OS X Daily is reporting that they have discovered Apple’s latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 disables support for the Intel Atom processor architecture. It is not known why Apple did this, but a good guess is to break user instillations of Snow Leopard on non-Apple Atom based netbooks. You can’t help but […]
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Apple to Disable Intel Atom Processor Support in 10.6.2?

Nov 3rd 2009 by

MC223.jpegOS X Daily is reporting that they have discovered Apple’s latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 disables support for the Intel Atom processor architecture. It is not known why Apple did this, but a good guess is to break user instillations of Snow Leopard on non-Apple Atom based netbooks.

You can’t help but suspect this move is Apple’s attempt at shutting down the growing and popular Hackintosh Netbook community, since Apple has no product line that runs the Atom itself. Mac OS X runs absolutely flawlessly on much of the PC Netbook hardware, once it’s configured you wouldn’t know you’re not on a Mac. Maybe it’s in effort to kill the Atom Hackintoh Netbooks in anticipation of the rumored Tablet? Or maybe it’s something totally unrelated?

Based on previous reports, Apple was originally interested in the Atom processors for it’s mythical- totally not proven to exist- tablet, but dropped support due to poor performance, and rampant battery consumption.

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