Rumors are traveling over the net that Apple will kill support on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 for Atom processors found on netbooks that have made possible a hackintosh installation, something that will shut down a growing trend of buying cheap Dell Mini 10v netbooks and install Mac OS X on them. Apple should have used this trend to understand what people really want and provide a Mac with similar or better features that fills this need.

Not everybody has $999 to buy a elegant Macbook, but $300 Dell Mini is reachable, so if Apple puts out a netbook with a price ranging from $400 to $600, with better design and features, it can easily take over the netbook market and while the profit margin is small, selling some millions of them could help improve Apple earning while not cannibalizing the high end Macbook segment, Apple can position this new netbook to the Education Market, a segment that has been always dominated by Apple.

Killing support for Atom based netbooks will a loss opportunity for Apple to really understand what We have been trying to tell them, that the economy is not this good for everybody out there, but at the same time is wise to notice that Apple is obligated to kill the support for netbook pcs because of its lawsuit with Psystar, Apple needs to tell the Court that Mac OS X is only for Macs and letting out a version of Mac OS X for PC could give Psystar a foot against Apple.

Here is the dilemma, provide Mac OS X for netbooks or launch an Apple netbook, something that is totally out of Apple’s interest.

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