electronista.com - 20 days ago
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Word that Apple had disabled Atom support in a Mac OS X 10.6.2 beta seed may have been premature, an update from the same discoverer says. A newer build, 10C535, now appears to have brought the feature back and hints that the lack of Atom support may have been a bug or an otherwise temporary ...
Apple Atom support lives again
bit-tech.net 19 days ago — Support for low-power Atom processors - at the heart of many a hackintosh - appears to be back in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 - build 10C525.
Apple releases Snow Leopard 10.6.2, breaks Atom support
techspot.com 14 days ago — Apple released the second security update to Mac OS X Snow Leopard today, bringing the operating system up to version 10.6.2. As you might expect, the release contains a number of feature enhancements and dozens of bug fixes, including one for that infamous glitch that was destroying people's ...
OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support —
Slashdot: Hardware
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 ...
Acer Timeline 14" 4810T Notebook Review —
TechSpot Reviews
With so many different factors to consider when purchasing a laptop, finding the right one can be a daunting task. Portability and battery life are the current trends, along with value of course, which has brought about the recent surge of netbooks. However as I've said before -- and I still ...
Acer Timeline 14" 4810T Notebook Review —
TechSpot
With so many different factors to consider when purchasing a laptop, finding the right one can be a daunting task. Portability and battery life are the current trends, along with value of course, which has brought about the recent surge of netbooks. However as I've said before -- and I still ...
Apple restores support for Atom CPUs —
DV Hardware
Last week news spread that Apple had killed support for Intel Atom CPUs to prevent people from creating Hackintosh netbooks, but DailyTech reports today that support for this chip has been restored in the latest developer build of Mac OS X:
Among those that first posted the news was ...
Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All —
Slashdot: Hardware
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." Read more of this story at ...
latest Snow Leopard build has Atom compatibility —
GamingHeaven.net
We reported a few days ago that Apple had ditched support for the Atom processor in their upcoming 10.6.2 OS update - however new details are filtering in that build 10C535 of update 10.6.2 retains Atom support after the previous build removed it.
Originally it was thought that Apple were ...
Apple to disable support for Intel Atom in next update —
DV Hardware
OS X Daily reports the Hackintosh netbook fun will soon be over as Apple's upcoming Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update has been confirmed to kill support for the Intel Atom processor.
You can't help but suspect this move is Apple's attempt at shutting down the growing and popular Hackintosh ...
Apple kicks Intel Atom into touch with new update —
GamingHeaven.net
Our insiders today told us that the forthcoming release of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system is set to disable support for Intels Atom processor.
Update 10.6.2 prevents Snow Leopard from running on any systems with an ATOM processor installed - we previously reported that Apple loathe ...
Snow Leopard redumps Intel's Atom —
The Register
As Apple zaps data-munching bug Now that Apple has released the final version of Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard into the wild, it appears that the shipping version does not support Intel's Atom processor after all.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps ...
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