There isn’t yet a netbook from Apple at the moment and as you will be able to recall on the post in which we wrote about netbooks which were capable of running Mac OS X, only the Dell Mini 9 and MSI Wind achieved full scores. That’s why there is now a proper guide released from Gizmodo showing you how you could install and run Mac OS X on your Dell Mini 9 and hackintosh it into a proper Mac netbook (or mini MacBook?). So before you get started, you will need to make sure you have the following.
Dell Mini 9 With 16GB SSD or higher (8GB SSDs will techincally work, but it will take some fiddling not covered by this guide)
Retail copy of OS X 10.5.x (NOT an OEM copy that comes with a new Mac)
A USB flash drive 8GB or higher
An external USB DVD drive
The “Type11″ Bootloader: DellMiniBoot123v8.01.iso.zip (download link in this forum post)
Blank CD to burn bootloader image (I actually used version 8.0 of Type11 on my CD-if your boot process with 8.01 is different than what’s spelled out in this guide, you can download 8.0 here. Both should work.)
Windows PC for preparing the flash drive (if DVD drive works fine, this is optional)
As you can see this guide does require you to already have purchased a few things, it’s advisable to have the 16GB SSD version rather than the 8GB SSD Mini 9 which we featured recently in our review. You will also need to have a retail copy of Mac OS X and not the one you got given when you purchased a Mac.
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