Thomas Laskowski's Blog

I was very disappointed with the Acer netbooks.  They felt cheap and weren’t very OS X friendly.  I decided to shell out the extra cash and try a Lenovo (former IBM) netbook.  The difference is huge.  You can see and feel the quality all over.  It feels more durable and the keyboard on it is great.  It’s definitely worth paying a premium price for a better product.  Anyways, here is OS X 10.5.8 running on the Ideapad S12.

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I wanted to see how long it takes for each OS to boot and until I can start surfing the web. The test was run on Ubuntu 9.04, Windows XP SP3, and Mac OS X 10.5.6 (iPC). Surprisingly, they all took around a minute until usable on the same hardware. Of course Windows XP doesn’t support the full 8 gigs of RAM that I have whereas Linux and OS X do. Watch the video below to see it in action.