Great, can they also go on and improve the battery life in Windows for their MacBooks? Basically, provide power management drivers, please? Because I am tired of Apple advertising Windows support via Boot Camp, yet they forget to mention your battery life will suck donkey balls because that's how they want it.
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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Improves Battery Life on 'Hackintosh' Netbooks?
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Actually, there are a lot of reports concerning problems with display resolutions after the 10.5.7 update. However, it seems that most of them involve displays that are connected over HDMI. In fact, it looks like Apple is detecting (correctly or incorrectly) that a display is running over HDMI and then assumes that it must be an HDTV and so then limits the maximum resolution to 1080p (1920x1080).
In any case, they've definitely done something to the way they handle HDTVs and this may have had consequences for users who are attached to third-party displays.
wow, you are a narc...
can we put DRM in our toothbrushes, too?
FTW, use a hackintosh!
That's a great assumption and I could see that being the case if it weren't for one thing. Isn't 1080p a little taxing for an atom processor? The Apple TV will need one heck of a GPU if it hopes to really offer a 1080p experience on Apple TV.
(See link: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-atom-gn40-blu-ray,7243.html)
It is also worth noting the Apple TV does not currently use an atom processor.
(See link: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...an_apple_tv_tear_down_reveals_almost_all.html)
Oh man. I've been so non-plussed about the idea of a netbook, but all of a sudden a 12 inch Air is looking, well, kind of tasty!
to think about it... why will it use touchscreen? The only reason which i can think of is that it wont use a keyboard/mouse. But the USB ports or bluetooth will support the bluetooth mouse... as a mouse would be needed for programs such as Photoshop, etc.
Or perhaps the keyboard would be virtual and there will be a clip on bluetooth one? It would be annoying when ur fingers get in the way during editing...
Or perhaps the keyboard would be virtual and there will be a clip on bluetooth one? It would be annoying when ur fingers get in the way during editing...
Yeah it's amazing that many people still look to decode video on the CPU alone. Then again that's all that Apple gives us.
I ran 10.4.x on a iMac G3 @ 450Mhz and it didn't lag one bit (it just took forever to launch applications)
Yes, very interesting.
I am a bit confused about this one though, because I think a product in the netbook category could happen, but more along the lines of the tablet, however, I am almost certain that the tablet would run the iPhone OS with the App Store. But it does add sense to why 10.5.7 took so long.
I dunno
Any thoughts people?
So people think ... apple is optimizing 10.5.7 for Atom processors ... If they are doing that it is for reasons I will get to in a minute ... Why would they do this ... if they are planing on releasing a netbook it will almost 99% without a doubt ship with 10.6 ... not 10.5 ... I have not heard of it being popular for Mac users to downgrade say from my mac shipped with Leopard let's install Tiger for fun ... I think it sadly is 100x more likely that this was intentional if and only if ... Leopard owners get free upgrades to 10.6 then I could see this being a real possibility , the last explanation I believe someone said was that apple would be shipping a stripped OSX to the Netbooks ... also I could see that as possible but ... really how stripped, or just flat out licensing a stripped down version of OSX to netbooks ... once again not a reality ... I think the main reason that apple did this if be it intentional was atom chips will be in some upcoming unit be it an apple TV or whatever ... and apple wanted to see the response from netbook users about performance improvements, especially knowing that if a hackintosh see upgrades then a mac should too if they focus on a specific hardware set ...
I'm with Eidorian, flopticalcube, t0mat0, and may others on this.
1st: why front page?
2nd: why would there be a string for the atoms in Leopard with WWDC a few weeks away when any netbook that would possibly be would come out? And wouldn't it ship with SL unless SL isn't expected to ship until December? (which it won't)
If anything my guess would be improved power management that happens to greatly improve hackbook battery life where it was supposed to slightly improve power use on macbook (pro/air). All said I'm not inclined to believe this particular take on the netbook rumor. There may be one in the future but I doubt this is a sign.
1st: why front page?
2nd: why would there be a string for the atoms in Leopard with WWDC a few weeks away when any netbook that would possibly be would come out? And wouldn't it ship with SL unless SL isn't expected to ship until December? (which it won't)
If anything my guess would be improved power management that happens to greatly improve hackbook battery life where it was supposed to slightly improve power use on macbook (pro/air). All said I'm not inclined to believe this particular take on the netbook rumor. There may be one in the future but I doubt this is a sign.
