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31 Jul 2009Filed under: Peripherals , Switchers , Mac 101 More Mac 101 , tips and tricks for new Mac users. While this tip may be old news to tech-savvy folk, I think it might help a lot of recent Mac switchers who want to leverage their existing investment in their Windows-compatible peripherals. I have a friend who has been on Windows forever. He finally had his fill, and after some incessant nagging on my part, he made the switch .
Filed under: Hardware , OS , Hacks Boing Boing’s gadget blog has updated the list of potential hackintosh netbooks . You can ponder the whole thing or cut to the chase: “…get a HP Mini 1000 or a Dell Mini 9/Vostro A90 .” While the Mini 9 has been discontinued, the Vostro A90 is apparently a rebadged version of the highly hackable Dell and it works just as well as the original. The Eee 1000H also scored highly. There are 21 machines on the chart, each scored across 10 items like working Wi-Fi, Ethernet, sound board and so on.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.