OK, I tried the XP that came with my EeePC 1000HE, and it SUCKED.  I haven’t used XP in ages!  I didn’t even attempt Vista, being the resource hog that it is, so I went straight to Windows 7.  That actually was pretty decent, and it would be my recommendation for non hacker/computer geek types.  But something was missing… a certain coolness that I felt a device like a netbook should possess.  So I tried Ubuntu… eh, it was OK.  I tried Ubuntu Netbook-Remix and it was certainly cooler, a big step in the right direction, and my 2nd recommendation for normal users.  But still… not what I was looking for.  Then I found out that people have been pretty successful getting Mac OSX running on their PC, and even netbooks.  I immediately went to work researching, testing, experimenting… both on my netbook and desktops.  I have a fairly good grasp on it all now, so tonight I got Mac OS X 10.6.2 on it, which is referred to as “Snow Leopard”… the lastest edition of the Mac OS.  I now call this my EeeMac!

It is awesome!  I’m not alone though, and certainly not the first.  Search YouTube for “EeePC Snow Leopard” and you’ll find more than one video demonstrating it.  Mine is flawless so far, and I can do updates from Apple’s “Software Update” too.  For any computer geek, this is my absolute highest recommendation for netbook OS.  In fact, I’m about to redo my i7 based PC as a Hackintosh.  Need Windows for something?  No problem, run VirtualBox – run Windows 7 (or any other OS) as a virtual machine.  Problem solved!

What I like most probably is the free tools real Macs come with – namely the apps that are part of the packaged called iLife.  I’ll be doing a little demo of those things once I get my Hackintosh going.

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