Apple Flips the Finger at Hackintosh Community, Disables Atom Support
Apple Flips the Finger at Hackintosh Community, Disables Atom Support
Posted 11/10/2009 at 10:32am
| by Paul Lilly
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Rumors of an Atom ban turned out to be true, as the Hackintosh community found out with the latest update to Apple's Snow Leopard OS.
"Well, looks like I was right, again," Hackintosh guru StellaRola wrote in a blog post. "The netbook forums are now blowing up with problems of [Snow Leopard] 10.6.2 instant rebooting their Atom-based netbooks. My sources tell me that every time a netbook users installs 10.6.2 an Apple employee gets their wings."
While the ban presents a temporary setback, StellaRola reiterated that "this is OSx86 after all," and predicted that a modded kernel is likely just around the kernel.
In the meantime, a user on the MyDellMini forum claims to have found a workaround that entails running 10.6.2 with a 10.6.1 kernel. The process involved booting from a backup, mounting the 10.6.2 partition, and punching in a few commands, all of which you can read here.
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JDorfler
November 11, 2009 at 3:38am
Is it just me, or is Apple's tactics more restrictive than MSFT could ever think of being. Seems MSFT doesn't really care what device their products go on as long as you paid for your copy.
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Khaled
November 16, 2009 at 9:47pm
yeah, nothing bad about DRM if you called it windows genuine advantage. Don't change a motherboard or the MS police will deactivate your windows =)
skhills
November 11, 2009 at 8:39am
Anyone on the MPC team wanna kill this troller's account?
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eleck
November 10, 2009 at 2:38pm
i think its funny thay can still use windows on there macs but we cant use os x not that i use it but still -.-*....
XSV DBLs
November 10, 2009 at 12:46pm
Or maybe you should just screw using a Mac OS. Who needs snow leopard when you can get Windows 7?
Caboose
November 10, 2009 at 3:41pm
Windows 7 runs awesome on a netbook! I have a 1002HA I use at work for testing, and I loaded Windows 7 on it and it runs beautifully!!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Bender2000
November 10, 2009 at 12:38pm
Screw the netbooks, how about hacking one of those 15", $300 Asus laptops at Best Buy? Now that would be useful.
dj-anon
November 10, 2009 at 11:24am
Freedom will always find its way? Or at least hackers always do.
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