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- Lightstab, on 11/04/2009, -9/+65I knew this was bogus and said so when it first appeared on Digg, but of course I got buried for saying so.
Notice that people automatically believe a negative rumor about Apple, even if it's an unconfirmed rumor, but if you say something positive about Apple, like, "Apple's Mac sales will increase when Windows 7 comes out," every Apple hating person on Digg becomes a ***** scientist and breaks out diagrams and pie charts to prove you wrong. - KMartSheriff, on 11/05/2009, -2/+28Hold on, are you suggesting a rumor on the internet was blown out of proportion?
- sruffelman, on 11/05/2009, -9/+30I would love an apology from all the Apple haters the other day who couldn't resist taking cheap shots from a rumor about an unreleased product.
- Lightstab, on 11/05/2009, -5/+22Why the hell would Apple care about the rage of some cheap bastards buying netbooks instead of their pricey Macbooks? The more likely explanation is that Atom was never blocked in the first place. This stupid rumor was started by one guy on a forum and there is no way to prove his story either because there wasn't any real evidence to begin with. And it was a developer build on top of everything else, so it was never even released to the public.
Stupid Internet rumors. - KMartSheriff, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13I got the joke. ;) Apparently, many others here did not.
- Orbital101, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13Good luck with that.
- KMartSheriff, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13...and that rumor was? Your claim is so vague, I find it hard to believe.
- mrBitch, on 11/05/2009, -1/+12@ Lightstab, RE: " .. Why the hell would Apple care about the rage of some cheap bastards buying netbooks instead of their pricey Macbooks? The more likely explanation is that Atom was never blocked in the first place."
Good point. - mashedup, on 11/05/2009, -10/+21Apple will soon require you to enter a license key in the next release of their OS and prove you have a valid license whenever you download from their site. What a bunch of elitist ***** they are. I'll be staying right here with Windows thank you very much.
- kreatre2007, on 11/05/2009, -2/+12WTF are you talking about? They released Mac OS 10.6 less than 3 months ago! Now, the second maintenance release is already on the way. Would you prefer that they release this update before it's ready? You must not understand how software development works. All OS releases (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc.) are flawed. Compare Apple's maintenance updates to Microsoft's service pack releases. It takes MS a lot longer to release a service pack. You're an idiot.
- joaob, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10So is this the comment section where everyone who threw a ***** fit comes to their senses?
Or is this one of the "it could possibly happen so it's still true" stories - kreatre2007, on 11/05/2009, -2/+11Good! Now, all of the hacker boys who were bitching and whining about this can shut the hell up. It's a developer pre-release build people! It was stupid to get all worked up over this in the first place.
- yaazz, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8I dont really see what you did there.
- mashedup, on 11/05/2009, -2/+9Well you see there's this concept called satire and what I... ah forget it.
- sputnikv, on 11/05/2009, -3/+9this is true
- KMartSheriff, on 11/05/2009, -2/+8Yeah, how dare they make sure their update works through rigorous testing!
- kreatre2007, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6According to the latest reports, that's one of the flaws that this update is meant to address.
- seltaeb4, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Took me a second.
But your average forum "Apple is the devil" WinFan is so ill-informed that it was believable. - xR0e, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6I take my "***** You Apple" comment back.
For now. - kgerm, on 11/05/2009, -1/+6BOOBIES
- VitriolAndAngst, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Pretty good since the OS was never built to run on ATOM.
The whole "disables ATOM" was an idiotic rant in the first place, and the know-nothing tech writers are at it again by saying it restores ATOM support.
If it runs on a hackintosh with an ATOM CPU is probably happy circumstance. Maybe they sabotaged the iPhone 3.0 software to not run as well?
/face palm - colincornaby, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4Hackintosh people need to unwad their panties... Most betas of OS X break on Apple's own hardware. If it breaks on an unsupported configuration, it's hardly the end of the world, or at all surprising.
The Hackintosh people are like the newbs of the Mac community... This is nothing like the hardware breakage that came with the original OS 10.0 betas on real Macs. - sudowrestler, on 11/05/2009, -4/+8Very few Mac users pay much attention to Windows stories one way or the other. Almost every Apple thread is, however, overrun with Windows trolls.
- bigsteve, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3He demonstrated that when you turn the V clockwise about 130° and chop off the "ista," it makes the OS faster, more stable, have an improved driver interface model, and be more efficient. In short, it makes the OS be what Vista should have been.
- Hodor, on 11/12/2009, -0/+2Looks like you were wrong anyway. Score one for Internet rumors!!
http://digg.com/apple/Confirmed_Latest_OS_X_won_t_ ... - Ac1115, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3WHOOSH
- sickthoughts, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3This story is trending.
That is all. - hmar2, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Your examples are both of companies selling products. Apple has never moved against the x86 community, they seem to be only dimly aware of them. Hackintoshes, unless sold by a company like Psystar, really have very little negative effect for Apple, and may even be positive.
