UK Netbook Review

If you’ve been following the Hackintosh saga (drama?) as of late, you’ll know that as it stands today, it’s not possible to Hackintosh your netbook to run the latest version of Apples OSX operating system (10.6.2). You’ll be happy to hear however, that the ‘Meklort’ the man behind the NetbookInstaller software, which tweaks OSX to make netbook hackintoshing possible has stated that an updated version will be available soon.

First it was, then it wasn’t, then it was again, but now it’s official. Support for the tiny but mighty Intel Atom processor has been dropped in the latest release of Apple’s popular OSX operating system.

A few days ago we reported that the latest developer release of Apple’s OSX Snow Leopard operating system broke support for the Intel Atom processor – thereby disabling any future Hackintosh projects. Well, today, the latest news from Stell’s blog is that support is back in the latest build of the developer release. Why, no one knows, but we hope it stays and hasn’t given Apple any nasty ideas. You know, with their anticipated tablet/netbook for this Christmas and all…

or those of you that have ‘Hackintoshed’ your netbook, don’t upgrade to the latest release of Snow Leopard when it comes out. Stellarolla, a well known OSX authority, and a key contributor to the original hackintosh writes on his blog:

Windows 7 may just have been launched, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for a good Hackintosh guide, and this one doesn’t disappoint. Gizmodo has put together a comprehensive guide that details how to install OS X Snow Leopord on the Dell Mini 10v and everything is reported to work – sound – [...]