Mac OS X 10.3 Installed On Nokia N900 Because It’s Possible
January 31st, 2010 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •
Finnish geek Toni Nikkanen shared on video that it’s possible to put Mac OS X 10.3 on the Nokia N900, although uselessly slow. It took 2 hours to boot up! I don’t know about you, but I’m not patient enough to use an old OS not built for a mobile device. Nevertheless, the project was just for fun to claim the title of making the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of OS X.
One reaction I found amusing came from the Maemo forums. bxbbomber says:
Android, Win NT 4.0, Win 3.11, Win 95, Win 98, Debian, Mer and now OSX! And watch it not be able to run maemo 6. That’ll just piss me of.
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Maemo Fan on 1 February 2010:
It is good but what is the use of it, one and a half hour for loading Mac OS X ?!
PhilHibbs on 1 February 2010:
Read the article title… “because it's possible”. Why climb a mountain? Why run a marathon? Why build a GNU/Linux PC into a ZX Spectrum case?
ergonomiste on 1 February 2010:
dump… it's an emulator, that's useless…
kopkaaz on 1 February 2010:
Geweaun omdat het kan, daarom !
Anon on 1 February 2010:
interesting that a 'normal' desktop with menus and icons looks quite usable on the small screen (apart from the speed in this particular instance)
Claudio on 1 February 2010:
Meh. I was more interested when Danamania installed OS X via PearPC on a 68K Mac running Debian Linux, and that took forever to boot compared to this.
BAReFOOt on 1 February 2010:
That’s an EPIC WIN!
The speed is not the point. The point is, that it’s possible.
It’s a all-around freakin’ great phone. That’s the point!
@Apple: BOO! Go gome! LOL!
Vainijoki on 1 February 2010:
Symbian is open source. Would somebody be so mad that installed that to n900?
Abdullah Osman on 3 February 2010:
Another n900 astonishment…
Nikhil on 4 February 2010:
how to download MAC os in nokia n900
Nikhil on 4 February 2010:
how to download MAC os in nokia n900
IT Project Coordinator on 19 June 2010:
Great article, just found your blog going to read many more articles of you