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New Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support
New Mac OS X 10.6.2 build restores Atom support
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 have been a bug or an otherwise temporary ...
Hackintosh Netbook users take note: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update kills support for Atom Processor
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 ... (more) Hackintosh Netbook users take note: Snow Leopard 10.6.2 ...
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update Released. Intel Atom Support Officially Missing, breaks Hackintosh Netbooks
Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update Released. Intel Atom Support Officially Missing, breaks Hackintosh Netbooks
osxdaily.com — Mac OS X 10.6.2 has been released, for most Mac users this is great news because it... fixes over 40 problems and bugs, including the rare but very problematic user account deletion bug. If you have an official Apple Mac then go right ahead and update to ... (more) Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update Released. Intel Atom Support ...
OSX 10.6.2 (Vanilla Kernel) on Atom (MSI Wind U100) is a no go (video)
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OSX 10.6.2 (Vanilla Kernel) on Atom (MSI Wind U100) is a no go (video)
youtube.com — Bam , all it does is restarts. currently the beta kernel doesn't support Atom processors anymore. I... guess Apple must have removed the IDs for Atom CPU suppor... (more) OSX 10.6.2 (Vanilla Kernel) on Atom (MSI Wind U100) is a ...
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Apple’s latest Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom support
MacDailyNews — ... the feature back and hints that the lack of Atom support may have been a bug or an otherwise temporary action," Electronista reports. "Apple's code doesn't have any immediate clues as to whether or not the move was intentional." Electronista reports, "Apple is known to regularly allow at least basic support of processors outside of those used in Macs but often doesn't provide full feature support or any guarantees that this support will persist." Read more in the full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "TheConfuzed1" for the heads up.] ...

Perhaps Apple won't block Atom support after all
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... Shortly after that report was published, Electronista noted that a newly-released build of 10.6.2 (10C535) brought it back. Of course, we're talking about "support" for hackintoshes in a developer build of the OS, so keep that in mind. ...

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Update: OS 10.6.2 now working on Atom processors
9to5mac.com 28 days ago — 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 ...
Latest Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom compatibilityAppleInsider
Development build 10C535 of Snow Leopard update 10.6.2 retains Intel Atom support after previous build had killed compatibility with the processor.