Intel Atom support officially missing from Mac OS X 10.6.2

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  • Reply 21 of 100
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by lylehm View Post


    ... (neither) The Palm Pre, nor the Hackintosh community, present a huge competitive pressure on the Apple juggernaut. But, money is money, and if you can hamper the ankle-biters with little effort, why not?...



    You have no idea about how Apple operates if you think they care about "the money" to the extent that you seem to.



    Apple is a product based company. The profits fall from the skies when they make good products and they are literally rolling in piles of cash.



    They just don't think the way you think they think.
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  • Reply 22 of 100
    gazoobeegazoobee Posts: 3,754member
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    Originally Posted by drjjones View Post


    the update erased my t v recordings on my eye tv by elgato

    also all my scheduling

    anyone have any help on how to get back my recordings ?

    the memory seems to have stayed the same like it is not erased but hiding lol

    help



    None of these sentences make any sense.



    edit: and they aren't even sentences.
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  • Reply 23 of 100
    chronsterchronster Posts: 1,894member
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    Originally Posted by Gazoobee View Post


    None of these sentences make any sense.



    edit: and they aren't even sentences.



    made sense to me. What's with the rudeness?
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  • Reply 24 of 100
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gazoobee View Post


    You have no idea about how Apple operates if you think they care about "the money" to the extent that you seem to.



    Apple is a product based company. The profits fall from the skies when they make good products and they are literally rolling in piles of cash.



    They just don't think the way you think they think.



    Apple is smart about the battles it chooses to fight.
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  • Reply 25 of 100
    Who cares. Atom has nothing to do with current shipping Macs. I also hear Apple removed support for Via chips as well as Commodore CPUs.
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  • Reply 26 of 100
    mactelmactel Posts: 1,275member
    It is ok, I enjoy Windows 7 on my Dell Mini Netbook. The best feature being the HDMI port that I use to connect to my HDTV and stream Netflix to. It is quite awesome. Apple is missing the boat here.



    The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.
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  • Reply 27 of 100
    djrumpydjrumpy Posts: 1,116member
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    Originally Posted by MacTel View Post


    It is ok, I enjoy Windows 7 on my Dell Mini Netbook. The best feature being the HDMI port that I use to connect to my HDTV and stream Netflix to. It is quite awesome. Apple is missing the boat here.



    The Dell feels a bit cheap but it works fine. The only thing I miss on the netbook is bluetooth.



    What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.



    Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.
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  • Reply 28 of 100
    This event seems to indicate a +1 towards ARM being used in the iTablet. But then most folks here have been reckoning that for awhile.



    In any event I'm looking forward to the iTablet big time!
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  • Reply 29 of 100
    the atom is the crappiest cpu on the market, via included.



    I don't want to spoil it to other people, and I appreciate the efforts of the hackintosh hobbyists.



    That said its very obvious most of them are doing a diservice to themselves by not buying a superior apple products. Although with most of these computer modders/geek guys it's much less of an actual attempt to get a working computer to get their job done and more of a perennial moding/testing thing, a sexual thing really, subverted.



    Btw to that guy who runs windows 7 on that dell atom...well good luck...let us know how long it will take you to switch to the next tab in the browser after you 've open 10-15 tabs, less than 15 minutes?



    The best netbooks on the market are the powerbook g4 12" and the air, I don't accept the category, the rest are just plain crap. Get a thin and light laptop or a smart phone, netbooks are an abomination. Let alone crap pc netbooks running os x.



    In any case the atom will be buried very soon by some fantastic ubber power conservative and powerful arm chips as well as I am pretty sure some beauties from in house apple designer pa semi. These guys had far better tec than any "mobile" cpu like the atom by intel four years ago, they did custom business with the us army and intelligence, imagine what they have right now, four years after. Expect to be amazed.
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  • Reply 30 of 100
    I think Apple just wants to make the community work for OSX, and not have it "just work" on crappy hardware.
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  • Reply 31 of 100
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    Originally Posted by Daniel001 View Post


    OS X has no reason to support the Intel Atom, any more than it needs to support the Intel 386.



