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Apple apparently does quietly tolerate or ignore it, mainstream users wouldn't have the patience or inclination to hack pc hardware to run an unsupported OS. Those that do, the numbers aren't significant enough to be a concern. iPhones, different story, hacked and unlocked iPhones number in the millions, but a few tens of thousands of pc buyers installing Apple OS and software is perhaps annoying, but less threatening.
However, it's silly to pretend Apple unofficially appreciates or welcomes it, because it means they sell more retail copies of Leopard. That's nonsense. Apple's benign tolerance may be temporary. If the numbers got into the millions, Apple's defensive or offensive position would change, you bet.
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richorlin wrote:
The Dell Mini 9 is a good investment for a knock-around traveling laptop. I'm going to San Francisco next month for a week and I was hesitant to take my six month old Macbook. I recently got a Dell Mini 9 and put Leopard on it. I have no qualms about taking it with me and throwing it in my carry-on bag. Last time I travelled, I had a roll-on bag AND my laptop bag. This time - one small backpack.
By the way, the battery life is amazing for a four cell battery. I get almost four hours of wireless browsing. Tonight it had a full charge and it showed 5 hours 20 minutes when I pulled the a/c.
How did you manage that kind of battery life?? Mine consistently is at about 2:58 when I pull the plug.
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I would have paid double the price of the dell mini 9 for an apple branded version. I personally don't see apple entering the market for less than $800 though so I took the plunge. I give the mini 9's to the kids in two weeks and I will report back as to how they take to them.
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Same here, I'm not getting anywhere near 5+ hours battery, closer to 3+. And real world tests, I've not used and run the battery all the way down and timed it, but I'm guessing it's standard, not much different than what's to be expected from portables these days.
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I haven't done any real world tests yet. I'll calibrate the battery and try one this weekend and report back. My guess is that it's actually closer the three hours.
Actually, I doubt if "calibrating the battery" really works on these cheap batteries the way it works on Macs.
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Three hours of battery life is all I can get out of mine, regardless of what Power management tells me.
Sometimes it reads 3:45 of time on a full charge but it's never lasted that long.
