There are of course ways around this and I took the plunge with a Kalyway 10.5.2 iso. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 3692 WLMI which originally came with an 80GB hard drive which I have already upgraded to a 160GB drive. Since I was only going to be testing this out I wasn’t about to erase my current linux install. I dusted off the the old 80GB drive and swapped it out with the 160GB drive and kicked off the install. I actually did the install a couple of times to get used to how Mac people do stuff.

Some things just worked, my little Trust BT2400p bluetooth dongle, WiFi, Audio, Graphics all just worked. I was floored. Of course there were a few things that didn’t work but they don’t work under linux either, namely the Orbicam and the internal card reader – neither of which I really give a stuff about.

Actually this install boots slower than the original Kalyway 10.5.1 install I had a few hours earlier. Sorry about the dumb auto focus on the camera – or is it a Steve Jobs distortion field?

Obviously the multimedia buttons don’t work and rather annoyingly the scrolling button (between the left and right mouse buttons) doesn’t work either. Sleep mode seems to need a bit of work. Well, it’s not the sleeping, it’s the waking up – it just doesn’t. One other thing I did notice was how quick my laptop boots with OSX, it beats my SuSe 10.2 install into a cocked hat.

While most things worked fine I do still have one concern – compatability. Compatability not with Windows, but with linux. Everything I do now is done using linux and I need to be able to continue doing those things if I were to switch to a Mac. So far things are looking good. Right now I’m just off to create my own .mac service…