Tag Archives: leopard

Snow Leopard Review Round-Up

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Steven Leckart

Awesome, yawn-worthy, or a bit of both? The bottom lines are in… Ed Baig at USA Today: Snow Leopard isn’t a must-have upgrade. There’s not much new in the sizzle department. Many feature enrichments are modest, such as the ability … Continue reading →

Power On Self Test: Leopard Skull

Posted on February 5, 2009 by John Brownlee

Image: Frederik Samuel

MSI Wind hacked to run Leopard

Posted on June 30, 2008 by John Brownlee

While endless Eee-caliber mini-notebooks tumble to market, most looking like tiny idiot clones of the iBook, the question remains when Apple will jump into the fray. The answer, for various reasons, is probably never, or optimistically “no time soon.” But … Continue reading →

Psystar announces Mac server clones, still not sued

Posted on June 23, 2008 by John Brownlee

Psystar — the zany hardware company that is openly giving the finger to Apple’s ToS (and their lawyers) by releasing the first Apple clones since Jobs put the kibosh on them in 1998 — have come out with another entry … Continue reading →

EFiX dongle promises easy OS X installation on any PC

Posted on June 13, 2008 by John Brownlee

The EFiX OS X dongle is promising an easy way to install Leopard on your PC: cram it into a free USB port, pop the Leopard install disc into your drive, reboot your PC, and it’ll take care of all … Continue reading →

Hacked OQO is the world’s smallest Mac

Posted on April 29, 2008 by John Brownlee

Over at the OQO Talk forums, neonatal member TRF’s initial claims to have successfully hacked his OQO to run OS X Leopard was met only with scorns and cries of hoax. But a couple of days later, TRF seems to … Continue reading →

Psystar OpenMac monstrosities run OS X

Posted on April 14, 2008 by John Brownlee

There’s a certain demographic of PC user — the sort of guy who likes digging in the intertwined morass of computer drivers and hardware like a neuro-surgeon, his hands pushed up to the elbows in the pulsating effluvia of a … Continue reading →

Giant OS X Icons from the Future

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Joel Johnson

Apple’s next iteration of OS X, Leopard, will may be (but probably will not be) the first major operating system that supports “resolution independence,” the ability to display the interface based on relative size, not simple pixel counts. By freeing … Continue reading →