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\"\"Netbooks seem to be all the rage today. Unfortunately, none of them are made by Apple, meaning none of them ship with OS X.<\/p>\n

By amazing coincidence, though, it turns out there’s one netbook out there that you can apparently install OS X on with relative ease; the Dell Mini 9. I even hear that, once installed, OS X behaves as if it is running on a MacBook Air.<\/p>\n

The main trouble with doing this is that the stock internal drive on the Mini 9 is, at most, 16GB. Even after pruning out things like extra fonts, applications like iMovie and iDVD which don’t work well (or at all) on a Mini 9, and other such items, an install of Leopard takes up about six gigabytes of space, leaving less than 10GB for all your files. That’s not a whole heck of a lot of room.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there’s a simple way of adding more space for your files. Just use our guide for relocating your Home folder<\/a> to move it to a USB drive, be it a nice, large OWC External Storage Solution<\/a> or a simple (though smaller) flash drive.<\/p>\n

Now, your Mini 9 has much more room for your files, music and photos, making your “Mac Netbook” a little more convenient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Netbooks seem to be all the rage today. Unfortunately, none of them are made by Apple, meaning none of them ship with OS X. By amazing coincidence, though, it turns out there’s one netbook out there that you can apparently install OS X on with relative ease; the Dell Mini 9. 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