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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."
Less support for CPUs not sold by Apple means less bloat in the Darwin XNU kernel, means more speed for us legitimate mac users.
Thumbs up, Apple. Our money were well spent.
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Exactly. One thing I love about my Debian laptop is: it just works.
It's really user friendly, at least according to my definition of "user friendly". You can see that thousands of man-years have gone into the development of the software that it runs. Decades of evolution have brought the shell, the GUI and the productivity apps close to the point of perfection.
It's based on a Unix-compatible kernel, so I get all the power of Unix in a portable machine.
It came loaded with hundreds of free, open source utilities. The great thing about Debian is, whatever you need to do, there's an app for that. There's this network of software repositories, like an "app store", all ready to download and seamlessly install. Tens of thousands of apps! All free!
The laptop is a Thinkpad; quite an expensive brand, but the costs are kept down by two things. Firstly, there are hundreds of competing manufacturers, thanks to the open market for PC compatible hardware. Secondly, all of the software is free as in beer as well as speech, so there is no "tax" to pay to Microsoft or any other monopolistic manufacturer of proprietary operating systems.
You're an immobile computer, remember?
That's a straw man argument ...
It doesn't matter what the users decided to do. If I buy a Porsche and want to drive it off road and break the thing that doesn't mean Porsche covers my lack of foresight with their bumper to bumper warranty.
And FWIW, claiming the OS is way more locked down than a video game console doesn't make sense to me. One is an operating system, based on a lot of open source, sold as a proprietary unit to be installed on proprietary hardware on which you may install other operating systems. That you can take this operating system and run it on other like hardware is not insignificant. A video game console is just a piece of hardware. I don't know of any efforts to get the XBox OS running on a MacBook Pro and call it a video game console.
No, Mac OS X is not targeted for x86, it is targeted for Apple hardware, and they have decided not to make machines that use the Intel Atom processor. Whether Intel wanted Atom to be 99.995% software compatible with other Intel processors used by Apple is irrelevant. Whether hackintosh users want to use Apple software on non-Apple hardware is irrelevant.
If Apple did this to be spiteful, they're within their rights to do so. If they did this because maintaining the difference in that 0.005% of the code that really does need to work differently for Atom vs non-Atom usage was a problem for them, that's also something that's up to them to decide.
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Apple makes money on Hardware and software as a bundle.
Hackintoshes threaten this money making opportunity.
If I've learned one thing in my years wasted here on slashdot, it's that people who hack things and grab stuff of torrents weren't going to buy the legitimate version in the first place, so there is no threat to the money making opportunity. If anything, a Hackintosh person might really learn to like OSX, then when they grow up and get big-boy jobs, they won't have a problem dropping $1200 on an Apple branded OSX computer.
Requirements: Mac computer with an Intel processor - 1GB of RAM - DVD drive for installation - 5GB of available disk space....
Your Porche analogy doesn't hold water. Porche doesn't require that you agree to a license to purchase their engine, Apple does. If you do not abide by that license, Apple can and should take all steps to prevent you from using their software in a manner contrary to their license. You may not like the concept of licensing software, but that is the reality in todays intellectual property world. Also, Apple has done nothing the version of OS X currently installed on your Atom rig. Preventing you from upgrading to their next version is not the same thing as "somehow change the engine AFTER purchase." And keep in mind, you didn't purchase the software, you purchased a license for the use of their software.... and if you attempt to break the license, you use of that license is no longer valid.
I read this article and proceeded to http://www.osx86project.org/ website to check it out - clicked on InsanelyMac button from my Windows XP browser (I.E. 7.0) and was the beneficiary of a virus attack - which ended up disabling my desktop. I can only boot to windows recovery and I can see seven .exe loaded on c:\. This is akin to throwing nails on the road and watching people get a flat tire - it must be illegal. Is there any government agency you can report this to?