Comments on: To iPad or Hackintosh http://ariasfilms.com/blog/2010/02/03/to-ipad-or-hackintosh/ Hollywood native goes "Hollywood" Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim http://ariasfilms.com/blog/2010/02/03/to-ipad-or-hackintosh/comment-page-1/#comment-5943 Jim Sun, 09 May 2010 21:21:48 +0000 http://ariasfilms.com/blog/?p=2089#comment-5943 I second Mitchell's opinion. For sheer usability, a Hackintoshed Dell Mini 10v netbook can be a real workhorse, multitasking, peripherals.. great for school or college, throw it into a backpack, then fire it up and it just works.. If you drop it, lose, stolen, big deal. For $1000 less than an apple air book, it's a smart move, but one that would be frowned upon by Apple cult members... I second Mitchell’s opinion. For sheer usability, a Hackintoshed Dell Mini 10v netbook can be a real workhorse, multitasking, peripherals.. great for school or college, throw it into a backpack, then fire it up and it just works.. If you drop it, lose, stolen, big deal. For $1000 less than an apple air book, it’s a smart move, but one that would be frowned upon by Apple cult members…

]]> By: Mitchell http://ariasfilms.com/blog/2010/02/03/to-ipad-or-hackintosh/comment-page-1/#comment-4387 Mitchell Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:18:57 +0000 http://ariasfilms.com/blog/?p=2089#comment-4387 That's a great question. I, like most people, was very anxious to see what the Apple "tablet" was going to end up being. I was also sad that it ran the iPhone OS and not something like you said, more robust like OS X. Still, the iPhone OS is essentially the touch device embodiment of OS X. I guess if Apple already had such a wonderful OS built for their touch devices, they had no reason not to use it on the iPad. That said, I'm on the fence. I have owned a hackintosh netbook before, but sold it simply because I didn't need it. However I'm having regrets now. I really liked having the full Mac OS X on a tiny computer. It ran fast, but the only thing it didn't do great was play video. However I've seen videos on youtube of people hackintoshing a Dell Mini 10v, and all those seem to play video really nicely, as well has multi-task and handle bulky programs very fluidly. If you have an iPod touch or iPhone I would recommend not getting the iPad, because I think it might give you a feeling of having two devices that essentially can do the same thing, but one just has larger real-estate., The only real benefit to the iPad is the way that the programs are designed to take full advantage of it's screen size. Viewing web pages and reading documents will be a lot easier, since everything its the full size of the screen, and scrolling is more easy. I can tell you from experience, scrolling on netbooks is something you will not enjoy. You won't be able to see a lot of the web page, grabbing on to the slider with your small trackpad is not easy. You get really accustomed to using the up and down arrow keys. I don't know if they've enabled two finger scrolling on these devices under OS X, but that would be a huge advantage All in all, I still say Hackintosh. You can get a lot of support online from mydellmini and so on. You're really not putting your computer at any hardware risk by having OS X on it. With the iPad, you're getting a premium product form apple, but the device definitely has it's limitations. Don't expect apple to add flash ever, or ever allow multi-tasking on future OS update. I just don't see it. That’s a great question. I, like most people, was very anxious to see what the Apple “tablet” was going to end up being. I was also sad that it ran the iPhone OS and not something like you said, more robust like OS X. Still, the iPhone OS is essentially the touch device embodiment of OS X. I guess if Apple already had such a wonderful OS built for their touch devices, they had no reason not to use it on the iPad.

That said, I’m on the fence. I have owned a hackintosh netbook before, but sold it simply because I didn’t need it. However I’m having regrets now. I really liked having the full Mac OS X on a tiny computer. It ran fast, but the only thing it didn’t do great was play video. However I’ve seen videos on youtube of people hackintoshing a Dell Mini 10v, and all those seem to play video really nicely, as well has multi-task and handle bulky programs very fluidly.

If you have an iPod touch or iPhone I would recommend not getting the iPad, because I think it might give you a feeling of having two devices that essentially can do the same thing, but one just has larger real-estate., The only real benefit to the iPad is the way that the programs are designed to take full advantage of it’s screen size. Viewing web pages and reading documents will be a lot easier, since everything its the full size of the screen, and scrolling is more easy. I can tell you from experience, scrolling on netbooks is something you will not enjoy. You won’t be able to see a lot of the web page, grabbing on to the slider with your small trackpad is not easy. You get really accustomed to using the up and down arrow keys. I don’t know if they’ve enabled two finger scrolling on these devices under OS X, but that would be a huge advantage

All in all, I still say Hackintosh. You can get a lot of support online from mydellmini and so on. You’re really not putting your computer at any hardware risk by having OS X on it. With the iPad, you’re getting a premium product form apple, but the device definitely has it’s limitations. Don’t expect apple to add flash ever, or ever allow multi-tasking on future OS update. I just don’t see it.

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