Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.

The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo

@dk @stroughtonsmith ah! back then I had the same Dell Mini 9 running Snow Leopard! It's not on, but you can see it on my college-era desk https://jeffburg.social/@jeff/115183762935650631
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Attached: 3 images I was going through old photos to find pictures of my old tech. I want to make a long blog post about this, but it will take a while. So for now I will share some highlights I found of my desk I had in college. It has: - Aluminum 20" iMac with external 24" monitor - Dell Mini 9 Netbook Snow Leopard Hackintosh - NeXT Cube Sorry in advance for blurry photos, but digital cameras sucked back then. #OpenStep 1/3

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@dk nice! Do you still have yours?? I dumped mine when I moved to Japan. I regret but at the same time don’t regret it haha.
@jeff yup that’s it on my desk. doesn’t boot unfortunately. someday I’ll have the courage to open it up and see why. Japan?!
@dk nice! Well feel free to join http://nextcommunity.net/forums/index.php if you want help doing that. We’re all pretty active when people have questions.
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@jeff wonderful! will do.

@dk and why Japan? I lived in San Francisco, but I wanted to live in a bigger city. I had job offers in New York and Tokyo. But I had forgotten how dirty and loud New York was until I visited for the interview. So I took a leap of faith.

Lucky for me I have grown to like it more and more. I don't think I could move back at this point. My personality is that I am just incredibly particular... and Tokyo is perfect for that 🤣

@jeff delighted to hear!