eeeMac runs OS X on an even smaller portable than the Air

I'm triple booting my 1000h but mainly use osx on it. The sound card works. I have an occaisional issue when shutting down the system hangs and I need to hold the power button to kill it. Also the resume from sleep doesn't play very well. Bar that its all very stable and runs very happily. I've upgraded the hdd to 250gb which causes a lag as its 5400rpms - thinking about getting a 320gb 7200rpm drive as the ssds are still a bit too pricey however I think the impact on battery usage might not be worth it.

Anyway, I'm totally convinced this was a good and worthwhile purchase/use of time.

It's not really that impressive to be smaller than a MacBook Air. The MacBook Air isn't small, it's just thin.

"Good looking"? It looks like a plastic toy out a cornflakes box, whatever OS is running on it.

are all you HP and MSI lovers out there aware that battery life for the HP with 6 cell (which has a HUGE downward facing hump) is right at 4 hours, and the wind manages more like 3 hours, vs 6+ hours for any of the EEE's??
Just thought you might want to reconsider the keyboards or screens as a primary selling point and consider battery life

I got an eee pc 1000h and now have it dual booting osx and XP. It's great with osx - although it has 2 "minor" quirks. 1 - built in sound doesn't work because there are no drivers 2 - The wifi drivers work fine, but need to stop & start the card whenever you boot or bring the machine out of sleep mode. For the money (I paid $439) it's amazing. Completely usable, fast enough to run open office, firefox, thunderbird, adium, etc. Highly recommended.

Again (just like with mid size desktops) proof that there there is a need for a more diverse product line at Apple. I too would like an ultra portable system. With more I/O options than the MBA. The MBA has the $$$ form over function by Apple written all over it.

It is time as well Apple updates some specs and lowers their prices or raises the specs considerably.

Note that I don't mind paying a little extra for an Apple system (done so plenty of times) or that I want Apple to become the next run of the mill product peddler; but the gap is just too big.

Half a year ago there were already 13" notebooks with identical to better specs for 2/3 to 3/4 of the price of a MacBook (own both MB & competitor). Besides more RAM, standard DVD burner, card readers etc they don't have the chicklet keyboard. The MB gives you a scratch prone case, same glossy screens with low resolution and limited color, odd keyboards etc.

So, if you are OS agnostic (just using both side by side), with less feature for plenty more $ at Apple, the value is just not there.

Time for Apple to put the ego aside, bring some much needed updates (mini & displays) and new products (small tower, cube2) on the market a little more function and a pinch less design.

interesting,

here is someone who's done the same on an Acer Aspire One:
http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1505

I bought one of those myself and will install OSX too once I get the compatible Wifi card.

(fwiw, I use macs normally, but these mini comptuers are just so nice and hackable I couldn't resist :))

I bought one of these after being disappointed with the Air. I had been hanging on to replace my powerbook G4. I've got Xubuntu running complete with Photoshop via Wine. Works brilliantly, I'm really surprised how easy it was to use from a Linux newbie point of view. Bottom line; if you want a tiny laptop it really isn't that bad doing without OS X.

"you have to admit, that's one good-looking little ultraportable"

No, I don't. It might be small, but it's ugly as a bucket of smashed crabs.

"but you have to admit, that's one good-looking little ultraportable."

Umm... No, I don't. It's actually pretty ugly.