Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X 251
Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"
He's only half done (Score:0, Funny)
Next step is to hook it up to a car battery and use liquid helium to cool the chip. Overclocked I'm sure he can get the boot up under an hour.
Not impressed (Score:0, Funny)
Two hours to boot Mac OS X? My Nokia N900 boots the Atari 800 OS in 2 seconds.
So where is BeOS? (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, if your going to do worthless things why not go for the whole enchilada?
O_o (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Phones more powerful than NeXTstations! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not useless (Score:3, Funny)
So where is z/OS . . . ? (Score:5, Funny)
. . . now get *that* running on your Nokia N900 . . . I see your enchilada and raise you a chimichanga . . .
It doesn't run OSX. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mac 2010 is now Vista (Score:2, Funny)
People used to say, "Windows 95 is Mac 84." The roles have now reversed.
So now "Windows 95 is Mac 84." says people?
That's deep man.
Re:Phones more powerful than NeXTstations! (Score:3, Funny)
And not all that much has changed between NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X. Anyone who used NeXTSTEP back in the day knows how remarkably little has changed since Apple took it over.
O.o
If a complete lift-and-replace of the GUI/display subsystem, massive kernel updates, major userspace updates, major API revisions, multiple new APIs, a new GUI and a port to a new hardware platform means "little has changed", exactly what needs to be done to say "a lot has changed" ?