Of course, why Apple supports the Atom chip in the first place, considering the EULA restricts any use of OSX and Atom, is beyond me anyway. - doctordbx, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3I think the AppleTV is destined for the scrap heap. No major hardware update in a loooooooong time and well... cheaper easier hardware devices and console out there already eclipse its abilities.
- hoodedrobin, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Personally being a windows user i thought apple tv was a great idea and it didnt look bad at all. My issue with it was it only played 480p and upscaled to 720p, whereas my PS3 can play 1080p from multiple formats off of my thumbdrive.
- ohreilly, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Ever used the activation procedure?
I have, many times. If I get through to India all they ask is "how many computers is it installed on", to which you answer 1. They may then ask "are you trying to reactivate <product name>", then you say yes again. They put you back to the automated system which gives you a confirmation ID.
Nowadays (the UK line anyway) you don't even get through to India - the automated system just asks you the same question.
In short, if you looked at the statistics, I doubt MS has ever refused activation to anyone (if your key is legit and not shared by 100000 people, that is). You don't need to "ask for permission" at all. - VitriolAndAngst, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Apple will also have a breathalyzer on the Macbook -- but not the Macbook Pro... how effing elitist is that?
- firstrule, on 11/05/2009, -1/+3I take it all you people who said that you would never buy an Apple product because of this, will now come up with another reason not to.
- etx313, on 11/05/2009, -0/+2Yes you can get it running really well on the mini 9 i believe. But I have a feeling you wont have the patience to do the work to get it running.
- Leopards, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Just seems funny to me that you can get Snow Leopard to run on a Dell Netbook, but not a Power PC Mac!! 8-)
- ducttape36, on 11/05/2009, -1/+2I'm sorry.
But seriosuly, you can't run OSX on an atom processor as it would violate apple's terms since they dont make any macs with atom processors. so the point is moot. just ask pystar.
sorry though. really. - eljitto, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1a good list has three reasons, not four.
Dugg Down - kreatre2007, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1That's stupid. The supposed bugs aren't show stoppers. I have upgraded 3 offices to Snow Leopard, including 2 servers. They're all working well, albeit with a couple of printers that I had to find work arounds for. One of these customers is a small ad agency who uses Adobe CS. Usually, it's the design apps that give us the most problems with Mac OS upgrades. Adobe CS3 actually seems to work better on Snow Leopard even though Adobe has officially said that it's not supported. Oh well. I guess you can sit and wait while others enjoy the new OS.
- DanielPhermous, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1It may be incidental. Atom is still based on x86 so it may just work without the OS needing to explicitly have code to allow it.
Just a guess, mind. - colincornaby, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Could your guy sitting next to you play a DVD or burn a CD-RW in 10.0 with the drives that came with the machine?
Oh wait? He couldn't? Because 10.0 didn't support Apple's own DVD or CD-RW drives?
I've been a Mac user for 15 years. I remember all the breakage 10.0 and 10.0 PB brought on Apple's own hardware. Even in 10.1, stuff like internal floppy drives never worked, on supported hardware. - JohnnySoftware, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1Select All, Put Back should work
- clyde2801, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1I'm wondering why a company doesn't build machines with identical hardware components to current macs and make them supremely easy to hackintosh; ship them with ubuntu to keep costs down. A couple of posts to the hackintosh community "OMG! I just hackintoshed a ClydePC with 10.6 in under 30 minutes!" would quickly get the word out. God knows the x86 folks have sure helped the sales of dell and hp netbooks.
Psystar could now just be quietly selling computers instead of battling apple's lawyers in multiple courts.
Come to think of it, I need to look for a good 12" core 2 duo notebook. - JohnnySoftware, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1Palm-pre was shutdown because Apple simply checked the device ID and knew it was Palm's not theirs. Then, Palm violated USB rules and the USB guys read them the riot act.
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1I had a guy sitting next to me with 10.0 and he never mentioned any "hardware breakable" (whatever the heck that is). I've been using Mac OS X from 10.1 onward and haven't had the OS cause "hardware breakage" problems. Hardware breakage is a hardware flaw and needs to be fixed by the manufacturer. If yours is not working reliably, you should get an RMA and return it for repair/exchange right away. Other wise they might not fix it for free, when the warranty runs out.
- kreatre2007, on 11/06/2009, -0/+1You're still an idiot.
- eljitto, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1ya, but the Palm Pre was a workaround
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1The hacker guy is finally realizing he doesn't know what he is doing his street cred is rapidly dropping. How much practice has he had programming, anyway?
- kgerm, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1you guys should check out Plex then. best MC for osx.
it is ported from XBMC and is SL ready now.
its a pretty bad ass media center, way better then front row - JohnnySoftware, on 11/16/2009, -0/+1"not working", "working", "no wait, not working", "wait, will be working again in 'several' weeks" - clearly, somebody does not know what they are doing
nice to have a totally unreliably OS being fiddled on by some guy in his basement who takes longer to fix than it takes a real computer company to come out with updates -
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