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Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All

Posted by timothy on from the If-you-like-that-sort-of-thing dept.

bonch writes "Contrary to previous reports, Atom chip support is working fine in the latest 10C535 build of OS X 10.6.2. Apple's EULA still states that OS X is licensed to run only on Apple hardware, but it looks like OSX86 hackers can breathe easy ... for now."

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  1. Re:Just a reminder from Apple by s73v3r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So does that mean we're gonna see a bunch of retractions from all the people in the other thread saying how evil Apple was for disabling support for a CPU they don't even use on their OS?

  2. Re:WOLF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because the previous testing build had it removed, and the current testing build has re-added it. That's not crying wolf, that's saying "Hey, that's odd", and then having it go away.

  3. Re:WOLF! by tlhIngan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Apple deliberately disabled Atom support. Due to bad PR, they reversed their position.

    According to this MacRumors article, the developer who complained about lack of Atom support was in Build 10C531 which was a week before Oct 27, when build 10C535 came out which works fine with Atom. The developer who complained about lack of Atom support posted his complaint a day before. We're at 10C540 now - which was released yesterday or today.

    So to release the complaint a day before Apple releases a new build? In the few hours it takes to pick it up, Apple would then have to see all the "bad PR" and have time to fix it before the next build? (I suspect most of the "bad PR" happened after 10C535 came out.

    At best, it would be they broke Atom support accidentally, at worst, some guy just couldn't update his Hackintosh properly.