9to5mac.com - 11/4/2009
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Last week, there was a bit of a fuss made over prominent Hackintosher Stell's contention that new 10.6.2 beta builds were killing support for Atom chips. It appears that fears of the loss of Atom's support were unfounded because the latest developer build (10C535) re-enables support for ...
osxdaily.com - 11/2/2009
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osxdaily.com —
It’s not out in the wild yet, but
10.6.2 has been confirmed to kill support for the...
Intel Atom processor, this is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard. So what should you do if ...
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Hackintosh Netbook users take note: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 ...
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electronista.com - 11/4/2009
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electronista.com —
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 ...
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New Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support
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No worries, OS 10.6.2 does not kill Atom support
CrunchGear —
... , nothing is official until the final of version of the update is release, but it doesn’t look like Apple’s out to get the modders – yet. [via 9to5Mac] ...
OS X 10.6.2 Does Not Ditch Atom Support, Hackintosh Safe [Hackintosh]
Gizmodo —
It appears that Atom support has resurfaced in the latest developer build (10C535), so users running OS X on Atom netbooks are safe, for now. Although, anything can happen between now and the final build. [Stell via 9to5Mac via Crunchgear]
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OS X Atom Processor Support Revived (For Now)
jkOnTheRun —
... Word has surfaced that the current beta build (10C535) of 10.6.2 has regained support for Atom processors. Whether this is due to the reaction to its removal, or to fixing an accidental removal we will likely never know. Of course, until 10.6.2 is finalized, we’ll have to wait and see if the Atom support stays. ...
En fait, OS X 10.6.2 aime Atom…
Le Journal du Geek —
Enfin, pour le moment. En fait, contrairement à ce que nous vous avions annoncé l’autre jour, la mise à jour 10.6.2 pourrait conserver la compatibilité avec les processeurs Atom. Le dernier build en date de la nouvelle version (le 10C535) accepte pour le moment les processeurs en question.
Reste qu’on est jamais à l’abri d’une modif’ d’Apple de dernière minute…
via 9to5mac
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