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OS X on a Tablet PC?

Posted in Stupid, Tech by Dan at 8:15 am
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I call BS here.

So, Apple has released their dev kits for OS X on Intel hardware and I was lucky enough to be the recepient of one. I took a disk image off of this badboy and loaded it onto my tablet. It booted but unfortunately the tablet’s screen didn’t work. I tried booting with an external monitor and… it actually worked. Having configured linux in the past to recognize the wacom digitizer I set to work on getting it up in OS X. This proved none too difficult as the tablet essentially just has a serial port to which the digitizer is connected. The standard wacom drivers for OSX worked fine once I configured it for this port.

Still the screen of the tablet itself didn’t work. After much reading on OS X’s monitor configuration I set about building a config file for the tablet screen. It turned out to be easy enough, I just had to bypass the plug-n-play and hardcode the settings.

The poster did not specify what type of Tablet PC, and will not supply pictures. COME ON!

I SAY FAKE!

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