Special relationship
let's not forget apple's special relationship with intel perhaps they are working on something specific like they did with the air ?
let's not forget apple's special relationship with intel perhaps they are working on something specific like they did with the air ?
If Apple release a netbook...
It would run SNOW LEOPARD, not 10.5.7. Therefore, I don't think the reason behind the improved battery life has anything to do with an Atom based netbook.
It just so happens that 10.5.7 makes everything run more smoothly making the system having to correct less errors thereby reducing CPU, memory, and other hardware usage and increase battery life.
Therefore, I don't believe this improved battery life on the hackintoshes has anything to do with the Atom processor.
Wired summarizes some surprising experiences of users who have hacked their MSI Wind netbooks to run Mac OS X. These so called "hackintoshes" when updated to Mac OS X 10.5.7 have experienced dramatic boosts in battery effeciency. The reports suggest that Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.7 contain added optimizations for Intel's Atom processor and associated hardware. This, of course, is prompting speculation that support for such configurations may hint at new Apple notebooks based on similar netbook designs.
Apple has been rumored to be working on a netbook with a possible release this year.
Article Link: Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Improves Battery Life on 'Hackintosh' Netbooks?
It would run SNOW LEOPARD, not 10.5.7. Therefore, I don't think the reason behind the improved battery life has anything to do with an Atom based netbook.
It just so happens that 10.5.7 makes everything run more smoothly making the system having to correct less errors thereby reducing CPU, memory, and other hardware usage and increase battery life.
Therefore, I don't believe this improved battery life on the hackintoshes has anything to do with the Atom processor.
Clan Hackintosh and Lazarus Jobs.
Sooo... Apple improves power efficiency for the hackintosh clan... I think not!
The Third Reckoning of Apple-Jobs is iTouch;
With the recent hirings for hardware, software, the recent flurry of patents 2008 and the apparent recent bulk 10 inch screen orders one would think Lazarus Jobs' is striding the surface of his Macbook Touch project at a more accelerated pace and spinning up the Apple FTL for a Touchbook future...
Stay Tuned.
Sooo... Apple improves power efficiency for the hackintosh clan... I think not!
The Third Reckoning of Apple-Jobs is iTouch;
With the recent hirings for hardware, software, the recent flurry of patents 2008 and the apparent recent bulk 10 inch screen orders one would think Lazarus Jobs' is striding the surface of his Macbook Touch project at a more accelerated pace and spinning up the Apple FTL for a Touchbook future...
Stay Tuned.
... my Air seems to run slightly cooler with 10.5.7 - like 2-3 C less.
(I have a rev. B.)
10.5.7 Fixed MBP Sleep Issue!
I haven't tested the battery life on my 2.6Ghz MacBook Pro, but 10.5.7 FINALLY fixed the sleep problem I've been having since 10.5.5!
I use an external 1920 x 1200 monitor and whe I would wake the system from sleep, the internal MBP display would go dark after 5 or 10 seconds. At first I was restarting, thinking it might be a video circuit problem. Once I tried hitting the screen brightness keys and it the MBP monitor worked fine.
The first time I woke my system after applying the 10.5.7 update the MBP's monitor stayed on! FINALLY!
As for hackintoshes, if someone wants to trust their work and data to unsupported hardware, fine. Just don't cry when something goes wrong.
I want a full size screen, keyboard and well designed and build gear, so those teensy weensy netbook POS boxes have zero appeal for me.
I haven't tested the battery life on my 2.6Ghz MacBook Pro, but 10.5.7 FINALLY fixed the sleep problem I've been having since 10.5.5!
I use an external 1920 x 1200 monitor and whe I would wake the system from sleep, the internal MBP display would go dark after 5 or 10 seconds. At first I was restarting, thinking it might be a video circuit problem. Once I tried hitting the screen brightness keys and it the MBP monitor worked fine.
The first time I woke my system after applying the 10.5.7 update the MBP's monitor stayed on! FINALLY!
As for hackintoshes, if someone wants to trust their work and data to unsupported hardware, fine. Just don't cry when something goes wrong.
I want a full size screen, keyboard and well designed and build gear, so those teensy weensy netbook POS boxes have zero appeal for me.