I wonder how many of the Hackintosh people have tried Linux. I would say it is much simpler to setup a nice Linux distro and make it look like a Mac... That is if you are into that sort of thing.<p>All you would need is Gnome, an OS X theme and AWN. It is free and legal.<p>I ran a Macbook pro for a few years in college and I cant bring myself to switch back from Linux. The only thing that might put me on Mac is developing an iPhone/Touch app. I feel Linux is on par or somewhere not too far behind. Am I wrong here?
My MacBook Air went belly up two days ago. For that kind of money, I'd expect better than 14 months of life and I've treated it like a museum piece. Our little $200 lenovo netbook is durable, we caught my son jumping on it on the bed yesterday. We scolded him but he did no damage to the laptop. My 6 year old ThinkPad churns away and has been used and abused.<p>I am seriously considering putting together a hackintosh before shelling out more to get my Air fixed.
So I'd like to hear what people would actually DO with a mac tablet....<p>Are you going to use it like an oversized iPod? Type large documents with the touchscreen? Watch movies? Read books?<p>I took Spindler's comments during the presentation as a thinly veiled message of "look, the iPod touch/iPhone can do most of what you want here, so don't hold your breath for a tablet".<p>Then again, that's usually a sign there's one around the corner...
Why did this get any votes? The information boils down to "you can install OS X on a netbook with some effort", which surely is very old news?<p>Is it enough to sport the word "Hack" in the title to get on Hacker News?
> <i>Apple didn't make it. I did. The machine I'm using is known as a "Hackintosh" -- actually a 9-inch Dell netbook that I've hacked to run Apple's Macintosh operating system.</i><p>> <i>In the end, I had a crude version of the Mac tablet computer that the rumor mill always says is just around the corner.</i><p>When did Dell come out with a 9" TabletPC?<p>> <i>Turning a netbook into a Mac certainly isn't a task for technical naïfs [...]</i><p>Oh... <i>that</i> 'Tablet' PC.