1. The trackpad and buttons are a little too small for my liking and I can sometimes have a second finger hovering over the pad sending the cursor shooting madly around the screen. With careful finger placement I can overcome this but I never seem to remember between sessions. You can’t really blame Dell and call this a design fault as the pad could only be made bigger at the expense of the keyboard size so they spent the available real estate on the correct place.
To combat this I’ve invested in a mini Bluetooth mouse which, yes, is something else to carry around but it’s worth it for prolonged periods of use.

2. Occasionally OS X won’t boot. The screen goes grey, the Apple logo appears and then… nothing. I’ve read about this on other Mini 9 Hackintosh reviews and it’s possibly something that can be fixed at some point. My estimate is that it happens maybe once in ever 10 boots and is easily combatted with a power-off and power-on.

Other than that I could not find fault with anything about this device and OS combination. I’ve grown perfectly used to the keyboard which, although small, is ‘large’ enough for almost full-size touch typing speeds. Mac OS X works flawlessly and all in all I’m extremely happy.

A friend and I have been looking for something that might be a replacement for her magic Pismo if it finally dies, (was there ever a more flexible laptop?)

We’ve been trailing your research by a few months, not really impressed by what we’ve seen but enticed by the practicality – now you have shown us what looks like a gorgeous solution.

And judging by your rave, a functional one too. A few reports lately in other places suggest that Dell’s build quality has improved, so . . . .

Thank you for finding the time to write these notes.