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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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