My guilty little secret is that my ugly Asus Eee PC 1000HE netbook is my favorite Mac laptop.
It’s certainly not the prettiest (a Frankenstein) or the most powerful (a sloth) but it’s the one with the twenty hours of battery life spread between two interchangeable batteries always swinging from a satchel (read: man purse) on my hip.
What was once a lackluster Windows XP lilicomputer is now, thanks to the OSx86 project and this wonderful guide, the one Mac I’m always guaranteed to have on me.
These days, a lot of netbooks are capable of running OS X, and unlike the early days of netbook Hackintoshing, they can do so pretty much out of the box. Unfortunately, it can still be hard to figure out exactly what OS X features your netbook supports, and then find the appropriate guides.
Enter InsanelyMac’s latest site, MyMacNetbook, which promises to be a constantly updated resource for people who would Hackintosh their netbooks. It’s a little bare bones at the moment, but it does feature an excellent compatibility chart linking to each netbook’s appropriate OS X guide. In fact, the guide they link for the Asus Eee PC 1000HE is the same one I followed to install Snow Leopard on my little darling.
There’s no doubt that wiggling beyond the confines of OS X’s EULA is an individual ethical call, but netbook owners who do have great rewards to look forward to. or anyone who has ever considered installing Snow Leopard on that tiny Atom-powered laptop collecting dust in the corner, MyMacNetbook is shaping up to be an excellent resource.
