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If there is one major flaw with my guides is a lack of explaination. They contain a lot of dos and don’ts, but nothing that really tells you why you can or can’t do something. It’s kind of like going through a ritual without understanding what is going on.

I’ve started writing commentaries for the guides, starting with the most-used one, NetbookInstaller 1. (Find the commentary here.) It’s only a start, and could use some improvement, but it’s the best I’ve got right now. Over time it will improve. I hope it can help people become better educated about their Mac netbooks.

I’ve noticed a few e-mails in my inbox (I’m still sorting through answering them) and there is one question that has popped up a bit: will the 10.6.2 OS update kill our pretty little Dell Macs? Here’s the answer: no one knows.

When this issue first popped up, meklort had stated on the MDM forums that it was a kernel issue, since using the kernel from 10.6.1 on a developer build of 10.6.2 made it work.

Then, while I was gone, it was reported that a later developer build suddenly worked again. And wouldn’t you know it, the latest build apparently knocks it out again. My, my, my….

Here’s the deal, folks. Speculation will not get us anywhere right now. We can’t make a fix for a problem that may or may not exist in the final release build. But you can be assured of one thing: your netbooks will be just fine. Hopefully the final build won’t kill off the Atom processor, and even if it does it will be a very short time before it is fixed. So just wait until it actually comes out and see what happens. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.

So I was watching CSI (it’s a rerun apparently) but a new Get a Mac advertisement just aired: Broken Promises, and boy did they choose a great day to air it, with Windows 7 just releasing less than 24 hours ago. Oh man, I actually let a laugh out, which is not common for me. I find a lot of things humorous, but not so much to actually laugh. Trust me, it’s good. Granted, Mac isn’t perfect, especially on non-Apple hardware, but I think everyone can agree when Mac says, “I think I’ve heard this before.”