By Victor Goh | Published: November 7th, 2009
Sigh…
Looks like my announcement and joy was premature!
Intel Atom CPU support is not back in the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update according to Stell’s post Atom CPU, – Sir, your pants are on fire. Also reported in OSXDaily – Current 10.6.2 build does NOT support Intel Atom chip – Confirmed and Gizmodo – Latest Snow Leopard Developer Build Breaks Hackintosh Support… Again.
I give up. I’ll just wait and find out when the 10.6.2 update comes out.
Sigh…
By Victor Goh | Published: November 5th, 2009
Phew! I was glad to read this piece of good news this morning. Intel Atom support is back in the latest developer build (Build 10C535) of the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update. Also reported in AppleInsider – Latest Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom compatibility and MacRumors – Rumors of Disabled Intel Atom Support in Mac OS X 10.6.2 Unfounded?.
Of course, nothing is set in concrete until we get the release version of Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update into our hackintosh netbook. Let’s hope things stay this way and we don’t get a nasty surprise in the final release of the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update.
Please no nasty surprise. please….
Update: Looks like my joy was premature. Not they tell me the Intel Atom CPU is still not supported. I don’t know what to believe.
By Victor Goh | Published: October 29th, 2009
When Snow Leopard 10.6.2 comes out, don’t be so quick to Software Update your Intel Atom hackintosh. Apparently, Apple updated the Mac OS X kernel in the 10.6.2 update and it will kernel-panic a hackintosh with the Intel Atom CPU. Basically, Apple is attempting to stop people from installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard on netbooks with the Intel Atom CPU.
Kernel panic according to Apple:
A “kernel panic” may occur when the core (kernel) of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it does not handle properly. A kernel panic may also occur when the operating system is not able to recover from a different type of issue. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware.
So, be warned about doing a Software Update to Mac OS X 10.6.2 on your hackintosh laptop. You can look out for more info from the MyDellMini forum post – Intel Atom Support Removed in 10.6.2.
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