    The question to that is, why did they not also cut out the code for Centrinos? or Pentiums? Singling out one line of processor like that means they either are going after hackintoshes or they're doing explicit work to that code that requires it to be broken off for now. It's always possible that the Slate will be powered by Atoms. Or the next AppleTV.
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  • Reply 32 of 100
    mac_dogmac_dog Posts: 1,109member
    ...so.
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  • Reply 33 of 100
    mactelmactel Posts: 1,275member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DJRumpy View Post


    What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.



    Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.



    Yes, I know the Mini and Macbook can hook-up to HDTV. I've heard it plenty of times. There are many converter cables but I like the simplicity of one cable. That is especially important on such a small device where every bit of real estate is precious. On at least the Dell Mini Netbook there's no optical drive but there's an SD card (sound familiar?).



    I'm talking about Apple missing the netbook boat. Windows 7, even the starter edition on netbooks, is a good OS. Is it as good as OSX? I my opinion not quite but pretty close. Hopefully Apple will distance themselves from Windows 7 in the next OSX release.



    So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. I could almost buy two of them. And the Mini is visually more appealing.



    The cons of the Mini are that it feels cheap on the glidepad, there's no optical drive (that's extra), and Dell clutters up the display with their own Mac OSX dock rip off. Other than that it is a rocking system. Apple only needs to introduce their own at $599 with similar specs and they'd sell like hotcakes. Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.



    I'm still a Mac OSX fan and will always be but I'm also a Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, RIM, and HP fan when they make good products too.
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  • Reply 34 of 100
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
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    Originally Posted by MacTel View Post


    Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess. They feel they don't need to but maybe they would be in the top 5 computer manufacturers in the world if they did.



    They would like be in the top 5 but how much would it increase their value as a company if they are now selling Macs with razor thin margins? How would it hurt the long term value of the Mac brand if they sold Macs that compete with the cheaply built netbooks? Could Apple even compete with these cheap machines without resorting to selling out to 3rd-party vendors by loading crapware on the systems?



    The bottom line is that Apple doesn?t want to be in that business and running Mac OS X on a netbook is simple. You can DL 10.6.1 builds right now and in a few days you?ll get the bug updates of 10.6.2 with the support for Atom on the torrent sites and newsgroup. Nothing has changed.
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  • Reply 35 of 100
    docno42docno42 Posts: 3,764member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by drjjones View Post


    anyone have any help on how to get back my recordings ?



    Restore from your Time Machine backup?
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  • Reply 36 of 100
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DJRumpy View Post


    Apple haters in 3...2...1...



    On a side note, the update was 200 some odd MB for me. Where do they get this 400MB number from?



    Depending on your configuration you either need up to 400MB or less changes made to your system.
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  • Reply 37 of 100
    docno42docno42 Posts: 3,764member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MacTel View Post


    So for a $349 base price I can do what the Mini can and have a keyboard, glidepad (mouse essentially), and a monitor for $250 less. ... Why they don't make netbooks, mini towers, blades etc is anyone's guess.



    Profit?



    Because netbooks have been so successful for Acer, HP and Dell



    Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.



    Blades - the Mac platform as a server is just too small, and there is no virtualization of Mac OS - just not enough profit to return on the investment in the product line.
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  • Reply 38 of 100
    jfanningjfanning Posts: 3,398member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DJRumpy View Post


    What boat? I have my Mini hooked up as an HTPC. Works fine with HDMI. All you need is a $6.00 DVI to HDMI cable, and a $2.00 S/PDIF optical cable.



    Any Mac including the baseline macbook has the same capability.



    But then you are limited by what audio formats you can support
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  • Reply 39 of 100
    mrrmrr Posts: 74member
    Ok Apple, I get it. No more hackintoshes because you are hacked.



    We are hacked too, because people REALLY do want NETBOOKS - not oversized iPhone iTablets.



    The least you can do is give us a 10" MacBook Air !
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  • Reply 40 of 100
    aizmovaizmov Posts: 989member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DocNo42 View Post


    Mini towers, while I wouldn't mind a small one or two slot Mac mini tower, I don't think they are ever gong to do it. The new i7 iMac's just about put a nail in that coffin.





    An i7 Mac mini would be nice. Maybe in a slightly bigger form factor (4" height vs. 2" for mini) to allow for an optical drive and two hard drives; discrete graphics would be nice too.



    Or an all new i7 Cube?
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