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Apple’s iPad thrashes ASUS PC market.

by Sinha on August 17, 2010 · 0 comments

Since Apple launched iPad in the market, it seems the tablet size computer is posing loads of competition to other devices of such types. Easy to carry advantages is one of its secrets behind the increasing sales complemented with good services.

“ASUS (Eee PCs), Ceo Jerry Shen dropped his company’s netbook shipment estimates in the season to 1.4 million PCs, reportedly due to Apple’s tablet. ASUS now expects to ship between seven and eight million Eee PCs through all of 2010″

Electronista reports.

Apple has already outsold ASUS’ combined spring and summer shipments with 3.27 million iPads having shipped worldwide.

Will Apple continue its reign in near future or will stuck up?

We shall have your views on it.

Thanks, www.MacDailyNews.com

Atom can rock on with Mac OSX 10.6.2 kernel mod

by Renzo on November 22, 2009 · 0 comments

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With the latest Mac OSX update for Snow Leopard, v10.6.2, Intel Atom processors were no longer supported. This has consequences for a lot of Hackintoshers who installed Mac OSX on their netbooks using the hackintosh kernel-mod. But it took no longer than 2 weeks before the restrictive work of Apple was undone by a new hack of Mac OSX’s Darwin kernel.

The Mac OSX 10.6.2 Atom restriction came in the knowledge that Mac OSX shouldn’t normally run on Atom processors. So with the update Apple shut down netbook users from the latest Mac OSX update. Who updated his hackintosh installation to v10.6.2 was no longer able to boot.

But a russian hacker known as “tea” has released another upgrade of the 32-bits mach_kernel for Mac OSX 10.6.2 among the OSx86. This means that all owners of netbooks and nettops with an atom processor will once again enjoy their favorite hacked OS.

Hackintoshers can now download the new hacked kernel and get it up and running with some terminal work. Nothing for the normal home-user, but hackintosh users should manage to update without many problems.