Comments on: Tablet Mac: Mac OS X on the touchscreen Gigabyte M912X netbook

By: mervyn

mervyn — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:21:35 +0000

I was reading your notes, I found one. The name is http://www.euroffice.co.uk
product Code: 225458 £41.59ex Vat. I hope this is some help to you,
from mervphotography.

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By: levander

levander — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:27:33 +0000

Steve Jobs himself would not care that some guy did this in his basement. You guys sound like morons trying to play internet police from your computer chairs.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:50:20 +0000

Oxalic makes a decent point about this being a license, but licenses strike me as somewhat similar so the record companies telling us that burning a copy of a CD to our computer is the equivalent of walking into a Sam Goody and shoplifting. If there was monetary gain involved I would feel very different, and by all means I have no issues buying an Apple if that’s the type of computer I need… the OpenMac thing that went on awhile ago was exactly what I didn’t want to see come of the OSx86 project; Hackintoshes for monetary gain. Trust me, if Apple made a touchscreen laptop, I would be more inclined to get it because of stability and usability, something this video shows isn’t completely possible with this setup.

Anyway, awesome work, I might take a whack at this as well to see how well this would work in real world tests. The keyboard looks like it would do much better if you had it a little bigger, like half screen (iPhone-esque)… other than that, it looks like it would work perfectly for tablet work.

By: kelly hodgkins

kelly hodgkins — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:20:16 +0000

Thanks for the update! Nice work.

By: stulowe

stulowe — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 04:11:02 +0000

new video available at http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=THsN1mtSRgQ

By: web

web — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:25:36 +0000

looks pretty cool but i’d wait for a multi-touch enabled version and i’m not sure why he’s pretending to swipe with coverflow? you only have to hit the icon once with your cursor.

By: stulowe

stulowe — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:04:51 +0000

interesting comments, I own a number of legal copies of osx and don’t feel particularly like I pirated it to do this. apples eula does state not to install it on non-apple hardware but thats a little difficult to enforce and is a bit grey.

as for the last comment about not needing drivers on a kalyway 10.5.2 installation for the touchscreen. Yes, that is true, however using apples built in usb interface drivers there is no way to calibrate it and it drifts about 2 inches out of alignment when you move away from the central section of the screen. If you have the correct drivers then it works great to all the extremities.

By: agnostic

agnostic — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:34:17 +0000

Just because its not on a mac doesn’t mean he pirated it. I just did this same thing and I own a mac pro. Very narrow mind for a mac fan boy.
Wasn’t the mouse stolen from xerox?

I did this because I wanted a UMPC w/ touch screen. Not OSX, I just prefer it.

So did I steal anything, or is this like free RND.

Also the dude who’s video this is says you need compiled mac drivers.

Bu!!shit – Kalyway 10.5.2 touchscreen confirmed working.

By: suresh

suresh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:20:07 +0000

I would like to know if he/she is able to get the touchscreen working

By: hansning

hansning — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:24:53 +0000

@Robin Hood:

Odd that you are critical of thieves yet chose Robin Hood as your name.

By: Oxalic

Oxalic — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:03:37 +0000

You can stick your car engine wherever it pleases you, subject to local automotive regulations, because you own it.
However, you don’t “own” your OS (unless it’s Lixux et al). You have purchased a license. Your use of the licensed software is governed by the license.
Yes, I know. You don’t believe in that crap because you have a mentality of entitlement.

By: Mathue

Mathue — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:16:34 +0000

Your analogy if flawed. Software (OS) is not akin to an engine. Computer hardware is akin to an engine. The engine management software is akin to software (OS). I suppose you could use GM engine management software in the place of FoMoCo’s engine management software on a Ford, but why would one want to? Why not just buy the GM product and have the whole system as designed.

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:40:54 +0000

you guys are all wankers, if I buy a car should I not be able to swap out the engine into a different car, so if I buy Leopard shouldn’t I be able to install it on anything I want?

