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Apple Flips the Finger at Hackintosh Community, Disables Atom Support

Posted 11/10/09 at 12:32:49 PM  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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TAGS: intel, operating system, Software, mobile, apple, cpu, processor, OS, hardware, atom, netbook, Hackintosh, snow leopard
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avatarHm, back to linux on netbooks

Submitted by Khaled on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:46pm

Hm, back to linux on netbooks

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avatarApple, the Nazi Fruit!

Submitted by JDorfler on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 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.

Sager NP5797 (Clevo)

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avataryeah, nothing bad about DRM

Submitted by Khaled on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 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 =)

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avatarAnyone on the MPC team wanna

Submitted by skhills on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 8:39am

Anyone on the MPC team wanna kill this troller's account?

 Thanks

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avatari think its funny thay can

Submitted by eleck on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 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 -.-*....

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avatarOr...

Submitted by XSV DBLs on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 12:46pm

Or maybe you should just screw using a Mac OS.  Who needs snow leopard when you can get Windows 7?

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avatarWindows 7 runs awesome on a

Submitted by Caboose on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 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! =-

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avatarWasting time

Submitted by Bender2000 on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 12:38pm

Screw the netbooks, how about hacking one of those 15", $300 Asus laptops at Best Buy? Now that would be useful.

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avatarFreedom will always find its

Submitted by dj-anon on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 11:24am

Freedom will always find its way? Or at least hackers always do.

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