MSI Wind or Asus Eee PC?

[birel44]

Hi all!

I am thinking about making a hackintosh netbook and I was wondering if there have been better results with the Msi Wind or the Asus Eee PC? I do not have an installer method I prefer as this would be my first hackintosh. I do not have a WWAN plan so the lack of compatability for that on the Eee would not affect me. I have narrowed it down to these two netbooks as they both have the ability to upgrade the internal drive to a higher capacity SSD. Both are also capable of supporting up to 2GB in RAM, which will probably be neccessary.

So what are your thoughts on both? If you own one, please also explain the install method (if you can) just so I know if the installation difficulty would be easier on one or the other.

Thanks!

[updatelee]

I have two msi wind u100's and they are excellent, the webcam isnt supported fully or at all depending on what rev of webcam you have in the netbook. everything else works awesome.

[spalek83]

from what i've seen, the wifi on eee pc is not supported in snow. someone might of found a workaround by now. if you find one that is, then go for it. they are pretty sweet. i just have win7 on mine with truecrypt, don't really care for osx on it. but it's super nice. don't know about the wind, never used one

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.6.0/Portables

[justinxtreme]

I would recommend the MSI Wind.

I have the MSI Wind and they're really awesome devices. I have used a Asus Eee PC, both the 1000H and 901 models and they are really small and great but the MSI looks a lot sexier and sleeker and somewhat feels "better" to use compared to the Eee PC plus there's a huge community of people to back you up with the MSI Wind OSX support (I think it's even larger than Eee PC's)

To tell you the truth you have to see it in person. It's a personal choice.

But for me, the keyboard of the MSI Wind really amazed me for such a small machine so I bought MSI Wind U100.

Oh and about the community of people thing, I think I'm right... it has a larger OSx86 community support than Eee PC's... Heck they even created a special very own MSI Wind version of the Mac OSX Installer (It's floating around in the internet it's called Msiwindosx86.iso).

To install Mac OSX on a MSI Wind is EXTREMELY EASY. But say you want to keep your Windows installation, that's a different story (it's kinda easy but not extremely easy).

MSI Wind if you plan on hackintoshing it.... in my opinion
Get either the U100 or U120... Haven't tried the U120 and I think the U100 is more "OSX compatible". Only thing not working is microphone (built-in and jack but I think they're working on it voodooHDA is working on it)

[birel44]

Awesome, thank you all for your help!

I am probably going to get started looking for a u100 now based on what you all have said. The installer is really what made it for me. The less I have to rely on my limited code knowledge, the better.

So thanks again for all of your help!

[updatelee]

walmart sells them still, thats where I got mine, good price too.