Get a Slick Mac NetBook For Less Than $600 (Not Strictly Legal, Of Course)

September 6 2008, 7:52pm

Writer Scott Gilbertson has a very cool Mac netbook that cost him only $550. It’s got a slick black case, weighs nothing, gets hours of battery life and runs Leopard, the latest version of Mac OS X. It’s not a MacBook Air. It’s a hacked EeePC — a tiny liliputer , as they’re now called, fresh from Asus, a Tawainese manufacturer best known for PC motherboards. Gilbertson’s netbook is the device Mac fans have wanted for years: A low-cost cousin to the beautiful but pricey MacBook Air. It runs like a champ but has a couple of quirks (one big one) and may not be strictly legal, though Apple’s never going to prosecute unless these machines are sold commercially. Hit the jump for details.

(more…)

`put your comments code in here