Hide Your Netbooks: 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Update to Kill Atom CPU Support
If you've been drooling at the thought of a $300 Apple netbook by installing OS X onto a Dell Mini 10v or similarly compatible ultraportable, you may want to do it now--according to OS X Daily, there's a substantiated rumor that the next Snow Leopard update is going to lock out support for Atom processors.
If you already have a netbook running OS X, you should be good for a while by simply not updating, and hope that someone in the meantime figures out an easy way to mod the OS X kernel for future installs to reinstate Atom support.
It's rumored that locking out netbooks from future OS X installs is part of laying the groundwork for the release of Apple's long-hinted-at tablet netbook. But either way, if you were thinking about getting your Leopard on for cheap, you may want to hurry.
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Jeff on November 03, 2009 at 03:04 PM
Tell me again why anyone would want Apple to own their life?
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To avoid being constantly sick with Microsoft viruses.
Nicolas Chevallier on November 04, 2009 at 02:57 PM
Strange thing, why blocking Atom support?
Liam on November 06, 2009 at 01:37 PM
Disabling of the Atom Processor was only true in ONE beta release of 10.6.2
It is active in subsequent releases, your reporting needs to be corrected.
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