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

[iansilv]

Do you have problems with reading-comprehension or something? Let me spell it out for you:

"indicating the mini-notebook OEMs held significant inventory of Atom processors coming into the new year."

In plain English: OEMs stuffed their inventories with Atoms in Q4, so they had less of a need to buy them in Q1. And if you actually checked reports about sles of netbooks, as opposed to sales of Atom-CPU's, you would see growth. IDC (the research-company you cited) says that sales of netbooks grew sevenfold in Q1, the same quarter when sales of Atoms went down.

Yeah! Idiot! Stupidhead! Stupid macforums poster with stupid incorrect information who is an idiot!

You know, this forum, more than any other forum I have ever read has an incredible number of self-righteous ******s talking down to people and spewing petty crap.

 

[nookster]

Besides, the screen and keyboard on the iPhone/touch is even more cramped. When I type with an iPhone, I can see maybe two lines of text. I fail to see why people whine about the keyboards on netbooks, while the keyboard on iPhone is even smaller. Some netbook-keyboards are good enough for touch-typing, can you do that with the iPhone?

Yep. Some perspective against the 'full size' Apple wireless effort. To be fair, my netbook is a 'big' 10" beast. Was going to put my hand in shot, they look HUGE in front of all these keyboards.

Updated to 10.5.7, no real difference in the battery that I can tell, but it's running very nicely (as usual).

 

[Eidorian]

I just checked mine and it does seem to have given me an extra 45 minutes. At least that is what its reporting. Probably just a random blip.

After a bit more experience with the battery under 10.5.7 I've noticed an extra 30 minutes now.

 

[madmaxmedia]

10.5.7 was not ready for prime time. Should have spent more time testing it.

They were probably too focused on improving netbook battery life performance...

 

[mikmas]

That's just your opinion. I would like a computer that I could take with me, that I could use as a dumbing-ground for pictures from my camera and with I could type some text with. If I went Apple-route, I would be looking at 1000e laptop. If I went netbook-route, I would be spending 300-400e. And the netbook would be a lot more mobile.

I'm with you on that. We have 4 Macs in the house and I have lugged around an iBook for long enough to welcome netbooks with open (and tired) arms.

After more than 15 years of 'Mac only' purchases I have recently acquired a Samsung NC10 and it now runs XP and OSX with equal ease and to be honest there is no way I would have considered replacing the iBook with even the cheapest MacBook - simply because in the weight, size and price battle there is no real contest. And yes, I have an iPod Touch, - but that's really a cute games machine cum video jukebox and not really an alternative.

Having had time to look at the build of the Samsung there is also no real contest - and I speak as someone who has stripped the iBook down enough times (and a fair few Mac desktops including the Minis) to know the ins and outs of the Apple design architecture.

Apple make good kit but they ain't infallible and this is why I now put up with awkward keyboard layouts and not so elegant mice rather than use any of their peripherals anymore - I've had enough failures in that overpriced department to put me off permanently.