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Unofficial patch adds Intel Atom support to OS X 10.6.2

When Apple released OS X 10.6.2 last week, the company offer Mac users a number of bug fixes and security updates. Apple also broke support for Intel Atom processors. It’s not clear whether this was intentional or just a side effect of the fact that Apple doesn’t currently have any devices that use the CPU […]

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How to recover a hackintosh netbook killed by OS X 10.6.2 upgrade

As you may have heard, OS X 10.6.2 kills Atom powered netbooks dead. It’s not clear whether this was an intentional move by Apple to keep people from installing the operating system on netboks, or if it’s just a side effect of the fact that Apple has absolutely no reason to support the Atom chipset […]

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OS X 10.6.2 is out: Intel Atom support not included

Apple pushed out OS X 10.6.2 today, and while the latest Snow Leopard update fixes a whole slew of bugs, it introduces one major problem for netbook hackintosh builders: It doesn’t seem to work with the Intel Atom processor. It’s not clear whether Apple would have intentionally broken Atom support in this release to discourage […]