If you are one of those adventurous Eee PC owners that have had the desire to install OS X on your netbook and turn it into a “Hackintosh” then you may be pleased to know that thanks to some persistant hackers and a new application, your sound issues - it has been virtually impossible to get sound working when using OS X on an Eee PC until now - can all be solved.

Hackers have created a work around, similar to the method used to get sound working on the MSI Wind. You need to install a different audio driver and the Apple developer tools first of all and then grab the new application that developer ipis OS X have created. Audieee allows the sound to be controlled from the menu bar on OS X, allowing you to switch between headphones/speakers as your output of choice, something that doesnt happen automatically yet but, be sure there is a hacker somewhere working on a fix for this too.

AMD will be holding a Financial Analyst Day on Thursday and notebooks.com expect that this will be the time that AMD announce they will be entering the netbook component market, producing processors for them.

The flourishing netbook market could be just the place for AMD to boost their flagging sales of late and AMD are expected to try their luck and compete with the Intel Atom processors that dominate the netbook component market currently, with most netbook manufacurers using the Atom CPU.

There are pictures circulating on the internet currently that shows a Lenovo S10 sporting a 6 cell battery - something that Lenovo haven’t announced that they are making yet.

The images show the netbook and show that the battery is protruding from the rear of the unit just like 6 cell batteries do. We don’t think it’s a Lenovo battery and there is no firm details on where the battery came from or who is making/selling them. It could be a prototype possibly. Wherever it came from, it will hopefully be available to S10 owners soon and we will let you know as soon as we get more information on the battery and on whether it will be available officially from Lenovo worldwide.

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Brad Linder has posted up news of a “Pre-Black Friday” deal involving the Eee Box - the desktop equivalent of the Eee PC netbook.

If you are quick - the deal only runs for one day - J&R Music and Computer World are selling the Eee Box on Amazon.com for $269.99 which is a good saving of between $20 and $50 on the usual selling price of the PC.

Here is a quick rundown of the features and specs of the Asus Eee Box on offer:

• Full-powered desktop PC in tiny package–perfect for de-cluttering desk or adding to HDTV as media hub
• Energy-efficient 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom processor helps reduce electric bill and carbon footprint
• Boots up as quickly as 7 seconds, mounts on back of a VESA-compatible HDTV
• 80 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM, Draft-N Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), Gigabit Ethernet, four USB ports, DVI video output
• Pre-installed with Windows XP Home; includes Microsoft Works for word processing and spreadsheets

So, if you are in the market for an Eee PC that stays at home or in the office, this could be an enticing offer for you or, you could wait until Black Friday and try your luck with the deals on offer then. Decisions, decisions.

After spending a little time on the HP website looking at the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Limited Edition which, is something that should appeal to the female netbook user more than the guys out there, it was a ‘girlie fate’ that brought the upcoming Acer Aspire One to my attention.

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A new model of the HP Mini 1000 will be available in January, according to Liliputing and the HP store.

The current Mini 1000, which was released last week, runs Windows XP and is priced shy of $400 by a cent at $399.99 however, HP were also advertising a Linux version of their new netbook. There was no release date stated for the Linux version but, now we have a date of January for the Linux Mini 1000, which is priced at ’starting from’ $379.99.

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Laptop Mag have posted up a ‘preview’/first look at the proto-type CTL 2go Tablet which is netbook sized and is based on Intel’s 3rd Gen Classmate PC aka “netvertible”. CTL are the first company to take Intel’s design into the market, a design which includes a rotating touchscreen.

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VIA sources have indicated that they and Nvidia have suspended the deal that was set up in April this year, to work on a platform for netbooks and MID’s together.

This was to be a another ‘cooperation’ between the two companies that are already working together to build desktop PC components, that could have seen the VIA C7 and Nano processors paired with MCP79 IGP chipsets which could have seen the two companies become a bigger ‘player’ in the netbook phenomenon.