...are they deliberately trying to lose money?

One of the most popular hackintosh netbooks, (nearly) every sale of which was a win for Dell and a loss for Apple. Fortunatley I got mine two months ago, and I have been completely satisfied. There's nothing better (well ok, there's loads of things better) than sticking a small light cheap Mac in your carrier bag without noticing the weight or worrying about damaging its pristine exterior. Sometimes I swear it feels faster than my C2D 2 GHz iMac. One can only imagine what Apple can do with the hardware if their OS already runs so smoothly on such a low powered device thanks to the efforts of a few hackers.