Another reason Aplle rules!

[arsenal]

Originally posted by photon@Oct 27 2004, 02:20 PM
Oh for the day when OSX is released on the x86 platform!

*weeps softly*

Wont happen. Unfortunately.

[BlackArcher101]

Can someone tell me what the battery life of an Ipod is?

[photon]

Apparently the new iPhoto one has a battery life of 15 up to hours.

The regular iPods are 12 hours, and the mini is 8 hours.

[arsenal]

Did a quick search, and found that there is a group (rather large) of people developing an OS X clone that runs (sort of) on x86 chips.

It is called Darwin, and is somewhat supported by Apple:
opendarwin.org site

I also read this in the in readme.txt file:
Known Issues
============

* IDE drives may not work on x86. Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a
known problem.

* The booter wont automatically use the OpenDarwin disk as the root disk. You have to
pass the "rd=" parameter to the kernel. On a lot of installs the parameter to be passed
is: rd=disk0s1
However this depends on your local setup. Once booted you can hardwire this kernel argument
in the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

* Video cards must support VESA 2.0 framebuffer modes on x86.
Try it, if your console looks weird, or doesn't appear, it's a
known problem.


Might be something I would be willing to try when I get some time. Looks like an interesting project. I would love to run OS X on x86.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally posted by photon@Oct 27 2004, 05:16 PM
Apparently the new iPhoto one has a battery life of 15 up to hours.

The regular iPods are 12 hours, and the mini is 8 hours.

Interesting, I thought they would be a lot less. Well, there goes my only excuse for not getting one, besides the cost that is.

Are they solid state memory then? Or is it like a typical laptop style hard drive? I'd imagine solid state if the battery life is that high.

[octothorp]

Originally posted by BlackArcher101+Oct 27 2004, 02:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BlackArcher101 @ Oct 27 2004, 02:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-photon@Oct 27 2004, 05:16 PM
Apparently the new iPhoto one has a battery life of 15 up to hours.

The regular iPods are 12 hours, and the mini is 8 hours.

Interesting, I thought they would be a lot less. Well, there goes my only excuse for not getting one, besides the cost that is.

Are they solid state memory then? Or is it like a typical laptop style hard drive? I'd imagine solid state if the battery life is that high. [/b][/quote]
No, I believe it's still a disk drive, with 32 MB (might be 64 in new versions) of solid-state memory.

[photon]

Originally posted by BlackArcher101@Oct 27 2004, 03:46 PM
Interesting, I thought they would be a lot less. Well, there goes my only excuse for not getting one, besides the cost that is.

Are they solid state memory then? Or is it like a typical laptop style hard drive? I'd imagine solid state if the battery life is that high.

The older versions had less, I think it used to be as low as six or eight hours. 12 hours is for the latest generation.

I think you can get replacement batteries for older ones that have a higher mAh rating for longer life too.

EDIT: And yeah, oct is right they're all hard drive based still. If you've never seen an iPod mini go to FS or something and check it out, it's pretty amazing.