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Apple OS X Update Gives Battery Boost to Hackintoshes
Wired: Gadget Lab — Here’s a rather odd little tidbit regarding Apple’s latest update to OS X. While it doesn’t bring many  new features to the Mac, consisting as it does of mostly bug-fixes, OS X 10.5.7 apparently gives a significant boost to battery-life on hackintoshes. Reports from the MSI Wind forums are claiming a boost up to 33%, ...

Reports: OS X 10.5.7 Improves Hackintosh Netbook Battery Life [Os X]
Gizmodo — ... upgrading to 10.5.7. Why would Apple care about power management on Atom-based hardware? Dunno! Of course, this could be a symptom of wider software optimizations or just a false alarm altogether. If it's true though, this is great news—aside from a few awkward interface difficulties, diminished battery life is (or was) the best argument against giving OS X a try on your netbook. Hackintoshers: comment if you've noticed anything like this. [MSI Wind Forums via Gadget Lab] ...

Hackint0sh netbooks seeing battery boost under OS X 10.5.7
SlashGear — Apple’s recently released 10.5.7 update for OS X seems to have backfired, with some MacBook users reporting sluggish performance and hardware issues, while owners of Hackint0sh netbooks have found their battery life much improved with the new software.  The change has led to suggestions that Apple is readying OS X for better power management on netbook-style hardware, such as might be used in a 10-inch Mac touchscreen tablet/UMPC. The change in runtime has been observed in the MSI Wind forums, where owners have found the Atom-based netbooks ideal for modification into unofficial Mac ...