Dell Mini 9, MSI Wind, or Acer Aspire One?

What about an Asus Eee PC? Small, lightweight, not that bad looking it might be ok. ANd you can get it in either 10", 9" or 7" options

Good luck!
 
DarthTreydor said:
Excellent choice! I have a wind running os x and other than having to use a USB dongle for audio in/out (the regular ports don't work under os x), I couldn't be happier. I would recommend ordering one of the new 9 cell batteries as the 3 cell won't get more than a couple hours under normal use.
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I will probably do that...

I spend a few hours trying to get the wireless to work (in Windows) and I couldn't. I even tried switching network cards. Looks like I may have to do an exchange. Hopefully their exchange is as fluid as Apple's.

Santa Rosa said:
Would have gone for the Dell 9 or the Acer Aspire One myself but hope you enjoy the MSI Wind.
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I would have gone for the Dell had it been in stock and cheap!

madmaxmedia said:
Working sleep in OS X is great, as is the 1 disk installation process (if you get ahold of the disk.)
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Oh it's already restored onto a flash drive ready to install when the Broadcom card arrives.
 
I am excited the Jobs said in an interview that he was going to closely watch this field of netbooks/sub-notebooks. The field has exploded, most notably when the product came down in price. A 9-10" ldc, 2.5 pound Mac laptop, if put out, will kill the competition. And Jobs wants to make the price somewhat comparable so I am thinking $399 or so as opposed to the average $299 street price Linux and XP netbook PCs' street price. I would gladly pay an extra hundred, mostly due to OS X.

With a couple of USB ports, ethernet, audio in/out, smartcard port, display port and no optical drive, this could be perfect for internet/e-mail/word processing/light graphics/light gaming computer with a three hour battery time using an Intel Atom single core processor and a gig of RAM. It would be great if it was also compatible with the many external superdrives out there on the market.
 
63dot said:
I am excited the Jobs said in an interview that he was going to closely watch this field of netbooks/sub-notebooks. The field has exploded, most notably when the product came down in price. A 9-10" ldc, 2.5 pound Mac laptop, if put out, will kill the competition. And Jobs wants to make the price somewhat comparable so I am thinking $399 or so as opposed to the average $299 street price Linux and XP netbook PCs' street price. I would gladly pay an extra hundred, mostly due to OS X.

With a couple of USB ports, ethernet, audio in/out, smartcard port, display port and no optical drive, this could be perfect for internet/e-mail/word processing/light graphics/light gaming computer with a three hour battery time using an Intel Atom single core processor and a gig of RAM. It would be great if it was also compatible with the many external superdrives out there on the market.
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Just wait. If Apple did somehow come out with a netbook (which I doubt) the price would be closer to $799 rather than $399. There is no way that Jobs would put out any kind of a laptop at that price.
 
MSI Wind U120 (10" version, not 9"), AA1, then Dell Mini 9.


The MSI Wind and AA1 are both great, while the Dell ain't. Sorry, but the MSI Wind and AA1 are far more comfy to type on, and this is coming from someone with very average-sized hands.
 
danny_w said:
Just wait. If Apple did somehow come out with a netbook (which I doubt) the price would be closer to $799 rather than $399. There is no way that Jobs would put out any kind of a laptop at that price.
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Looking at the 8 years I have been here lurking and posting, there are many predictions of things we thought Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, and company could not do...flat panel G4 iMac, lower priced iPod with more storage than iPod rev. a, latest OS X by a certain date, mac mini at such a great price, iPod shuffle at a price that kicked other cheap MP3s off the map by undercutting their prices, etc. I think Apple can do it though it won't be a full on Macbook, no optical drive, but a sub-notebook with limited graphics capability. If the market is there, Apple may do it. Let's see what happens between next month's Macworld and Macworld 2010.
 
So I didn't need a replacement…

Anways I installed OS X and it's working great. Trackpad sucks badly. Too bad I don't have the Synaptics version :(

However I did find drivers from Realtek for the build in WiFi. I ordered the Broadcom already, which is too bad, but the good thing is the Broadcom can use the Airport Utility while the Realtek needs its own.
 
63dot said:
Looking at the 8 years I have been here lurking and posting, there are many predictions of things we thought Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, and company could not do...flat panel G4 iMac, lower priced iPod with more storage than iPod rev. a, latest OS X by a certain date, mac mini at such a great price, iPod shuffle at a price that kicked other cheap MP3s off the map by undercutting their prices, etc. I think Apple can do it though it won't be a full on Macbook, no optical drive, but a sub-notebook with limited graphics capability. If the market is there, Apple may do it. Let's see what happens between next month's Macworld and Macworld 2010.
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I never said that they couldn't do it, just that they won't do it (IMHO). Of course like you said we have all been surprised before, so nothing is certain.
 
danny_w said:
I never said that they couldn't do it, just that they won't do it (IMHO). Of course like you said we have all been surprised before, so nothing is certain.
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I would jump on $599 also since the windbook is around that configured upscale. :)

The Apple MacWind, or the MacOne :)
 
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