Once I got OS X booting on my Dell desktop, I thought I’d give it a try on the laptop, a Dell Latitude D600.  I read that OS X would indeed install on the D600, since it does have SSE2 - it’s a Pentium M - using one of the OS X images floating around.  I won’t detail the whole process as others have done that.  The main down side it that the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 is not supported - or at least not supported well, so I don’t have any hardware acceleration, but I did get it running at native resolution of 1400 x 1050.  It works pretty well - speed it comparable to XP and Ubuntu which I also have installed on the laptop.  Wireless networking worked out of the box as did sound.  The wired network connection required a kext (kernel extension) patch to get working.  All in all, not to difficult.  Why do this you ask?  1) I like OS X, 2) I can’t afford a new Mac right now and 3) It’s a cool, geeky thing to do.

No, software update doesn’t work for the system patches, but I can live without that for now.