jkontherun.com - 11/3/2009
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What is the most definite way that Apple can convince the netbook crowd that there will never be a Mac netbook? By killing off support for the Intel Atom processor family, that powers virtually all netbooks. It is being reported that Apple is going to do just that, in the next version of Snow ...
engadget.com - 11/2/2009
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Nobody said running a netbook hackintosh would be
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hard. Apple is currently engaged in a war of compatibility with Palm and, if the developer build of Snow Leopard version 10.6.2 is any indication, the Atom ...
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nytimes.com - 11/4/2009
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Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York’s
attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo , filed a federal...
antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel , the world’s largest chip maker. The lawsuit charges that Intel violated state and federal laws by ...
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Mac OS X update will kill support for Atom CPUs, hackintoshed netbooks
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... update for its Mac OS. The latest update apparently removes support for Atom processors, which is instrumental for the OS to detect and then install.
Apple might be doing this to ward off OS piracy but there’s a speculation that it might be done because of an incoming Mac netbook. Take it as you want but for hackintoshers, this could mark an end to the thriving scene – unless hackintosh user uses Mac OS X up to 10.6.1 or some mastermind comes out with a workaround.
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OS X Atom Processor Support Revived (For Now) [jkOnTheRun]
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... The discovery that developer builds of OS X 10.6.2 had removed support for the Atom processor kicked off a storm on the web. On the surface it seemed that the only reason for Apple to remove the hardware support that was already in the OS was to kill off the “Hackintosh” projects. Those are the projects that have hardy souls ...
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