By: Robin Hood

Robin Hood — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:51:54 +0000

Yay! Let’s heap more praise on thieves. This guy’s greatest accomplishment is pirating Mac OS X. Tune in next time when we show how to use an iPod to avoid paying taxes.

By: rhetoric.assassin

rhetoric.assassin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:55:55 +0000

i would pay twice as much for a properly built system with the right software…

as a ui designer for over 12 years and is forced to use both windows and macs. my pcs and clients pcs are completely unreliable. I havent run across a dell that has some kind of cd burning issue. the only thing they even compare on the same level is when the power goes out, they both go out…

i would pay $1800 to make sure an apple OS runs on apple products, including the products built/designed by their new rapid prototyping plant.

my time is worth more than some silly IT wasting hours trying to reconfigure/figure out whats going on with my windows boxes..

hours wasted on a subpar OS, which is basically all windows packages, and i run mind VISTA, server 2003, and XP boxes all on my own network….

and guess what they are only testing machines, because i can not trust them. my apple print server (8 years old), my g4, my macbook, and my g5.

its a great attempt at futility to install a great OS on hardware ill equipped to run it..

By: rhetoric.assassin

rhetoric.assassin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:41:48 +0000

really…lame… when apples iTablet or whatever is called….

epic fail…looks like completely unusable. As a UI designer, if that is what it takes to run a multitouch interface on a dell, epic fail.

why dont you just wait till apple does it better… and you know they are working on because they have not announced anything… and that’s why we have to suffer thru half-ass attempts at taking a complete UI structure and in interface and applying it to sub-par hardware…

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:38:21 +0000

I dunno, it seems great but you could see he was having some troubles. A couple times he tried to hover over the dock with his finger and it just clicked on Finder for him. He also had a hell of a time trying to close the TextEdit window using the pen. Also, he had to open up the virtual keyboard to type in tablet mode. I could only see this being useful in Tablet Mode if someone wrote some software that captured the pen strokes as text input so you would have to hunt and peck with the pen on a virtual keyboard – I already can type faster than I can write, but I can definitely write faster than I can hunt and peck on a virtual keyboard.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:30:20 +0000

I think the music is fine, but some voice-over dialogue would have been nice. I would like to know how she/he got the touchscreen support working. Did it work out of the box, need any drivers, tweaks, etc.????

By: MaxPayne79

MaxPayne79 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:35:49 +0000

this is what i’ve been looking for since i got my 12″ powerbook in 2004. And no where…was this on anyones to-do list. Until now.
This is some awesome shit right here. A full touch screen apple powerbook. Finaly!!! I think….wait…yes, i think i’m happy. It may even be love…im not sure, but it feels great!
Thanx guys for posting this.

By: H.N.I.C.

H.N.I.C. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:33:34 +0000

is Apple paying attention, i really hope they are!

By: theOutsider

theOutsider — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:31:08 +0000

BTW…Guessing that “spaces” still work?

By: theOutsider

theOutsider — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:29:56 +0000

@ Jared…be glad you had to listen without sound. The music is the gayest shit since Richard Simmons.

That’s not bad. I would love to have a dual action mac…Touchscreen + standard controls. Sometimes it would just be easier to touch the screen, but still have to have the standard mouse and keyboard as well.

By: jared eldredge

jared eldredge — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:13:26 +0000

i have to wonder why the demo opted for an on-screen keyboard instead of using OSX native ‘Ink’?

was this explained in the audio? (i had to watch in silence as i’m at work).

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:25:37 +0000

No one cares about your 2 year old son.

By: Dtest54

Dtest54 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:17:13 +0000

lay off the caffeine or coke, Hey Ya.
this is pretty cool, not for me but its a good use of OSX.
the tropical elevator music was strange along with this guy’s reluctance to use his index finger.

By: Hey Ya

Hey Ya — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:55:01 +0000

HOLY SMOKES! MY KID IS ALWAYS TRYING TO USE MY LAPTOP AS A TOUCH SCREEN PC, HIS DREAMS COMING TRUE! BTW HE’LL BE 2 IN JAN. WOW!