Snow Leopard Update to Kill Atom Processor Support

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Posted November 2, 2009 at 9:52am by iClarified

Apple may remove support for the Intel Atom processor from its upcoming Snow Leopard 10.6.2 release.

According to OS X Daily, Hackintosh users who run OS X on their netbook will need to hold off before upgrading. They have confirmed that 10.6.2 kills support for the netbook processor.

You can’t help but suspect this move is Apple’s attempt at shutting down the growing and popular Hackintosh Netbook community, since Apple has no product line that runs the Atom itself. Mac OS X runs absolutely flawlessly on much of the PC Netbook hardware, once it’s configured you wouldn’t know you’re not on a Mac. Maybe it’s in effort to kill the Atom Hackintosh Netbooks in anticipation of the rumored Tablet?

Another alternative would be to upgrade to 10.6.2 and use either the stock 10.0.0 kernel or use modded Snow kernels. It is likely that the hackintosh community will provide a workaround shortly after the operating system is updated.

[OS X Daily] [StellaRola]

Snow Leopard Update to Kill Atom Processor Support

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DNA64 - November 2, 2009 at 12:37pm

wow, took them long enough :P No big deal as the post mentions there are workarounds.

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Jeff - November 2, 2009 at 10:33am

I've been trying to get OSX on a Dell XPS M-1330 here since I'd gotten it about a year ago. Never any luck doing it, so I'm looking at a Macbook Pro to just Replace it. I thought a PC in here might be a "Good" thing, but I need to carry it and need OSX,Vista & Ubuntu all on Machines for different reasons. I can't get OSX to load on the Dell.. HOPE all the Hacintosh folks get something more universal?.. GL all..