The MSI Wind is one of the earliest netbook that got hackintoshed into running Mac OS X. The MSIWind.net discussion forums used to have detailed guides on how to install Mac OS X on the MSI Wind, but MSIWind.net seems to have gone offline. If you’re a MSI Wind owner who wants Snow Leopard on your netbook, all is not lost. You can still find all the info you need for installing Snow Leopard on your MSI Wind at Macwind.x10hosting.com.

To install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the MSI Wind require 5 things:

1. MSI Wind netbook.
2. Mac OS X Snow Leopard Retail Disk.
3. USB Flash drive with at least 8GB.
4. MSI Wind Snow Leopard installer and kext files.
5. A Mac computer to create the USB Installer.

You can buy the first 3 items, download item 4 and borrow item 5.

Macwind.x10hosting.com has detailed instructions for building your USB installer and installing a 100% Vanilla Snow Leopard on your MSI Wind. The download links to all the necessary files are included in the instructions.

Here’s a youtube video of Snow Leopard on the MSI Wind.

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The Lenovo S10 is a good choice for a laptop/netbook if you want to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on it. The S10 Snow Leopard Enabler makes the installing Snow Leopard on the Lenovo S10 so easy. Just  7 steps and you’re done. No messing around with kext files and stuff after the installation.

The 7 Steps to installing Snow Leopard on a Lenovo S10

1. Update your Lenovo S10 firmware to 14CN94WW or later.
2. Format the Lenovo S10 hard drive.
3. Restore Snow Leopard DVD to a USB thumb drive.
4. Install the S10 Snow Leopard Enabler on the USB thumb drive.
5. Install Snow Leopard using the S10 Snow Leopard enabled USB thumb drive.
6. Boot the newly installed Snow Leopard S10 Lenovo hackintosh.
7. Run software update to update to 10.6.1 and above.

Success Stories

Here are a couple of Lenovo S10 owners who setup their hackintosh laptop with Snow Leopard Enabler.

• $300 MacBook Netbook with Snow Leopard OSX 10.6.1 – Following the guide will get your Lenovo S10 up and running with Snow Leopard 10.6.1 in 30 minutes.
• Installing Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on a Lenovo S10e Netbook – An easy installation.

LAN and internal mic is not working on both installation. You can use a headset or external mic with the mic input jack.

Check out our Lenovo S10 Hackintosh page for more links, photos and videos of Mac OS X on the Lenovo S10.

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I’ve been using my hackintosh laptop, a Dell Mini 10v for the past 3 days after installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on it. Here are my first impressions after spending a few hours on it.

1. Performance –  Mac OS X Snow Leopard runs smoothly with just 1GB of RAM for web surfing, email, chat and listening to music. The screenshot above shows what ’s running on the laptop.
2. Battery life – my initial estimates is a fully charged battery can last about 6 hours with wifi and bluetooth on.
3. Wifi – the 802.11n adapter just works.
4. Ethernet – works. Won’t be using this much because wifi is so convenient.
5. Bluetooth – paired with my Sony Ericsson P1i and bluetooth stereo headset without any problem.
6. Screen – 1024×600 feels a bit cramped as I’m used to at least 1280×800 on my MacBook. I turned on the option to automatically hide and show the Dock to have more usable screen space.
7. External VGA – dual display works with my 42″ Philips LCD TV at 1368×768.
8. Keyboard – will take some getting used to as it’s smaller than my MacBook keyboard. Frequently, I hit the wrong keys when touch-typing.
9. Touchpad – the tiny touchpad makes it really difficult to perform two-finger scrolling. Quite often, it’ll register a two-finger click when I was trying to do the two-finder scroll. Very annoying. For one finger operation and tap to click, the touchpad works fine.
10. Audio – speaker and audio output to earphones work. It can also be paired with my bluetooth headset.
11. Mic – works.
12. Sleep and wake – works by closing and opening the laptop screen. Sleep can also be triggered with a short press on the power on/off button. Audio takes longer (about 15 seconds) to be automatically turned back on after waking from sleep. Wifi and bluetooth wakes up faster.
13. Webcam – tried out Photo Booth with it. Works except Photo Booth’s window is too tall to be displayed entirely on the 1024×600 screen.
14. SD Card Reader - works.

As you can see, all the hardware components in the Dell Mini 10v works with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I am very satisfied with my Dell Mini 10v as my hackintosh laptop. I highly recommend the Mini 10v to anyone looking for a netbook sized hackintosh laptop.

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