News Apple Atom support lives again

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/11/05/apple-atom-support-lives-again/1

Support for low-power Atom processors - at the heart of many a hackintosh - appears to be back in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2 - build 10C525.

 

From a purely financial standpoint putting it back in makes sense. More people willing to purchase the OS that way.

 

i don't understand why should apple support atom - i'm not aware of any apple product with atom cpu so what's this all about?

 

If they support Intel chips then supporting Atom would be part of that. Also perhaps they are planning a netbook of their own in the future?

 

Maybe the upcoming iTablet / iSlate will be atom powered.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/26/new-york-times-editor-refers-to-impending-apple-slate/
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/05/magazine-industry-already-preparing-for-possible-apple-tablet/

 

There's not supporting it (which is fair enough) and then there's deliberately sabotaging it.
I'm assuming that an OS just needs to know how to run X86 rather than every single X86 CPU type. If not every OS would need updating every time a new version of an X86 CPU was released. To stop a specific X86 working, it sounds like a deliberate act to me.

 

get a mac

 

I imagine it's the sort of thing that would be in the dev versions but taken out of the full releases.

 

meh, good news all round, shall resume my master plan to install hackint0sh on my netbook.

 

good luck with it mate been hackint0shing for a while and been very very happy and then i got mbpro.