This Tablet Was Built for Making a Hackintosh
Better than an iPad?
The tablet from Apple runs iOS, not Mac OS X. Before the iPad's debut on stage earlier this year, however, many speculated that the tablet would be running Mac OS X as a competitor against Windows-based tablet-PCs.
The iPad does not have the functionality or features of the true-multitasking Mac OS X, and for fans of the desktop or even laptop experience, the official tablet may not be enough.
Enter Axon with its upcoming Haptic tablet. It's essentially a touch screen tablet with hardware very similar to netbooks that were friendly to hacked installs of Mac OS X – or Hackintoshes.
The hardware consists of:
- Intel Atom N270 processor (1.6GHz)
- 10.1-inch LED-backlit resistive touchscreen (1024x600) with stylus
- 2GB RAM
- 320GB hard drive
- 1.3MP webcam
- 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
- 3G CDMA-VErizon SIM slot
- Built-in speaker
- Three USB ports
- Mic, Ethernet, VGA ports
- Memory card reader
- Bluetooth
- Removable battery
According to CrunchGear, Axon went with a resistive touch screen due to Mac OS X not working as well with capacitive touch – and we're sure that cost is a factor too for this $750 device.
To be clear, Axon advertises that its Haptic tablet will run Windows, Linux and Darwin operating systems. That very Darwin, of course, refers to Mac OS X.
Axon writes on its very Apple-looking website:
"We give you the choice of easily choosing which OS you want to boot up to. Whether you want Linux one day, or Windows the next, Of course, we suspect that you'll be using Darwin the most. We've installed Darwin (kernel and system specific kexts) on a hidden EFI partition. That means you can effortlessly install your favorite Darwin OS, such as Pure Darwin. Just plug in the DVD drive (or Flash Drive), Install, then reboot. You are now working with one of the most secure and stable operating systems in the world. That EFI partition also means painless updates. Apple Inc.'s Snow Leopard is a Darwin OS, however the EULA specifically prohibits installation on a 'non-Apple-branded' computers."
For those who have always dreamed of having a Mac OS X-powered tablet, keep your eye on this one. We don't doubt that Apple is doing the same.
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Meh keep your crapintosh atleast i can use windows and admit it has issues but it works.
Is this a "clone" that Apple would have grounds to sue, or just a device that's easy to hack os-x onto?
how can it be a "clone" if Apple hasn't even made an Mac tablet yet?
Whether or not it can use mac os, I would use simply for its hardware specs, that thing is leaps and bounds more powerful than any current tablet...
I think a SSD is a must in a tablet, people like to abuse smaller computers and that drive spinning while someone whips it around spells HDD failure.
Approximate battery life?
No graphics accelerator? No thanks.
You know what would be great?
If Microsoft or Google made it to where you can install their phone OS "over" the iPhone. I mean, that was the difference between Microsoft and Apple back in the day. Apple took the path of owning and marketing the hardware and Microsoft took the path of owning and marketing just the OS, but you could put it on hardware of your choosing.
Make it like the jailbreakme.com website, you just go to the OS website, pay for the OS, then is just does a live install over your iPhone OS.
I'm still happy with a full sized desktop and my athlon x2 laptop, tablets are for people who only go facebooking and tweeting all the round,
people who actually buy these should just get a smartphone.............
or even better fund my next rig with the money they're gonna spend on these
Tablet for watching torrented TV shows
Tried it on a smartphone and even 4" is pathetically rubbish
I have a 10" digital photo frame that can play AVI's to test viewing and it seems to hit the sweetspot for me with viewing size, maybe an inch smaller I could get away with, same applies when viewing photos - being able to print is an absolute must.
In Appleland everything is a clone, wannabe, or attempt-at-killer of a present or future Apple product...
This is truely waste of resources! All this effort to hack OSX...whats the point?
This is truely waste of resources! All this effort to hack OSX...whats the point?
Because despite being a Windows user, I appreciate that some people prefer to use OSX but dont want to pay 2x the cost of comparable hardware
The only thing I like that Apple uses is EFI. I`m sick of bios.
Axom(singing):
We built this tablet, we built this tablet for makin a Hack-intosh!
Built this tablet, we built this tablet for makin a Hack-intosh!
Say you don't know me
well recognize my faceplate.
Say you don't care who Googles that kind of site.
Knee deep in the hoop-la
sinking in your fight.
Too many clones eating up the night.
Jobs plays the Dylan
listen to the 'Net radio.
Don't you remember?
We built this tablet
we built this tablet for makin' a Hack-intosh!
We built this tablet
we built this tablet for makin' a Hack-intosh!
Built this tablet
we built this tablet for makin' a Hack-intosh!.
Someone's always playing corporation games.
Who cares they're always changing corporation names.
We just want to dance here but Balmer stole the stage.
They call us irresponsible
write us off the page.
Jobs plays the Dylan
listen to the 'Net radio. . . .
It's just another Sunday in a tired old street.
The police have the choke hold
and we just lost the beat.
Who counts the money underneath the Genius bar?
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitar Heroes?
Don't tell us you need us
'cause we're the ship of fools
Looking for America
crawling through your Tubes.
Don't you remeber?
Jobs plays the Dylan
listen to the 'Net radio.
Don't you remember?
We built this tablet
we built this tablet for makin' a Hack-intosh!
We built this tablet
we built this tablet for makin' a Hack-intosh!
Wow, the tablet all the iPad haters were SURE the market really wanted. I'm sure they'll all be running out to buy one now, amirite?
Nice specs and I've definitely been looking to get a netbook or something to put OSX on but $750 is pretty expensive for a tablet. Think I'd spend the extra to get this over the iPad but I think it'd be more of a novelty for me..
Sorry no HDMI no sale. What were they thinking?
