OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support

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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[czychk]

Thanks for ugg bootsthis post. I have finally found the time to comment, because you raise a very good point for the open and transparent community you and may of us, your readers, aspire to adopt and be a part of. It is hard to feel hopeful at times.

Re:No biggie

[Huge_UID]

Mod parent up.

FIRSt

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re: Any other company?

[peragrin]

Palm is breaking all USB devices to make their one work. Mean while the motorola droid already has a third party app to give them full access with out breaking anything.

Msft stopped supporting non intel processors for 6 years until the xbox 360 came out. And if you mod that you can't access xbox live anymore. Also msft has never supported sparc therefore they are evil.

Apple provides support and software for a limited number of devices. They build itso thatthe hardware is less likely to crash. If you don't like it then don't use it. Any of it. You can't pickand choose which parts you want as it only works as one piece.