i_am...me Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/...cworld-hardware Hmm. sounds a little worry-some. Will it pose as a problem to hackintoshes? I guess we will have to find out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flibblesan Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 No. Not for those running EFI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ... probably. We actually have no way of knowing. What if apple decided to introduce something that specifically targets PC-EFI? or dsmos.kext? I highly doubt they would, but we need to wait and see. Anyway, the 'big deal' about this update is supposedly the new intel compilers, which will generate more efficient and faster-executing code. ie 10.5.2 will be fast on intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Even with PC_EFI you need to patch one or few kexts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Yep, looks like we might be going back to the days of modified kernels (some of us never left those days). Way, way, way too early to determine, though. And this could be great news for us Mac users... Leopard, albeit great, has kinks to be worked out (and display drivers to be updated! :@) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Well, in past we were running our hacks with previous kexts, even now some are running Leo with some Tiger kexts, why worry now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I don't see how this update will target breaking Hackintoshes. In fact, I can't see why Apple would care about targeting us. Let's face it, every Hackintosh user out there is using it because they can't afford a Mac at the moment, and will most certainly be purchasing a Mac as their next computer. These are future Apple customers, I can't understand why Apple would want to {censored} them off. If anything, they would want to try and woo them over to the dark side, since they are already torn between the dark and light sides. Even then, it would be hard to break us. PC EFI only relies on one hacked kext (dsmos), and even if Apple did break that, there's an army of hackers out there living in their parent's basements just waiting to crack a new software protection scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant0ne Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I had to install 10.5.1 with Pacifist in order to keep my video working correctly, eventhough I am running PC EFI v8.0. I can imagine 10.5.2 would pose the same problem, so it shouldn't be anything new for me, and many others I'm sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrizz Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 GMA950 ftw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 in that case Geforce 8400Gx support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sponkemonke Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I'm sure the Mighty Netkas can make PC_EFI 8.1 work with 10.5.2. Anyways, I smell new graphic drivers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumford Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 every Hackintosh user out there is using it because they can't afford a Mac at the moment, and will most certainly be purchasing a Mac as their next computer. Not true. I rather have a Hackintosh than a Mac Pro, as the Mac Pro is as loud as a hairdryer and I want an absolutely silent computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Let's face it, every Hackintosh user out there is using it because they can't afford a Mac at the moment, and will most certainly be purchasing a Mac as their next computer. Or because Apple-Computers are: Overpriced. Underpowered. Un-expandable. Un-upgradeable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 you missed to say: un-friendly un-usable un-worthy they don't work more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I'm sure we'll be fine from this update. Like most people said, there are people out there who are willing to continue the progress of OSx86. And hey, even if it does break it we still have a fully working install of Tiger and early Leopard. -Stell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qbattersby Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Hey ya, I'm with stell, who cares and when it comes down to it, someone will eventually make it work so we can all have the latest and greatest once again. But hey faster intel support that would be stelllar! Woot! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwestpha Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Soo... they are fixing bugs, optimizing code with a new intel compiler (most likely adding SSE4 and more streamlined support for cross core communication), possibly adding back in a few things they had to leave out of the gold copy. In fact if they get all of the big problems everyone is having taken care of, this will be the soonest Apple will have made an OS X release stable after its RTM (ie tiger took until 10.4.3 or .4 depending on your hardware and uses). I still have to see how anything in the story shows its bad news to us. Heck, I am hopping one of those new kexts supports my mobo's nic in it so I can get back to gigabit speeds again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 you missed to say:un-friendly un-usable un-worthy they don't work more? I beg to differ. Some hackintoshes are nearly 100% compatible out of the box, and have more potential than any Apple computer. I've never really come by a half-assed Hack... the ones I've used are rock solid. However, They're not friendly. So, if you like to pay for your friends, buy a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apowerr Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 I beg to differ. Some hackintoshes are nearly 100% compatible out of the box, and have more potential than any Apple computer. I know I was talking about Apple Computers with my post. I think macgirl may have been as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtraa Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Will it pose as a problem to hackintoshes? No. Not for those running EFI. And that means yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 it will not break hackint0shes, vmware and parallesl works on leo virtualization, i know what way used parallels, and if it will be broken for us - broken for parallels, apple and parallels are sort of partners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Geez, another update so soon? Did Apple move it's software development to Redmond? What gives? I mean, isn't this what folks here criticize Microsoft for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fobis Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Geez, another update so soon? Did Apple move it's software development to Redmond? What gives? I mean, isn't this what folks here criticize Microsoft for? What does it matter? As long as Apple gets their sh*t fixed, I'm happy. Microsoft is... well... disliked because of their insane amount of updates that hardly fix any problems. Apple releases plenty of updates, sure, but it takes out a lot of bugs. And as a side note, 10.5.2 better fix tons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Geez, another update so soon? Did Apple move it's software development to Redmond? What gives? I mean, isn't this what folks here criticize Microsoft for? You don't seem to realize that a patch from microsoft is on average 160 days in the making... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fryke Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Microsoft has not released SP1 for Vista. Apple is working on the _second_ update to Leopard. If Apple were "being like Microsoft" here, they'd mention that an update was coming some day and then work on it for over a year before releasing a beta version or release candidate of it (?!) to the public. Apple's different here. They fix the problems and release the software in a timely fashion. Applauded by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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