Adventures in OSX86 - MSI Wind Followup

28. August 2008 19:26

A couple weeks ago I got an MSI Wind Barebones, shoved 2gb of ram, a dvdrw, and an 80gb sata drive I had laying around. I ran it with Linux + XBMC for a while, and today tried setting it up as a Hackintosh, just to see if it would work. Well, with the Kalyway 10.5.2 install everything worked, except the video resolution on it. After updating to 10.5.3, All I needed to do was use the AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext from 10.5.1and all is working. Playing video with quicktime doesn't work so great at anything above standard (640/720x480) resolution, and even then can lag a bit. VLC works better, and seems capable of up to 720p (barely). OSX seems to not run video as well as Linux did, but the setup is pretty nice. Will likely give XP then Vista a try before going back to Linux on this machine. I got it as something to play around with, and see how well it does.

It is without a doubt, usable as a general use machine (no higher end gaming, or > 720p video though)... For office tasks, browsing the net, and music, it works great. Flash video seems to push it a bit much as well... on Hulu, I was only able to play their "standard" res video, hirez (480p) was too much for the little thing to handle. Within a year, I would expect to see a dual-core atom, with a slightly higher cpu clock speed that should be a contender, as long as it gets a graphics chipset that helps with decoding tasks.

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Comments

9/14/2008 7:35:24 PM #

Hey, how where you able to get the kext from the 10.5.1 dvd? Thanks.

Anthony |

9/16/2008 4:00:14 PM #

Hey -- I was thinking about getting an Atom-based machine to replace my home file server (to save space and, more importantly, power). So all my machine needs, really, is a network port, some USB 2.0 ports (for the external HDDs), and LOW POWER. Internal HDD, optical drive, and memory card ports are all icing on the cake for me. Do you see the Wind as something that will serve that purpose well? A few questions -- does it require a fan for cooling? Does it go into low power mode when idle for a while, and if so, does it wake on LAN?

Thx!

David Henkemeyer |

4/30/2009 4:15:55 PM #