Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update Improves Battery Life on 'Hackintosh' Netbooks?
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.
Apple has been rumored to be working on a netbook with a possible release this year.
Reports from the MSI Wind forums are claiming a boost up to 33%, from 3 hr 45 min to a shade over five hours, using a six-cell 4400 mAh battery.
The writer, Dalton63841, has tested this to make sure its not just over-optimistic reporting by the OS. Another poster is also seeing a boost from three and a half to four and a half hours.
Apple has been rumored to be working on a netbook with a possible release this year.
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36 months ago
Bring on the Apple netbook or whatever Apple wants to call it! On a side note, will the improved battery performance add fuel to the MSI Wind Hackintosh efforts?
36 months ago
Interesting stuff, but just what we don't need... more pointless rumors about an apple product that just isn't going to happen.
36 months ago
A HackBook Nano is looking more and more attractive, but I'm gonna wait to see what WWDC has to offer before I get a Lenovo S10.
36 months ago
Interesting stuff, but just what we don't need... more pointless rumors about an apple product that just isn't going to happen.
It is MacRumors.com :rolleyes:
I would never say never.
36 months ago
I dont care for Atom it seems like a step backwards for Apple maybe a Dual core Atom processor but single plus OSX seems like it would lag a lot!
36 months ago
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.
36 months ago
I don't think there are going to be any special Atom strings in the 10.5.7 package given the length of time we've had to study it.
Surprise me.
Surprise me.
36 months ago
Well that's great, Apple improves battery life on hackbooks, yet my Air now seems to consistently run hotter and hence shorter life. Cheers very much!
*grumble grumble snow leopard better not be like this grumble grumble*
*grumble grumble snow leopard better not be like this grumble grumble*
36 months ago
I don't think there are going to be any special Atom strings in the 10.5.7 package given the length of time we've had to study it.
Surprise me.
36 months ago
Unless a netbook by apple is in the offing in the next couple of months, I doubt the conclusion. Most likely anything of this type that would be released by Apple would be post SL or if the rumors about a 3G connection are true, maybe the device would have the iPhone OS 3.0 as a platform.
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