Today, the Nokia Booklet 3G on loan to me from @WhatleyDude and 1000 Heads just increased it’s usefulness ten fold. Maybe more in fact, as so unaccustomed have I become with Microsoft’s OS, any device running a version Windows turns me into a temporary luddite. I’m not a coder and come from a photography background. I’m afraid ‘I am a Mac’ through and through.
When James handed me Nokia’s Netbook I could not help but want to look over it. It’s certainly as sexy as a piece of Apple hardware but with Windows inside I felt like I had in my hands on a beautiful yet sick bit of tech. It was as if Windows itself was a virus and this foxy bit of kit needed to be cured.
At the Northampton Geek Meet the ‘proper’ geeks were all over it. They new the language of Gates and were mightily impressed. I felt even more that I needed to feel at home with this device. To make it my own as such.
Enter @Computid. I call him a kid genius. If he wasn’t using his powers for good he’d have had the front door of his Mum’s house kicked in by the ‘Men in Black’ a long time ago.
If they could find him.
This is a Kid who is rebuilding a multi million dollar Cray super computer.. because he can.
Adam told me if the Nokia Netbook 3g was hackintosh-able, he could do it. A few days later I called him and he had.
It’s now in my hands looking like Steve Jobs himself had got into bed with Nokia to create a funky little mobile computer that behaved like a netbook should. There are still a couple of creases in the code Adam is planning to iron out but I’d go out and buy the Nokia booklet tomorrow knowing that this was possible. Follow @Computid on twitter and he will link to a full set of instructions enabling you to create your own Nokia Hacklet.
I’ll also tweet the link to full instructions at @Documentally
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I can’t wait for the day ‘anyman’ can push a button an have any OS on their own property! This looks superb – wonder if eeepc>
Sounds and looks great. Does the 3G and wifi still work on it though? Cant remember if you had to have a contract for the 3G connection or not either, how does it affect that?..
Both the Wifi and the 3G work a treat! One glitch with the wifi, you have to run “sudo killall mDNSResponder” at startup which im incorporating into some apple script to run at boot.
Mint! Good work! Would be really interested to hear how it gets on over a prolonged period of time after some heavy usage. What hackintosh guide did you use to do it?
I didnt, I wrote the guide for this 😀 My method will be revealed shortly..
Killing mDNSResponder will also stop Bonjour from working. That would be a deal breaker for me. MSi Wind u100 forever 😉
The Killing mDNSResponder command is a temporary fix.. @Computid has the Hacklet for stage 2.
Amazing work. How fast is it? Would love to see it in action 🙂
Hi @Whatleydude. It seemed fast enough to me. I brought it to tuttle & when Adam has a further play i’ll bring it again.