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Jeff Campbell
04-16-2010, 06:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/14/hackintosh-friendly-dell-mini-10v-discontinued/' target='_blank'>http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/14/hack...v-discontinued/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"The Dell Mini 10v, choice of netbook hackintosh owners everywhere, has apparently been discontinued as of a week ago. I discovered that today when I couldn't find any on Dell's site, and confirmed it with a live chat with a support representative who told me it was discontinued last week. A message was left for Dell's Media Relations team but was not immediately returned."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1271351364.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>He finally did get a reply, and Dell has end-of-lifed this item since they are going to update their netbooks with the Intel Pine Trail Atom processor. Dell couldn't tell him if the new processor would be hackintosh-able. So if you were planning on doing this, check out eBay or the refurbished section on Dell.&nbsp;</p>

doogald
04-16-2010, 08:19 PM
Dell couldn't tell him if the new processor would be hackintosh-able.

Just a guess, but I'm thinking that when Dell is deciding on features for a particular Netbook model, this is not one of the things that they really consider at all.