MacNewsWorld Talkback

Re: The Netbook OS Enigma
Posted by: Tim Conneally 2009-11-12 10:00:47

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On Monday, Apple rolled out the 10.6.2 update to its Snow Leopard operating system, which concentrated mostly on general bug fixes and stability issues as well as some issues in Mail, MobileMe and Safari. In all, there are more than 100 improvements, and more than 40 security-related fixes. However, the big talk today is that this update officially terminates support for Intel's Atom processor family. These low-cost, low-power processors have become the standard in many nettops, netbooks, MIDs, and ultraportables.

Apple and netbooks
Posted by: bmig2 2009-11-12 15:33:32 In reply to: Tim Conneally

Didn't Apple have a "netbook" years ago called the eMate? I know they were for educational purposes (my sister used them in her classroom), but they were ultra-portable Macs. Maybe they could be updated and released!

Win 7 on Atom (netbooks)
Posted by: akcoyote 2009-11-12 10:04:16 In reply to: Tim Conneally

Has anyone tried installing Win7 Business Edition on their Atom netbook?