Unleash hidden hardware features through software upgrade

[paolo-]

There have been a few, software enabling the trackpad of older macs to use full multi-touch. The airport upgrade noted before. It's probably possible to make software to enable any remote to pair with a mac. If anything hidden features would probably new things found to be possible with firmware upgrades or apps that take advantage of things apple didn't do themselves. Any self respecting company wouldn't hide a core feature from the public only to reveal it's existence latter. That would be like selling an iPod by saying it can read note and then unlock a secret feature a few months latter that it CAN PLAY MUSIC OMFG .

Things like pressure sensitive trackpad gestures could be possible, a feature that apple has yet to tap into. Or using the leds as disco lights

 

[weezercleaver]

Where did all the posts go?

Yeah I was wondering the same thing, why my posts got deleted? There was nothing offensive about them, I was trying to be nice and say that people ganged up on this guy and it got taken down. Other posts were allowed to stay as irrelevant as "why do you keep saying unleashed?" Makes no sense IMO

 

[thebeans]

Has anybody thought that there might be hidden hardware features on the new Unibody Macbooks? perhaps Touchscreen? Because, for some reason they opted for a glass glossy screen... right? Even on the new Cinema Display, which is clearly focused to designers, who definitively don't like glares on their screens...

Wouldn't it be really cool if once Snow Leopard is released, Unibody users find out that they could now have a touchscreen computer by just upgrading to OS X 10.6 ?

I wonder if someone has already dissected a new unibody screen pannel to see if there's something iPhone-alike... I don't know, I'm not a tech guy, but it would definitively be awesome.

Who knows, it might not be a bad idea for to do such a thing in the future.

Ok, I might be dreaming...

You're Nuckin Futs. and I mean that in the nicest possible way. They are not going to put a touch screen on it and just not tell anyone.

 

[Benguitar]

I am almost 100% sure that you cannot turn a glass screen into a touch screen with just a software update. Great idea though!

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

Where did all the posts go?

Moderation I suppose

 

[Matt1974]

Companies just don't do this. The sale is made from the features available at the time of sale and they want you to upgrade to a new one as soon as possible (hence planed obsolescence). It defies logic to have hidden features for later. Those new discoveries are up to you... they're called software.

"... Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches."

So...? Are you sure about that?

 

[old-wiz]

Bluetooth was known to be there, but only for the Nike+ stuff.

 

[michael.lauden]

yeah dude... maybe my mac is optimus prime too

 

[Knolly]

"... Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches."

So...? Are you sure about that?

However there is a bit of a problem with this comparison.

People took apart the 2G iPod Touch the day it came out and discovered it had bluetooth.

People took apart the aluminum Macbook the day it came out and it PHYSICALLY DOES NOT have a touch screen or any other hardware that has been unannounced.

 

[Bengt77]

If I say yes, there is a touchscreen. Are you going to jump up and down?
Yes, there is a touchscreen built in. You can download an app to enable it. It's called srslywtf.dmg. It's on the apple site.

I see what you did there.

 

[NewMacbookPlz]

"... Apple also revealed that Bluetooth support can be activated in the 2nd generation iPod Touches."

So...? Are you sure about that?

Did you just bump your own thread in an attempt to gain credibility that they'd UNLEASH some new feature with 10.6?

The BT chip was known to exist in the iPod Touch ever since it was torn open by ifixit and other sites.

 

[yellow]

So...? Are you sure about that?

Bluetooth isn't a stretch. A touchscreen on already existing UMBs? That's a serious stretch.

 

[derekjd]

yeah dude... maybe my mac is optimus prime too

Mine is Mega Tron, now we got some issues....