webOS Up And Running On A Dell Laptop

While you’ve always been able to get webOS running on a PC via a virtual machine, someone has decided to take it one step further, and got a Dell C600 laptop to boot directly into webOS, instead of having it run on a virtual machine. Now, we know that HP has purchased Palm, but let’s not go into the question of “why didn’t the user pick a HP computer to boot webOS”, funny as it may seem. The trick to get this to work was apparently to get the webOS image from the emulator and cram it into an IDE hard drive, which probably sounds a lot easier than it really is. Of course, bearing in mind that the current webOS emulator was meant for devices with a small display, you’re staring at a very small picture of webOS on your laptop, but it does make us wonder what the upcoming webOS-powered HP Hurricane will be like. Check out a video demonstration of this after the jump!