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While it certainly appears that Apple will stay away from the netbook market (with rumors that the company will instead venture into a tablet PC style device shortly), this certainly hasn’t stopped the competition from releasing a netbook product with OS X installed. The latest example? A company called RussianMac (which is also selling other types of PCs with OS X installed) which is now offering what appears to be an ASUS Eee PC netbook with OS X pre-installed. The system (known as the “MiniBook”) features the following:

• Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 160GB 5400RPM HDD
• Intel GMA 950 graphics
• 10.2 inch 1024 x 600 resolution display
• Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0
• 3 USB 2.0 ports, VGA, media card reader

And now.. the price? 19,200 rubles or approximately $616 U.S. dollars. Not exactly cheap for a netbook.

[Check it out via 9 to 5 Mac]

All the talk about running OS X on a netbook system has apparently raised an eyebrow or two over at Apple. The company recently approached Wired.com requesting that a video clip of installing a hacked version of OS X on an MSI Wind netbook be removed. This video clip appeared alongside a “Wired Gadget Lab” posting dating back to December and written by author Brian X. Chen. However, the posting itself is still up – but the video is now gone. It looks like Apple is somewhat OK with the posting – just not the video clip. Here’s hoping the posting stays up because at the very least this shows people are looking for an inexpensive way to run one of their favorite platforms – OS X.

via AppleInsider