X41 Tablet with OS X 10.5.5, $500

[joebyday]

Thinkpad X41 Tablet in very good condition. Hackintosh with OS X 10.5.5. Lots of goodies!

This tablet came with Windows XP Tablet Edition installed, and comes with a valid XP license and the original restore CDs, and you are welcome to reinstall that. However, I have installed Mac OS X Leopard on it. Tablet functionality works, "Ink" (handwriting recognition) works, I've done a lot of tweaking to get it into the best operating shape possible.


Hardware Specs:

- 1.5 GB RAM

- 1.5 Ghz Pentium M processor

- 40GB hard drive

- XGA Display with Wacom pen-enabled tablet

- swivel-convertible lid (standard laptop or tablet "modes")

- Comes with two batteries: original and extended life (one is smaller than the other)

- Two power bricks/cables; also, a splitter so you can charge both batteries at the same time

- A docking station which includes a slot for an external optical drive (no drive included; you can boot from a USB-connected drive or get one that fits the dock)

- Two cases -- one large case that holds everything, and one form-fitting case (more like a sleeve) just for the computer itself


Software specs/OS X oddities:

- OS X 10.5.5

- What works: just about everything except what is noted below

- What doesn't work: sleep.

- What sort of works: the built-in wifi card. There's a special driver you can download, but it is a little flaky.

- What works instead: I bought a USB wifi dongle that I will include with the computer; it is rock-solid.

- You can't just use software update to update the OS on this; it uses a special slipstreamed version of OS X, but it can be updated.

$500. Please include your phone number when you email, and good times to reach you. Local (i.e., in person) transactions are preferred. It's a great machine and I've done the hard work for you (or you can just re-install Windows, if that's your fancy!)

[zukster]

How did you get OSX setup? Did you use native OSX media or modified JaS
or something? How did you get the tablet (pen) to work? Thanks if you can
answer.

[TTA]

not to thread cap but you can't sell a machine with a hacked OS here.
Please answer any questions anyone has BUT that machine has to be erased or sold here with a proper IBM (or at least MS) load.