ToughMac Tablet PC

[wassimshomali]

very cool

[VJR021]

We didn't see your keyboard or trackpad working, but WOW... Congrats... looks like a dream machine

[NoFatGamer]

Mac is the worst operating system, but awesome for tablets. I hate windows on tablets its annoying.

[canadasarmy]

How did you get the screen to work? My CF-19 only works with an external display and the trackpad doesnt work.

What fix did you use for your toughbook?

Thanks in advance!

[bishopdante]

the toughbook running OSX. That's really not normal! You should put out a distro of that. Or some sort of package & manual.

That's the only laptop I'd have over the apple-made ones, seriously good stuff. Waterproof.

If apple made a rugged pro laptop, that'd probably be good.

[zomopopo]

hi everybody!

anyone knows what model of toughbook is, what distribution of hackintosh he installed and if all peripherals works fine?

thank you in advance for any answer!

[axmasta]

WOW

That must not be OS X out of the box, you've created the dream pen interface for a fully functioning OS.

Dragging, dropping, and most importantly hovering over the dock without having to sacrifice click functionality.

Damn.

[vitaliy325]

Hello, I have cf-29, and would like to do same thing to it it is touch screen, but without digitizer, is there any information available, maybe you have some blog or webpage with it, it would be greatly apreciated.

Thank you.

Vitaliy

[camdaddy09]

could you tell us how you did this?

[knipdlo]

i have a CF-T8 Toughbook I would like to do this to- do you have any resources you can point me to? Or tips?

Thanks!

[mahdidi96]

R u selling this?

[guitarz86]

wow man great work, amazing!

[mctx5303]

FAKE

[joshua25071994]

SILLY!

[JakBoy370]

i wanna fart on miley cyrus

[rol9408]

i wana do miley cyrus

[snakenetadmin]

Long live OSx86.

I have an Acer Travelmate running Leopard

[xXSpecter93Xx]

it is beautiful. more beautiful them my macbook air. that think owns royaly

[mnoed]

Its like a GINORMOUS DS, lol!

[SaltWaterHippo]

How is the battery life?

[patrick230]

very nice,good work.

[emacspy]

toughmacpro: how did you calibrate the touchscreen? Any help is greatly appreciated!

[kmare]

whats the tune playing?

[iforgotaboutit]

That is epic.

[mynameisnicholas]

What exactly do you do for a living!? I'm in college... and I'd love to have a job in that kind of an environment. Great video too!

[Legolover64]

Do you ever have to calibrate the screen?

Cool video!

[amerist]

Panasonic has some REALLY nice looking lightweight toughbooks out now. (H1 for example)

I've been using my iphone to compose emails so much I find myself hitting spacebar twice on the mac and expecting a period to appear at the end of my sentence.

[toughmacpro]

Um. I'm not sure how you think this is fake. I use the machine every day.

But thank you for the mature response. :)

[benrybisky]

NOT FAKE!

[benrybisky]

Awesoome idea! But I wouldn't recommend Mac OS. It's slow and it crashes. Use Linux. It is fully customizable, so you can make it LOOK like a Mac but it won't be. Remember, LINUX!!!!

[toughmacpro]

I use LINUX on almost all of my machines at work and at home. There are a lot of tools under OSX that I cannot duplicate under Linux. So this is my compromise. The laptop also boots Backtrack and Ubuntu on a very regular basis off of USB disk to RAM disk and does very well.

[digitallysick]

kick ass, i run osx86 on several computers, but this is amazing im shocked at just how well it works with the pen input

[chyidean]

Apple will never come up with a rugged notebook, and let me tell you why.

He will never authorize the production of something that has a rugged build. Take a look at the entire Mac line, aesthetics is clearly a very important factor that Apple highly values. Hell, he just shifted from a one-button trackpad (as opposed to a two button trackpad) to NO buttons on the newest Macbook line. On the Macbook Air, there are simply three ports that are hidden with a latch.

[chyidean]

When I said "he", I meant Steve.

[mynameisnicholas]

who knows... what if they come out with the sexiest Toughbook around?

[mynameisnicholas]

It's awesome that you can do this

but apple doesn't support other hardware because they want an all-in-one package, with minimal conflicts

Palm, for example, admitted that they should have followed the same route instead of allowing access to develop software...

I may be wrong, but that's just my understanding...

[hdids]

the mac os is designed to work well with the computers that apple makes, I'm curious how the ported version of os performs on an machine that it wasn't intended for.

[mynameisnicholas]

I can now confirm that os x Tiger 10.4.8 runs absolutely wonderfully on an hp pavillion 750n.

[shadowsmirk]

I just got a toughbook. How hard was is to install OS X on it?

[meteparozzi]

So what was the hardware you were using...?

[benrybisky]

I am not the maker of this video, but I happen to know that If you have a CD drive in the toughbook, and $40.00 to spend, it is as easy to install as typing the word "a". Just put the disk in the drive and hit "Install."

[toughmacpro]

It does not have an internal DVD drive due to the waterproofing. It does take quite a bit of customization to get the OS working correctly. I have over 100 hours of driver hacking and configuration on this laptop.

Compared to Linux, I know that this is insane. I just like the challenge. :)

[ecuguru]

So people who want to buy an Apple Mac can, and people like me who want a tablet / ruggedized mac can buy one of these. Win Win for all if Steve would get his head out of his Socket.

Video rocked, nice groove. I'd buy one today as I work in similar environments.

[natalie110277]

blown away...awesome video

[kevnca]

Steve is known to be surprising but opening up the OS will dilute the Mac brand. It's the combination of software and hardware that makes a Mac an Apple. Sounds like BS but it's true.

[vincmo]

Well, from what I know, Apple isn't offering these tablet based products that a lot of us need. We don't have any other choices but to customize ourselves Mac OS based tablets until Apple respond to this need. In the meantime, great job toughmacpro!