The Inexpensive MacBook Air Alternative |
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| by Oscar Sodani | |
| January 15, 2009 | |
 Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. Want a MacBook Air but can't justify the (outrageous) cost? The Internet community comes to the rescue once again! It turns out that you can easily install Mac OS X Leopard on inexpensive netbooks from MSI or Dell. BoingBoing has a table listing all the netbooks and their compatibility with OS X - the MSI Wind and the Dell Mini-9 will work perfectly. Amazon has the MSI Wind for around $400 as of this writing. This is already at the top of my list of tech projects! Some more helpful links: MSI Wind Website |
for around $400 as of this writing. This is already at the top of my list of tech projects! 