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OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hackintosh-smackintosh dept.

bonch writes "After apparently disabling and then re-enabling support for the Atom chipset in test builds of their 10.6.2 update, Apple has officially disabled support for the chipset in the final update. This makes it impossible for OSX86 users to run 10.6.2 on their Atom-based netbooks until a modified kernel shows up."

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  1. Re:Start complaining, "free" software people by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Wah... oh well, sooner or later people will look at the price of their preferred genuine Apple portable, divide it by the number of hours they spend hacking to keep things working every time there is a point update, subtract a bit for general annoyance, come up with a single-digit hourly figure, and if they have half a brain they'll just use Linux.

    Fixed that for you.

  2. Re:No biggie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Unless it's based on the presence of some other capabilities like SSE4.

    This is a stupid argument and you are a stupid person for making it because OSX is supported on computers without SSE4.

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  3. Re:No biggie by psergiu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OMG - Porsche changed the gearing of their new Engines and i can no longer install stolen Porsche engines on cheap Tata Nano car bodies.

    Porsche should be in court, at the wrong side of a lawsuit !

    Again: it's not about car vendor not supporting a certain type of gear sizes.

    It's about car vendors specifically using non-standard sizes to prevent the installation in a 3rd party car body that otherwise works just fine.

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  4. Re:Start complaining, "free" software people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh fucking diddums. So don't fucking buy Windows or OSX.

    What's that, you say, you don't? Bully for you -- I'm genuinely happy for you.

    What's that, you say, you're going to make another thousand posts on Slashdot bragging about how you can "debug all the way up to the kernel"? Give it up, no-one sane cares what you run on your computer or how, and won't care (or probably listen) to your desperate evangelising.

    What's that, you say, no-one on Slashdot is sane? I'm beginning to believe that might be the case.