Psystar, the crazy folks that have stood up to Apple’s legal behemoth and continue to produce Mac clones, might be working on a netbook according to MacRumors. Apple has been very quite on the netbook front, and seems to not want anything to do with the niche market — although rumors state otherwise. But there is nothing stopping Psystar from producing its own OS X-running netbook. Chances are it would be very similar to the hackintosh netbook mods that have become somewhat popular.
If Psystar actually does produce a miniature OS X notebook, it could be somewhat of a hit as long as the price was right. Getting OS X up and running on a netbook isn’t that hard, but there are probably a good amount of people that would rather not spend the time trying to install the operating system. This would take all the guesswork out of it. Any takers?
I believe you mean Apple has been “quiet.”
I would rather they produce a MacBook Pro equivalent laptop rather than a netbook. My Dell 1525 runs OS X solid as a rock but I would prefer to buy something that had a lot more beef to it. If they can make a sexy design and squeeze in some heavy duty hardware (DDR3 Ram, a larger HD than the MB Pros and a comparable processor) I would be sold in a heartbeat.
They are literally holding all of the cards with this Apple lawsuit I think. I also think that they have some heavy duty funding behind them and that they are going to give Apple a run for it’s money.
At this point, kind of like piracy, Apple isn’t going to win this war against homebrewed Hackintoshs.