Atom support now enabled by a hack in 10.6.2

Seth Weintraub
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November 19, 2009
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Yep, we knew this would happen.  Apple, for whatever reason (they didn't test it and don't care or they are trying to prevent Hackintosh) killed support for Atom in their latest 10.6.2 build.  

All of you cheap bastard Hackintoshers can rest easy though.  A Russian hacker was able to slap an old Atom-supporting OSX Kernel on the newer Mac OS 10.6.2 build and get it running on his little Atom netbook.  Depending on how much Apple cares, we'll probably see this shut down in 10.6.3.  Rinse. Repeat.

Comments (4)

9to5Mac Knob (not verified) | November 19, 2009 - 11:39pm

*yawns* I was running Tea's patch shortly after 10.6.2 came out. Had to be less than 24hrs after the update came out. Not to mention if you didn't wanna use that you could have used about 4-5 lines of code in the terminal to fix the problem too. Not really sure what's my point here.

 

First?

MikeP (not verified) | November 20, 2009 - 1:19am

"Apple, for whatever reason (they didn't test it and don't care or they are trying to prevent Hackintosh) killed support for Atom in their latest 10.6.2 build. "

 

They have done it to stop companies like Psystar from selling copies of OS X for netbooks. I doubt that Apple really cares about the few enthusiasts that run Hackintoshes.  It just doesn't want companies profiting from its intellectual property.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 20, 2009 - 3:37am

Better not to keep making this public because the workarounds will get harder and harder - those involved, who care and want this, already knew of the fix within a day

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | November 21, 2009 - 3:39pm

What again is this device shown in the picture above? Anyone knows if it is worth running Mac OS X on it? Is this machine worth doing anything at all?