Nice specs and I've definitely been looking to get a netbook or something to put OSX on but $750 is pretty expensive for a tablet. Think I'd spend the extra to get this over the iPad but I think it'd be more of a novelty for me..
Why dont you just wait for a nice cheap Windows 7 tablet to come out, they you can tear it to bits and have dual boot - actually no! Quad-boot! With Windows, Android, Linux and OSX.
Apple "invented" it, some time ago wasn't there a politition that said he "invented" the net too
[citation][nom]irh_1974[/nom]Because despite being a Windows user, I appreciate that some people prefer to use OSX but dont want to pay 2x the cost of comparable hardware[/citation
But your only getting half the experience with all the problems of half bakes hardware!
For desktops, seeing as Macs use the same componants as PCs, have we any reason to believe that tablets will be any differant? If it is, for example, a really nice Sony tablet I seriously doubt it would be half baked.
Watch this space for a quad-booting Vaio-Pad.
A resistive 1366x768 13" is what I want in a tablet.
Wouldn't mind a hackintosh, though I imagine I'd stick with Windows.
It needs a miniHDMI/miniDVI/miniDP out though.
Does it use a 1.8" or 2.5" HDD?
I like Axon's very politically correct statement on their site. I wonder how their tech support you go if you're installing OSX on it.
"Yes, I can help you with that, but first let me remind you that Apple forbids you from doing this."
For desktops, seeing as Macs use the same componants as PCs, have we any reason to believe that tablets will be any differant? If it is, for example, a really nice Sony tablet I seriously doubt it would be half baked.Watch this space for a quad-booting Vaio-Pad.
We are not talk about a Sony product in this regard. Besides to argue that Apple is using basically the same parts as a generic PC is akin to saying Sony , Maingear, Alienware, Falcon etc... do too. But they get away with charging $2000 for a PC that Dell makes for $1200.
Besides Where can you buy a motherboard used by apple thats sold by New egg? Where can you find a case of the exact same? these are all custom made and designed by Apple. Yes the use chip sets, Processors, Ram, and Video cards like the PC's do. But none of the boutiqe type PC makers are truely different from the Dell's and HP's or what you may have put together yourself at 1/3 of the cost.
We are not talk about a Sony product in this regard. Besides to argue that Apple is using basically the same parts as a generic PC is akin to saying Sony , Maingear, Alienware, Falcon etc... do too. But they get away with charging $2000 for a PC that Dell makes for $1200. Besides Where can you buy a motherboard used by apple thats sold by New egg? Where can you find a case of the exact same? these are all custom made and designed by Apple. Yes the use chip sets, Processors, Ram, and Video cards like the PC's do. But none of the boutiqe type PC makers are truely different from the Dell's and HP's or what you may have put together yourself at 1/3 of the cost.
Fair play a case is custom but does nothing but add to looks, functionality is zero and there are plenty of cases available that look better than Apple. Motherboards are the same except for the customised bios/efi whose sole purpose is not performance increasing, but rather to enforce usage of OSX - which, by the way, doesn't work.
The above tablet is just an example, it is a brick and ugly as hell, but it is a caase in point to prove that it can be done and for that we salute you.
Does it use a 1.8" or 2.5" HDD?
We may very well find that the crop of tablets dont have FRU's for drives, so they dont have to have form-factored casings, to cut down on width. Maybe only RAM will be FRU's, but even then dont expect many options in the first couple of generations.
Fair play a case is custom but does nothing but add to looks, functionality is zero and there are plenty of cases available that look better than Apple. Motherboards are the same except for the customised bios/efi whose sole purpose is not performance increasing, but rather to enforce usage of OSX - which, by the way, doesn't work.The above tablet is just an example, it is a brick and ugly as hell, but it is a caase in point to prove that it can be done and for that we salute you.
We may very well find that the crop of tablets dont have FRU's for drives, so they dont have to have form-factored casings, to cut down on width. Maybe only RAM will be FRU's, but even then dont expect many options in the first couple of generations.
What you state is merely oppinion, nothing factucual.
The point is that Apple is truely unique regarding the overall design of the product when compaired to a generic Windows PC or a botique PC for that matter.
What you state is merely oppinion, nothing factucual.The point is that Apple is truely unique regarding the overall design of the product when compaired to a generic Windows PC or a botique PC for that matter.
Unique design from a strictly looks point of view of course, just so we understand that looks are totally subjective and cant be benchmarked. That way people get to say "well I like it even if you dont" and therefore opinion also.
as far as using the same hardware apart from a restrictive EFI that is pure fact.
Unique design from a strictly looks point of view of course, just so we understand that looks are totally subjective and cant be benchmarked. That way people get to say "well I like it even if you dont" and therefore opinion also.as far as using the same hardware apart from a restrictive EFI that is pure fact.
Negative!!....Apple used EFI because it does basic hardware initialization and selects which operating system to use. Had nothing to do with preventing OSX being used on generic PC hardware.
Before Apple switched to EFI Open firmware witch for all intents and purposes does the samething as EFI and programing for EFI was easy vs reprograming for BIOS.
This is another reason apple went with EFI.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/H [...] D2A4F.html
Negative!!....Apple used EFI because it does basic hardware initialization and selects which operating system to use. Had nothing to do with preventing OSX being used on generic PC hardware. Before Apple switched to EFI Open firmware witch for all intents and purposes does the samething as EFI and programing for EFI was easy vs reprograming for BIOS.
Well, EFI, BIOS or whatever, Apple has placed a barrier to using OSX on hardware other than Apples own. Which, by the way, still doesn't stop people doing it themselves, it only stops People selling it pre-done. just like Pststar. No one likes getting sued.
So what are the 2 reasons people use Macs?
1) They like the OS
2) They like the design
Design is subjective and now OS can go anywhere if you put in a bit of effort.