Saturday, April 10, 2010

Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh

I knew the Dell Mini 9 made a great Hackintosh, but I've only just now gotten to try it out. It was a very interesting project. It is a fairly intensive process to get the OS installed on non-Apple hardware, but once it's running it is smooth as glass.

There's a stunning Hackintosh community out there. While its definitely not an open source community in terms of the amount of information being at your fingertips, the Hackintosh community is very supportive of noobs. Thus, it is a fun and constructive endeavor.

My netbook runs slightly slower than it did with Ubuntu, but I'm very impressed with  how a graphical operating system like Mac runs on this little thing. The one caveat I have is trying to figure out keyboard shortcuts for various programs with the Mini 9's horrible windows keyboard.

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