I am not having a great morning, AND I have a computer question

[cupcake_goth]

ARgh, panic and chaos for one of the product teams I support. Nothing dire, but they are in a state of "OMG FLAIL WHY ISN'T THIS THING WORKING". That, combined with my network connectivity occasionally vanishing, meant that I had to spend a lot of time talking people off the ledge and waiting for tools to connect. Whee. Oh, and something went wonky in my building, and my office has been turned into a freezer. Good thing I have a lot of tea here.

So, computer question. I am contemplating purchasing one of those teeny-tiny netbook computers, because having a teeny-tiny Windows machine that I can use to connect to the corporate network and remote to my work desktop would be pretty awesome. But, I'm a Mac girl. (Yes, even tho' I work at That Other Place.) I am also spectacularly clueless when it comes to tweaking or fiddling with computers. Now, Gizmodo recently had a post about how to hack a Dell mini 9 into running OS X. (Clicky-link!). My question is this: would there be a way to, er, flip the netbook between running OSX and a Windows OS? Because that would make things perfect for me.

No flame-wars, please, about which OS is superior, or anything else like that. I need advice, not arguments.

Comments

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

I've a number of friends who are running Mac Laptops with one of the several Windows emulators - and doing it for work (these are coding tester friends - who live on them to test, write code, reboot servers and the like) - which would probably be my approach if I were going to get a laptop (also a mac girl). Not as inexpensive as a mini-windows only box - but more useful to folks like me.

OTOH, if the Hackintosh trick actually works - sign me up! :>