Installing Mac OSX

[Thunderous]

Hello,

I recently heard about and downloaded Psystar's "Rebel EFI," which claims to allow easy installation of Mac OSX on any computer. (Look it up, it's free.) I have an official, legal Snow Leopard installation DVD at work, which I will bring home tomorrow and attempt this on my HP TC1100.

As far as I'm concerned, the software was legally purchased and acquired so there is nothing unethical about this attempt.

I have a spare hard drive I'll be using for the installation. If it installs and runs, I will probably need help getting the wireless and tablet drivers to work, as well as audio, etc... I'm sure almost all of you guys have much more technical experience than I do.
I'm not sure about how my computer will be able to handle it, with a 1000MHz processor and only 1 GB of RAM... Might be slow, but it'd still be awesome if it worked.

I've been rooting around online for a couple of hours, and I haven't been able to find anyone who has successfully pulled off anything like this... I don't know if it will be successful, but I sure am excited to try it out!

The one website I found where someone had posted their attempts at this, mentioned that Mac OSX is the best operating system in the world, and the HP TC1100 is the best tablet design ever produced. I agree wholeheartedly.

EDIT:
Just a thought—I still have my XP Tablet Edition installation DVD, could I install it in Boot Camp and get the drivers to run that way? Although that would rather defeat the purpose of installing Mac in the first place...

[Gideon007]

There was a similar question here before, I think. Anyway the verdict is that you'd rather should install W7 as its pen/writing recognition is far superior to XP's and also the Mac's. I like my iMac with Snow Leopard but I'm not sure whether I'd want to run it on my TC1100 :)
Let us know how it goes.


Just a thought—I still have my XP Tablet Edition installation DVD, could I install it in Boot Camp and get the drivers to run that way? Although that would rather defeat the purpose of installing Mac in the first place...
I don't think Bootcamp will properly run, I haven't tested this on my iMac, yet (and with VMWare Fusion, I don't really have a need for it anyway). I'm not sure how strong bootcamp integrates the Apple hardware drivers. Anyway even if that works like a normal XP Tablet installation, that wouldn't help you with your missing drivers for OS X.

[Thunderous]

Yeah, I think I'll try Windows 7 if this falls through... Would it be worth it to install with only 1GB of RAM? I could upgrade that as well, but I'm not sure how comfortable I am with prying open my computer.

If it'd be much slower than XP, I might just stick with that... but boy, am I tired of it...

Expect results of my OSX installation attempt posted by tonight

[Gideon007]

1GB is good enough for me here with W7. I don't have noticeable slow downs compared to XP.
More Ram would be better though :)

Reading further, I would be very amazed if this would work on the ages old Intel machine of the TC1100...
See http://wiki.psystar.com/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility_List

[Thunderous]

You're right, I didn't even get to the installation screen. It wouldn't recognize the DVD at all... Lol. I guess it's probably impossible, without some very extensive hacking...

Off to try Windows 7!