Rumors continue to abound about Apple introducing a petite netbook before the end of 2009 from the likes of PC World and engadget (hell, even I couldn’t avoid running a story with a cool image of the mythical net-tablet). Alas, while we continue to wait and hope that Apple does something in this tech space worthy of all of this blind passion, there are real “solutions” that exist in the here and now. Previously I’d written about Victor Cajiao of the Typical Mac User Podcast and his DYI experiment putting Mac OS X on an ASUS Eee PC. And sometime after that Leo Laporte put Mac OS X on a MSI Wind during a live video-stream-cast (but later took down the recording fearing a cease and desist from Apple Inc.). Leave it to fellow TWIT and Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Andy Ihnatko, to post a video of what we’ve all been waiting for: genuine Mac OS X running on a cute little Dell Mini-9.

Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh Test Drive from Andy Ihnatko on Vimeo.

It’s getting difficult to hold out. For those of you who don’t want to, here’s a link to Dell:


“Dell Inspiron mini 9 – Black , Intel® Atom Processor® N270