Why ? because you don't need to wait for Snow Leopard to get ZFS on a Mac, you can have it since a while with OpenSolaris, without the bugs of Time Machine, with Boot Environement Administration's amazing features, with embedded virtualization in the OS. You can find with google may ways of installing OSOL on a MacBook pro, there only one problem, the NIC drivers and WIFI drivers are missing.
Today I could get nge drivers from the NVidia MCP79 chipset included in every new macBook Pro unibody. If you are trying to install OSOL2009.06 from the ISO image, please do the following to have GigaBit running (and benefit from the new packages availabe): in /etc/driver_aliases add nge "pci10de,ab0" If your system is 64 bit build (isainfo -b) cp nge_mcp79_64 /kernel/drv/amd64/nge If your system is 32 bit build cp nge_mcp79_32 /kernel/drv/amd64/nge Then poweroff and power on your machine The two drivers nge_mcp79_64 and nge_mcp79_32 are on the wiki http://wikis.sun.com/display/chosug right side of the web page, click on "tools" then click on "attachments" then choose your driver. Those drivers will soon be integrated in Solaris 10 too. On a MacBook Pro with 4GB, grub (launched by rEFIt) will show you 2.5 GB, then the four Giga will be available once OpenSolaris up. NVidia acceleration with Compiz is excellent :) Wifi (BROADCOM) is not yet available, so use a USB wifi or an Apple AirportExpress. I tested Cheese webcam (from pkg.opensolaris.org IPS), and the integrated iSight camera is working :) Sound is not working perfectly yet. You can get many plugins from the extra repository, including the latest VirtualBox and JavaFX SDK :) There is a new OpenSourced Media Center "Elisa" which remind me a little bit FrontRow on MacOS X. Well, a last we have one on OpenSolaris. Cheers Karim
