My netbook goes legit...

After a few days with the iPad, it has become clear that there is not much room in my day-to-day life for the Hackintosh netbook I have blogged about previously. I've pretty much found that the functions I used to turn to the netbook for are now being met quite well with the iPad. My desktop computer has even seen less use since the iPad has arrived. With its gorgeous screen (1024x768 vs. the Hackintosh's 1024x600), onscreen keyboard for light duty and pairing with my Apple bluetooth keyboard for more intensive typing, the iPad is now my portable option of choice.

So where does that leave my MSI Wind U100 Hackintosh? Pretty much at a dead end. Since I won't be needing its services much, I decided tonight to drop the unauthorized Mac OS/X installation as the average user can't really be expected to deal with the various idiosyncrasies of running OS/X on unauthorized hardware. So my netbook is going back to Windows from whence it came.

Now if I decide to pass the netbook on to a relative or friend I don't have to provide a list of caveats on upgrades and the various oddities of the hardware.

So long my Hackintosh friend...