Snow Leopard Update Will Not Kill Hackintoshes

We said that we would have to wait for a final release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to be sure whether Apple had really killed off support for the Intel Atom processor, and we were right. Stellarolla, the hacker who first reported that a developers seed of the upcoming OS update would break compatibility with […]

We said that we would have to wait for a final release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 to be sure whether Apple had really killed off support for the Intel Atom processor, and we were right. Stellarolla, the hacker who first reported that a developers seed of the upcoming OS update would break compatibility with the netbook processor, has updated his original post.

A new seed (the name given to the successive updates given to developers before the final release) has re-enabled support for the Atom chip, meaning that hackers who have installed OS X Snow Leopard on hackintoshed netbooks should be safe to upgrade. This makes it look like it was simply a temporary change in he code. Either that or Apple is playing all sneaky to lure unwitting hackers into a trap and break their computers. Stella:

Anyways, in the latest development build Atom appears to have resurrected itself zombie style in 10C535. The Atom lives another day, but nothing is concrete until the final version of 10.6.2 is out.

So we will wait and see what the final release brings. Our guess is that the Atom-based hackintoshes will continue to work just fine, as these machines hardly cut into Apple’s sales: Anyone who hacks one together just to have a cheap Mac is unlikely to drop a grand on a real MacBook anyway, and I’d guess that most hackintoshers already have a Mac and are just doing it for fun.

10.6.2 kills Atom and other news: UPDATED [Stell’s Blog]

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