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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Improves Battery Life on 'Hackintosh' Netbooks?

BohoTrash said:
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!
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The MB Air's 13" display is a great size and not too much of a compromise.

If Apple would shrink the width of the bezel around the MacBook Air's display to say 1/4", it would make the entire thing MUCH smaller and more appealing.

Chopping a few hundred bucks of the price and adding a FireWire 800 port would help, too.
 
I am looking forward to installing 10.5.7 on my MSI Wind MacBook.

I will tell you this much, the Wind is the cheapest Mac I've ever owned, and quite possibly my favorite, despite some ergonomic shortcomings Apple could easily engineer away.

My own hope is that Apple's Netbook will be "all-screen" -- essentially four LCD/OLED panels that open and close like a book. Add some haptics and we've got ourselves a party.
 
Returned my Advent 4211 (same as Wind but PCWorld UK own branding) to OSX yesterday because I heard about this and...
...nothing...squat...no improvement whatsoever, so I'm taking these reports with a pinch of salt for now.

Whilst I'd love an 'official' apple netbook apples pricing usually puts it out of my reach, I'm not spending £500+ on a netbook unless it does something really special...actually, damn, knowing apple it will :(
 
gmcalpin said:
But AppleTV doesn't run OSX, so why might this have anything to do with that?
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Now imagine that Apple Inc is actually working on a replacement... one with a new remote control running iPhone OS 3.0 (touch screen) and a new CPU.

p.s. I do happen to know someone (the same guy who blogged about the OS X 10.5.7 release a day before anyone else got it) who is working on a new Apple device (as in writing software for it) due to be released later this year.
 
Apple, bring the Mac netbook (or Mac tablet), but with 400 g or less and capable of opening NATIVE Keynote and PowerPoint presentations. Because even the MacBook Air is too large and heavy!
 
I would say this is pretty serious confirmation that Intel's atom and Nvidia's ion are going in to a tablet of some sort. The battery increase is the evidence there.

I would also say that the product will be announced at wwdc- as if it was not going to be there would be no reason to include the extra code affecting the batteries in the 10.5.7 release- they could have just waited for snow leopard or dropped 10.5.8 later.

I also think this means it will be running OSX and not the iPhone OS, which is nice.

Hmmm... maybe that iProd dock will be the dock for the tablet to let it connect to a full-size monitor... hmmm.... furthermore hmmm....
 
I also own one of these netbooks with OSX installed and I noticed some improvement also. Don't know if I would expect any Atom-Mac however, Apple always shared the non-interest with current Atom netbooks describing them as poorly spec'd with crappy keyboards etc.
 
All this talk of a Mac Netbook sounds so promising. I'd love a 10 inch ish Air to go with my iMac. I think I would prefer that to the mythical table when I start to think of the practicalities of actually using the thing.
 
wHo_tHe said:
I am looking forward to installing 10.5.7 on my MSI Wind MacBook.

I will tell you this much, the Wind is the cheapest Mac I've ever owned, and quite possibly my favorite, despite some ergonomic shortcomings Apple could easily engineer away.

My own hope is that Apple's Netbook will be "all-screen" -- essentially four LCD/OLED panels that open and close like a book. Add some haptics and we've got ourselves a party.
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Now that's a thought. Add oled, thatbis very apple, then charge $2500, very apple. LOL.
 
BRLawyer said:
Especially when everybody sees that those netbook sales are falling down the drain now.
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No they aren't:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/164268/netbook_shipments_jump.html

"IDC last week said worldwide netbook shipments went up sevenfold to roughly 4.5 million during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same quarter last year."

Yeah, going down the drain indeed :rolleyes:

it was just a ridiculous fad to cater to people that feel like working in tiny screens with a tiny keyboard...only Apple is able to reinvent this concept as it did with the iPod and the iPhone; and it's NOT gonna happen now, because they know how ridiculous margins are for these crappy products.
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There are lots and lots of people getting good use from those computers as we sepak, so how could they be "crappy"? Sure, they might noit be as good as a MacBook, but their cost is 1/3 of a MacBook, and they are small enough to be carried all the time. The positive qualities of a MacBook do not matter, if the computer is in your study, and you are sitting in a cafe, now do they? The best computer you can have, is the computer that is available to you.
 
