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Monday November 2, 2009
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Bad news for those running Snow Leopard on their netbooks--Apple is pulling another Palm Pre, cutting off the operating system's support for the Intel Atom processor.
OS X Daily has this to say about the 10.6.2 update,
StellaRolla recommends staying with 10.6.1 (or 10.5.8 if you're running Leopard on your Hackintosh, sine 10.5.9 will likely have the same Atom problems) for the time being, otherwise you can try upgrading to 10.6.2 but run an older or modified kernel. I think I'll just stick to 10.6.1 when the update rolls around, I have a lot of confidence in the Hackintosh community so I imagine there will be a workaround rather quickly.
So, why would Apple cut off support for a processor? Well, the company doesn't currently manufacturer any systems that use the Intel Atom. Like the Palm Pre/iTunes syncing issue and the suits against Psystar, this just seem to another way of ensuring that the company's software stays tied exclusively to its hardware.
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November 2, 2009 2:06 PM
@Brian Heater: Your poorly written comment ". . . this just seem to another way of ensuring that the company's software stays tied exclusively to its hardware" is nothing but a jab at Apple. Did you ever consider that perhaps Apple chooses not to support certain processors or hardware for a quality control reason (i.e., user experience on an Apple product)? If Apple was to try and support every processor and/or piece of hardware that Windows attempts, the Apple user experience would be as pathetic as the Windows user experience.
November 2, 2009 9:15 PM
@steve "Apple chooses not to support certain processors or hardware for quality control reason". when did Apple gave support for fans of the OS that wanted it in another hardware (not Apple's). Remember people installing it in another hardware DO LIKE the OS, so why cut them off if is not costing them nothing? Because Apple is NOT a software company, is a hardware company, they want you to buy their overpriced computers, not to use the OS.
"If Apple was to try and support every processor and/or piece of hardware that Windows attempts, The apple user experience would be as pathetic as the windows user experience".
Hmm... pathetic for you? or for whom? many people have great experience with Windows interface, software quality and quantity, choice of hardware, etc. Again that proves that Apple doesnt want people to know the mediocre OS they have (yes They have problems with 64 DRIVERS on their close ecosystem! and their "64 bit OS" runs as 32 bit OS by default).
No, those are not the reasons, they want to lock the OS to keep their overpriced hardware business running.