Mac OS X 10.3 Installed On Nokia N900 Because It’s Possible

January 31st, 2010 • • 16 comments

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.

  • http://www.maemocommunity.com/ Maemo Fan

    It is good but what is the use of it, one and a half hour for loading Mac OS X ?!

  • PhilHibbs

    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

    dump… it's an emulator, that's useless…

  • kopkaaz

    Geweaun omdat het kan, daarom !

  • Anon

    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

    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

    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! :D

  • Vainijoki

    Symbian is open source. Would somebody be so mad that installed that to n900?

  • http://twitter.com/Abdullah_Osman Abdullah Osman

    Another n900 astonishment…

  • Nikhil

    how to download MAC os in nokia n900

  • Nikhil

    how to download MAC os in nokia n900

  • http://itprojectcoordinator.com IT Project Coordinator

    Great article, just found your blog going to read many more articles of you

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    Sweet! I had no idea this was even possible. I’ll definite be trying this on my n900 tonight.

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    That’s nice!

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    Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  • http://twitter.com/VicVanceIND ►Su*$hant ◄↑↓

    heyo! first of all thanks for this post.
    the app is lovely,fast and cool,really easy to use but graphics can be enhanced to make it superior.

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