Apple Inc. has made it pretty clear in it’s last two conference calls with investors that it has no plans on entering the “nascent” netbook business. In fact, Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer stated in April:
…when I look at what is being sold in the netbook space today, I see cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens, and just not a consumer experience, and not something that we would put the Mac brand on quite frankly. And so, it’s not a space as it exists today that we are interested in, nor do we believe that customers in the long term would be interested in.
However, there are those aspiring Netbook Dads out there who have decided that given all of the limitations of the platform, they would give it a shot anyway.
And they have succeeded…. mostly. In the end, it all comes down to the components inside of you Netbook and if Apple OS X will support all said hardware. The short answer is: if you want to get a complete NetHackintosh experience, then you need to own an MSI Wind U100, Lenovo S10, Dell Mini 9, or HP Mini 1000. For all the long answers, check out the resource guide below.
Resources
Boing Boing has an excellent summation of all netbooks and their compatibility with Mac OS X.
Gizmodo has an excellent how-to article for configuring your Dell Mini 9.
OSx86 Project Wiki has all the hardware compatibility information you need.
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NetHackintosh: Is my Netbook Mac OS X compatible?
Apple Inc. has made it pretty clear in it’s last two conference calls with investors that it has no plans on entering the “nascent” netbook business. In fact, Tim Cook, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer stated in April:
However, there are those aspiring Netbook Dads out there who have decided that given all of the limitations of the platform, they would give it a shot anyway.
And they have succeeded…. mostly. In the end, it all comes down to the components inside of you Netbook and if Apple OS X will support all said hardware. The short answer is: if you want to get a complete NetHackintosh experience, then you need to own an MSI Wind U100, Lenovo S10, Dell Mini 9, or HP Mini 1000. For all the long answers, check out the resource guide below.
Resources
Boing Boing has an excellent summation of all netbooks and their compatibility with Mac OS X.
Gizmodo has an excellent how-to article for configuring your Dell Mini 9.
OSx86 Project Wiki has all the hardware compatibility information you need.
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