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04/16/09
If you are using the USB method with two partitions described above (I did) - then you may have to enter "81" instead of "80" to choose to boot from the SSD after you have installed OS X, but are still doing steps with the "Type 11" bootloader partition, at step 15.
If you're using USB and following all the steps, and think it's not working, try entering "81" instead of "80" at the point where the Gizmodo guide calls for it.
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Also, some of the files may not download from their links - search for the filenames and you should find them.
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Interestingly, the Dell Ubuntu install comes with several nice Linux apps (open office, stellarium, kids stuff, games etc). Play around with it a bit on ubuntu to see if you like any of the stuff that comes with it, as almost all those apps are ported to OS X.
04/16/09
There are other ways to do it. The Dell Mini forums are a good place to look.
BUT - whatever you chose - the Type 11 install is best for the Mini9.
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LINUX FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously, try the latest Ubuntu (if you use a netbook, theres even a nice interface for that).
If you want something more flashy, then fedora looks realy nice with KDE 4.2.
02/21/09
Tried 10.4.9. Liked it. Apple released 10.4.10. It broke a bunch of programs. I didn't like that. Tried 10.5. Didn't like that it was full of bugs. Apple released 10.5.1 two weeks later. Didn't like that Apple shipped a buggy product late. Then the drive in my MacBook broke 2 weeks out of warranty. I didn't like that. Apple said I should have bought the $300 AppleCare warranty to cover the $150 drive. I didn't like that. Threatened to sue. Liked that. Apple fixed the computer for free. Eventually switched back to Windows because I'm a PC.
Tried Vista. Liked it okay. Tried Vista 64. Liked it okay but didn't like that there wasn't a lot of driver support for it at the time. Went back to Vista.
Tried Windows 7. Loved it. Tried Windows 7 (64). Still loving it.
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They had a "clone" program before where they licensed the OS to run on other brands of hardware. QA problems nearly killed the company.
OS X runs as nicely as it does because it only has to worry about running on a handful of computers, as opposed to Windows or Linux which are built to run on a variety of hardware setups with occasionally mixed results.
That's basically it, really.
02/21/09
That may be the official reason given for buying out the clone manufacturers, but I don't think that's the real reason. What happened was that Apple gambled that clones would expand the MacOS market share, and that didn't happen. Instead the clones merely cannibalized sales. So Apple bought out the one or two clone manufacturers that had made a go of it.