Mar 30 2009
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Netbook for photos
I’ve been hearing more-and-more people talk about turning their Dell Mini 9s into Hackintoshes. We’re planning a two-week trip back East, and it occurred to me that for not too much cash, I could put together a hackintoshed Dell Mini 9 to sort and store photos along with a refurbished Airport Express for wireless surfing, email, etc.
Now that I’ve blown a couple of hours researching this, I’d better get my notes down here so I can close out the tabs and get to what I was intending to do today…
- Buy the cheapest refurbished Mini 9 the Dell Outlet has.
- Upgrade the memory to 2 GB, and the SSD to something bigger (32-64 gig).
- Buy two USB keys for the install process. (TBD: How large do they need to be?)
- Install Mac OS 10.5.
- Buy a refurbished Airport Express.
- Profit!
Any more Mini 9 tidbits I come along will be cataloged in my delicious links.
