Hackintosh – It’s OK, Not Great
June 24th, 2009
Here I am typing away in Blogo on my Asus Eee Hackintosh and not liking it (I’ve changed to the Windows 7 laptop, and am now on Live Writer because I have access to Picasa and my Polaroid plug-in). This is a decent thought experiment, but there are problems, as others have pointed out. The typing is actually good, and some other aspects really stand out well, like the portability and the overall performance.
But for a Mac user, this just isn’t the same. It has no access to the built in Wi-Fi, so I have an external solution that hooks into the USB port. When I do that, there is a big "thing" sticking out of the side of the netbook.
I hate the trackpad on it, and I can’t deactivate or suspend it, it just works. I can’t even control the tracking speed. It is directly under my thumbs and since the Trackpad system preference doesn’t work, every time I accidentally touch the trackpad, I make the cursor jump to a new place on the page, totally disrupting my work. The trackpad behavior is so bad I have resorted to using the old Macally USB keyboard. This netbook is supposed to free me up, not weigh me down with a bunch of peripherals.
Some windows resize themselves to the 600 px screen, except Blogo, which flows out beyond the top and bottom. What the hackers have managed to achieve is brilliant, however, I am committed now to getting rid of all the PCs and getting a real, new, Macbook Pro 13". Small enough to tote, big enough to do what I want to do; use Windows Live Writer in VM Ware Fusion and OS X for everything else. Can someone hook a brother up?
