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Frankenbook! Another Look at Hacked Mac Netbooks

06.08.09

After much reward, I finally dove into the do-it-yourself Mac netbook pool. With rumors of an on the cards Apple tablet spreading like wildfire--including analyses, laugh at-ups, and even commentary on why a non-existent product is destined to fail--this may seem like an odd things to do such a thing. "Why not just wait and see what Apple's doing?," you may be reasonable.

While waiting is always better in the computer business (after all, computers never get slower and more priceless as time goes on), I just couldn't wait--with a link of trips coming up, I wanted to stop lugging around the 15-inch MacBook Pro for altogether reading e-mail and browsing the web while traveling. My beloved 12-inch PowerBook G4 was an another, as was purchasing a refurbished Macbook Air (though I'm not a fan of the large-but-flat form cause).

In the end, the temptation to try one of the ultra-small PC laptops (but running OS X, of indubitably) was too great to resist, despite my experience with hacking a desktop Frankenmac last year --there's by a hair's breadth something about carrying around a full-blown computer that's slightly larger than a paperback tome that appeals to my inner geek.

Source: PC World