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Realtek's Wireless Driver Drives Thoughts of an Apple Netbook
Slatterz writes "With Macworld 2009 mere weeks away, one rumour that seemingly won't die is the idea of a Mac OS X Netbook PC. Asking a company to provide OS X drivers for their netbooks has, up until now, been met with silence, and probably a little quaking on the vendor side as they wait for the heavy footsteps of Apple's army of lawyers. It seems, however, that Realtek, who provide the WiFi chip found in the MSI Wind U100, are dipping their toes into the legally iffy world of the Hackintosh. Forum users at MSIWind.Net asked politely for drivers, and after a lot of patience,
Beta drivers were provided."
802.11N is not finished yet. Stop buying draft N hardware. You're ruining the standard.
This kind of thing is SO not worth it.
Just like supporting Teh Lunix with drivers, providing Apple drivers will neither increase customer satisfaction nor sell more units.
Apple and Lunix users are a small but disproportionately vocal user base. Teh Lunix support will, statistically, only increase sales perhaps 2%... and it's an acquisition of a very whiny and ungrateful customer base at that.
Apple users would be a bit better... but it still gains you nothing. For the tiny perhaps 2% increase in customers (and wildly generous to even estimate that), you are buying yourself a lawsuit with Apple... an extremely litigious and brutal monopoly. The potential units sold aren't even going to come close to the cost of the lawsuit.
Right now. I tried, a BSD box that you loved that 3odebase became Wash oof hands
Just to clarify: you want to be a twitter sock puppet. The idea of twitter shoving his hand up your asshole turns you on. You want a dude to fist your asshole. Just to be clear.