Although Mr Jobs and his Apple chums have decided on your behalf that really don’t want a nice, convenient, small netbook running your favourite OS, there appears to be no shortage of folks who really would rather like such a creation.
With no official channels open to anyone wanting the twin joys of Mac OSX and a wee netbook, the team at myMacNetbook have compiled a handy set of guides for filling up those wee cheap PCs with Apple magic.
Compatibility charted
To get you started, they’ve put together a Mac OS X netbook compatibility chart, showing what features will work with individual netbooks.
The netbooks are listed against tick boxes for showing compatibility with important features such as Bluetoot, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, USB, audio, power management etc.
Once Mac OSX has been installed, a surprisingly high amount of netbooks can run with all the features present and correct – a proposition which may prove tempting to Apple fans unimpressed with the basic specs and multi-tasking fail of the iPad.
Not a simple job
It has to be said that installing Mac OSX on to a netbook is not a job for the feint hearted, although many have reported success.
A few guides for individual Dell and HP netbooks can be found here, and there’s a forum (hosted by InsanelyMac) to help you iron out any issues.
We’d love to have get our Asus Eee 901 purring along on the Mac OSX but – to be honest – we’re sure we’d screw up the installation.
Have any of you tried installing OSX on your netbook? Tell us more!
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I’m waiting for my refurbed Dell Mini 10v to be delivered (the Dell Outlet has some good deals), and I have everything ready to back up the Windows 7 Starter that comes installed and replace it with Snow Leopard.
Not expecting it to be a great experience compared to my 4 year old Macbook, but it’ll be smaller and less of a risk while I’m out.
I recently purchased a refurbed Lenovo S10 ($180) and installed OS-X on the machine. It runs great… and the experience is so much better than Windows, at least for a netbook. I was a PC only person but for a netbook I recommend OSX. Also applications run good, faster than XP. I can watch videos (720p), etc. Only complaint is a few dialog boxes run off the screen and you cannot move windows as easily. I have a 80% scaling app that fixes this.