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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  • Nikhil
    how to download MAC os in nokia n900
  • Another n900 astonishment...
  • Vainijoki
    Symbian is open source. Would somebody be so mad that installed that to n900?
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • kopkaaz
    Geweaun omdat het kan, daarom !
  • ergonomiste
    dump... it's an emulator, that's useless...
  • 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?
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