10.6.2 kills Atom and other news

[furrbear]

From Wired's Gadget Lab:

Snow Leopard Update Blocks Intel Atom, Kills Hackintoshes

• By Charlie Sorrel
• November 2, 2009  | 

Mac OS X Leopard 10.6.2 will break your hackintosh. The forthcoming OS update will not run on the Intel Atom processor, a rather petty move from Apple which, if true, will break many netbooks which have been hacked to run as more than passable Macs.

This news comes from Stellarola, the hacker who helped us out extensively with the original (and still the best) Gadget Lab hackintosh. Here’s what he has to say:

In the current developer build of 10.6.2, Apple appears to have changed around a lot of CPU related information. One of the effects of this is Apple killing off Intel’s Atom chip.

The important word there is “current”. The latest seed could change before being released as an actual update. But Stella knows what he’s talking about (he’s one of the guys behind the OSx86 method for easily installing the Mac OS on non-Apple machines), and recommends keeping your frankenmacs loaded with 10.6.1 for now.

This wouldn’t surprise us, especially as Apple seems to have gotten a taste for locking out unauthorized hardware with the Palm Pre cat and mouse game.

10.6.2 kills Atom and other news [Stellarola via OS X Daily ]

Comments

What, no follow up?

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

This problem was reported by a single person. The next developer build of 10.6.2 works on Intel Atom. Makes me wonder if the first report was due to "operator error".

Also the quote "Apple seems to have gotten a taste for locking out unauthorized hardware with the Palm Pre" doesn't mention that the USB consortium has complained to Palm. Of course the USB group has no teeth. My opinion is that Palm should either negotiate with Apple or supply their own application like RIM (Blackberry) did.

Chuck