Windows Express

After reading a ZDNet blog posting today, I’m afraid to say that I have been inspired.  Apparently Dell Mini 9 owners have managed to install Mac OS X from a legitimate DVD with the only extra step being a simple bootloading program installation.  The best thing is that all of the Dell’s hardware is supported, and it runs very quickly, practically making it an Apple netbook.

Being an Information Systems major I need experience working with several different platforms/operating systems.  I have been thinking about triple-booting for quite some time and have now come to the conclusion that I MUST undertake this project and post my progress on this blog.

I am currently running Windows 7 build 7077 as my main operating system, and in addition to that I will be adding Ubuntu 8.10 (a Linux distribution or distro for all the Linux newbies)  and some version of Mac OS X.  If you check out the OSx86 Project you will see that some very kind experts are helping to make OS X accessible to PC users, although there may be some hardware problems (which I expect).

So stay tuned!  I should be starting this project later in the week and will post back with screenshots, how-tos, and problems that I run into on this epic journey.

Disclaimer: Installing Mac OS X on any computer that is not “Apple-labeled” is against Apple’s End User Licence Agreement.  I do not plan on using Mac OS X as an operating system, I am just curious to see if it is possible on my machine