keith
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Post by keith on Jan 23, 2009 12:57:57 GMT
I give you, the Netbook. It's a Dell Mini 9 which I bought from eBay for £200, added a 32Gb SSD and upgraded the RAM to 2Gb then installed OS X onto. It complements my Mac Pro very nicely and it was an incredibly easy thing to do. Now all I need to is decide what I actually want to use it for!
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 23, 2009 13:32:26 GMT
And why exactly do you think Apple should have made such a computer?
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keith
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Post by keith on Jan 23, 2009 13:35:13 GMT
Are you kidding? Who wouldn't absolutely love an Apple netbook, they're just so tiny and cute and manbag sized. Fantastic!
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Post by HeatherKay on Jan 23, 2009 13:43:20 GMT
And Apple's version would be twice the price you paid. Obviously.
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keith
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Post by keith on Jan 23, 2009 13:48:51 GMT
And the rest...
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Post by barryj21 on Jan 23, 2009 14:11:44 GMT
And why exactly do you think Apple should have made such a computer? I'd love one for travelling - my 17in MBP is like brick after a while!
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Post by CyberChimp on Jan 23, 2009 14:35:21 GMT
Well, they've done it several times before: There was the Mac Duo And the eMate. My personal gut feeling though is that the most likely 'official' Mac OS X netbook will be a third party re-work of an Apple product (similar to the Modbook), but based around a Mac Mini motherboard rather than an actual notebook model...... Get working in your shed and see if it's possible!
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Post by Alan on Jan 23, 2009 14:35:44 GMT
Are you kidding? Who wouldn't absolutely love an Apple netbook, they're just so tiny and cute and manbag sized. Fantastic! It already exists, and it's called the Mactini www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8k2fzCVY4:-) Alan. But seriously Keith, what recipe did you follow to get OSX running on that machine? Any links?
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 23, 2009 15:50:08 GMT
Are you kidding? Who wouldn't absolutely love an Apple netbook, they're just so tiny and cute and manbag sized. Fantastic! They may be small, but if they are underpowered who is going to be happy with one? How well does it run the iLife applications for example? < (Devil's advo-cat)
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Post by wierdostomps on Jan 23, 2009 16:49:44 GMT
If you want to run iLife or Photoshop or Final Cut Pro, this would not be the machine for you. Who wants to edit photos on a 7" screen. But with respect to Mr Cat, that isn't the point. My colleague has an eeePC which she absolutely loves - although she hates Windows and would much rather have a Mac. The Netbook is just what it says on the tin, a machine for surfing the internet, writing the odd email and maybe taking notes in a meeting. Personally, I hate the EeePC. The keys are too small for my fingers and I'm forever scrolling around the to see the part of the display I need. It's not the machine for me, but there is certainly a market out there for a stylishly produced one which doesn't crash or get viruses!
Tim
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keith
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Post by keith on Jan 23, 2009 22:02:21 GMT
But seriously Keith, what recipe did you follow to get OSX running on that machine? Any links? It was incredibly amazingly easy, much easier than my previous hackintosh build which got me into all this Mac lark. The SSD I bought has a micro USB connector on it so I unplugged all the internal drives on my Mac Pro and connected the SSD via USB. I booted from my OS X DVD, installed it to the SSD and then ran the combo updater to get to 10.5.6 After that I plugged the SSD back into the Dell, booted from a USB stick and ran a script file that's been specifically written for the purpose. Once that was done, closed it all down, unplugged the USB stick and booted from the SSD. Job done, it was as simple as that and took about an hour and a half in total. After that I just ran software update and did all the updates I was offered. The beauty is that if a major software update appears all I need to do is do the update and then run the script again. Easy. There's a set of forums dedicated to this particular netbook, the appropriate bits for OS X can be found here. They may be small, but if they are underpowered who is going to be happy with one? How well does it run the iLife applications for example? Very well. It's not underpowered at all. I've not tried running iLife yet because in all fairness, it's not the sort of thing one is likely to want to use a small netbook for but for basic surfing, mail reading and general sitting in front of the telly with a computer it's great. My requirements for a laptop are not for something with a huge 17" or even a 15" screen because I don't consider them to be truly portable. This thing will literally fit in my bag and can go anywhere with me. It's great, it just works
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Post by gavin on Jan 26, 2009 11:17:17 GMT
How well does it run iLife? Having not done it I could not say, but let's pause for one second before writing off the Atom. My old PowerBook G4 1.3GHz runs iLife very nicely indeed. Without any research or investigation (based on the relentless march of technology) I am confident in saying that the Atom will blow away that old G4. With 2Gb of RAM it must be more than fine.
As mentioned though, who wants to do iLife stuff on such a tiny screen?
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Post by Forum Cat on Jan 26, 2009 11:35:32 GMT
As mentioned though, who wants to do iLife stuff on such a tiny screen? Was it Tim Cook that was explaining why Apple don't make a netbook? One of the main reasons given was that running OS X would be an unsatisfactory experience on a netbook. So if YOU are asking "who wants to do iLife on tiny screen?" then everyone else will say the same. In other words netbooks are not suitable for OS X. Sure you can do a limited sub-set of computer applications on them but that is not who Apple are. They try not to make machines that don't work well. If you want a computer they give you only the choice of full keyboard and full screen because anything else is compromised. If you want to browse on your phone they will write a new version of the OS. If Apple do make a netbook sized product you can bet you mouse that it will not be running standard OS X
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Post by gavin on Jan 26, 2009 15:44:19 GMT
If Apple do make a netbook sized product you can bet you mouse that it will not be running standard OS X You may well be right. That's not to say however that there is no market for a device somewhere between an iPhone and fully featured laptop. Light, attractive and easy to use is what you want and I can't think of a better company than Apple to produce such a system. I think it's more a question of whether they think there's any money to be made by doing so....
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Post by benjamin on Jan 26, 2009 17:01:09 GMT
I think Linux is best for a netbook.
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