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This is almost like winning the lottery for those with these types of hackintoshes. They just got a pleasant surprise.
 
BRLawyer said:
Especially when everybody sees that those netbook sales are falling down the drain now...it was just a ridiculous fad to cater to people that feel like working in tiny screens with a tiny keyboard...only Apple is able to reinvent this concept as it did with the iPod and the iPhone; and it's NOT gonna happen now, because they know how ridiculous margins are for these crappy products.
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You got a cite to back up your claim that netbook sales are falling? Personally every netbook sales article I've read lately is positive like this one in InformationWeek:http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/desktop/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217500002&subSection=All+Stories. Facts, man. Gimme some facts, and not the ones you pulled from your backside.

From what I'm seeing netbooks are not a fad, they are a solid segment of the laptop market, much like roadsters are in the auto market. No, they are not for everyone, but they are for enough for companies to justify making them.

Personally I have a Lenovo S10. The keyboard IS horrendous, but the rest of the machine is just fine. They are certainly good enough to go on the web and edit a short memo just like the machines are designed to do. In fact when I go on short biz trips I take my S10 instead of my MBP b/c it's lighter and easier to use on a plane.

Now if you want a less than stellar product then take a look at the MBA. Not only it is overpriced for what it is, is has 1 USB port. A $1800-2300 laptop with ONE USB port and a weak processor. Come on. We both know Apple can do better than that, and, hopefull it will.
 
cecemf said:
Wish one of the Dell mini 10, MSI wind or Lenovo S10 is the best for Mac OSX Leopard ?
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The Dell Mini 10v which has just been released should support OS X but until one is delivered nobody knows for sure. Note the original Mini 10 does not support OS X. The Mini 9 runs it perfectly.
 
sneeks said:
The Dell Mini 10v which has just been released should support OS X but until one is delivered nobody knows for sure. Note the original Mini 10 does not support OS X. The Mini 9 runs it perfectly.
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Cool, what's the difference with 10 and 10v ?
 
sneeks said:
The Mini 9 runs it perfectly.
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Yes it does :D

Which reminds me, must find some room in my sig for my Hackbook Nano ;)

As far as Atom optimization goes, I doubt it's explicitly there in 10.5.7, unless Apple plan on releasing something at WWDC and don't believe enough changes will have been made in time to warrant releasing 10.5.8 by then...

Regardless, I'll be intrigued to see how much of a longevity boost 10.5.7 will give my Mini 9 :cool:
 
bogg said:
My MB Unibody decodes h264 in GPU...
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Only the very latest model Mac's do. My SR MBP with the self cooking 8600GT does not, even though it is fully capable of doing so, and when booted into Vista it manages to do that very task.
 
sneeks said:
The Dell Mini 10v which has just been released should support OS X but until one is delivered nobody knows for sure. Note the original Mini 10 does not support OS X. The Mini 9 runs it perfectly.
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Yeah but the 10v loses all the best bits. Dell should have sold the Mini 10 with a gma950 in the first place.
 
dagamer34 said:
Extra Atom support would probably be for a hardware update to the AppleTV line than anything else. It's hardware is 1.5 years old and it can't do 1080p.
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Yes, but isn't nVidia's Ion platform powered by Atom? AFAIK it also uses the 9400M chipset/GPU, which we know Apple's quite fond of. Also, we're pretty sure that Apple not only have engineering samples of Ion, but have for quite some time.

I'd agree it was for AppleTV though, since better power management not only improves battery life on portables, but it makes them run cooler on all devices

And to the person who asked about the power management code, you could have a look, since Apple makes it open source

http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/PowerManagement/PowerManagement-158.10/
 
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