That’s right. In the next update to snow leopard Apple will no longer support the Intel Atom Processor. Which means…
Apple no longer has plans (if they ever did) to use that processor in any of their future releases. That’s right there will be no Apple Netbook, or Nettop.
and/or…
Apple is attempting to stop the spread of the hackint0sh netbooks. In cas you didn’t know it is somewhat trivial for the average techie to install OS X Snow leopard on a Atom netbook (or at least it was).
If the latter is the case, I suspect it won’t be long before the Hackint0sh community has a work around. Heck there are instructions out there for using AMD processors on hackint0shes and AMD has never been been supported by Apple.
So I’m sure it will just be a matter of time before one of the renegade EFI systems will be able to tell Snow Leopord that an Atom is a Core2duo processor. But in the mean time if you have one of these hacked netbooks (like I do) watch out for the 10.6.2 upgrade.
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