The busiest shopping day of the year is traditionally the day after Thanksgiving, known in the Retail Trade as Black Friday. And this year, anticipation appears to be building for some of the best Black Friday deals to be had for netbooks, the super-cheap small laptops from many manufacturers that may get even cheaper for a retail minute.
Here’s a custom Google search for Black Friday deals, and you’d be well advised too, to be on the look out at local hardware retailers for returned notebooks pre-installed with Linux.
We’ve seen rumors of deals to be had on a Dell mini-laptop, and powerful arguments for why netbooks may just dominate the holiday shopping season.
When you get your hands on your mini-deal, see the references below for tips on how to get ’em to run OS X:
Install OS X on an Acer Aspire One – courtesy of reader Javier Canadillas; thanks, Javier!
Guide to installing OS X on Lenovo IdeaPad S10
If you come across ways to get OS X on other netbooks, be sure to let us know about it in comments.
Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie’s photos on Flickr.
6 responses to “Score a Black Friday NetBook Deal and Hack it to Run OS X”
Hi Lonnie,
I think you’re missing out this great tutorial I made myself for the Acer Aspire One: http://www.venera7.com/22-11-2…
So far it’s been working like a charm!
Voilá the GigaByte M912 with Touchscreen and Leopard.
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I wrote up a series on how to get Snow Leopard 10.6.3 on an Acer Aspire One. I have model D250. There will be a YouTube video attached to the series shortly. So far it has been working great for me. You may wanna check it out.
http://computersoftwareisyourf…
As long as the users know their hardware and know which kexts to get, the majority of the steps are universal.
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