Russian Hacker Fixes Busted Atom Support on Snow Leopard Netbooks
Russian Hacker Fixes Busted Atom Support on Snow Leopard Netbooks
Posted 11/20/2009 at 7:04am
| by Paul Lilly
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In what's turning out to be a game of cat and mouse, Apple last week disabled support for Intel's Atom processor through a Snow Leopard update, a tactic the Hackintosh community insisted would present only a temporary setback. They were right, thanks to a Russian hacker known as "teateam," who says he has restored support for Atom-based Hackintoshes running Snow Leopard 10.6.2.
"The problem originates in a revision to the kernel in 10.6.2. The changes Apple made to the latest mach_kernel removes support for [Atom] processors, leaving updated netbooks in a useless state," InsanelyMac member "blkhockypro19" explained in a forum post.
TeaTeam's hack appears to address the issue, though Jeff Porten of MacWorld warned that performing the crack is not something to be taken lightly.
"You'll need to roll up your Terminal sleeves for a few simple steps here," said Porten. "And, of course, replace the kernel of your operating system -- the fundamental code that underlies everything else in Mac OS X -- with a file you've downloaded from the Internet."
Not only that, but it's only a matter of time until Apple releases another update that, in all likelihood, breaks support again. Apple hasn't been sympathetic to the Hackinstosh community, and even went so far as to serve Wired.com a cease and desist order after the tech site posted a video with instructions on how to hack a netbook to run Mac OS X.
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DasHellMutt
November 20, 2009 at 2:54pm
Apple are a bunch of facists. The thing is many of the people building or hacking together these machines are actually purchasing the OS thanks to Apple's decent pricing (take the hint here MS) but Apple still has an issue with it. They are determined to tell you what hardware you can run that software on and the market should hang them for it.
I, for one, actually like Apple's hardware. I just hate the price tag and the disaster of an OS they put on it. I'd love to have a high end Mac laptop running windows. They have THE best touchpad bar none. But the hardware and OS should be seperate. I should be able to install Windows without installing Mac OS or Bootcamp on their hardware. By the same token I should be able to run their OS on any hardware that can run it without any hacking or BS needed, provided I pay for it. If you spend the money its none of their business period, especially now that they are using standardized hardware.
Caboose
November 20, 2009 at 8:46am
You'd think that with the popularity of netbooks, Apple would be pleased with MacOS running on them and start full development for a Netbook compatible version. But, then again, this IS Apple we're talking about here. Unless they can rape you with their overpriced and underpowered hardware, they don't want your business.
Now I know there are those of you who are going to say "But Apple isn't getting ANY money for this! Bitch! Bitch Moan! Neep! Neep! noop..." while that may be true, the Hackintosh community proves to Apple that they need to open their doors more. They would have a much larger adoption rate (and many more security holes and problems discovered) and could actually be seen more than a piss-poor attempt at an Operating system.
Now bring on all the WIndows haters, rip apart my post and tell me how much more insecure Windows is, and how Microsoft is a company ruled by the devil himself and that the world would be better off if Microsoft was never formed and if Windows OS would just stop being produced!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
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