Don’t have a cow, man! OS X 10.6.2 supports Atom [again]
With incidents like this, you’ve gotta wonder if Apple’s just testing to see if we’re 1.) paying attention and 2.) actually care. In this particular case, we don’t know what if any purpose Cupertino had in removing and returning support for the processors used in most netbooks, but folks were definitely paying attention.
Stellarola, the same Web site which helped ignite the whole Atom on OS X is dead firestorm, now reports that support for the diminutive, low-power netbook processors can again be found in OS X 10.6.2. The latest build [10C535] is once again netbook friendly and here’s screen cap showing just that.
Source: Gizmodo
Wow, didn’t expect to get linked all over the Internet for this damn post. 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. — Stellarola
Of course, nothing’s certain until Apple actually ships OS X 10.6.2 and, for my money, I’m betting this little incident was just a forewarning that netbooks run Snow Leopard or any other Apple operating system at the complete discretion of Cupertino.
The next time this issue comes up might mean the end for hackintosh netbooks…
What’s your take?
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November 5th, 2009
I have to wonder at the arrogance of the hackers. Apple owes them nothing. This is especially so, when the hackers violate Apple’s EULA to install Mac OSX on non Apple hardware.
When Apple acts, temporarily or permanently, to restrict the Mac OS to processor chips which it uses, who’s rights are violated? No body’s. Certainly not hackers who have no rights.
Buying an installation DVD does not give anyone total rights to the intellectual property on that disk. Nor does it give anyone the right to change the information on the disk. Apple owns the data, not the hackers.
What the hackers are complaining about is that power, not rights, are being taken away. The hackers had the DVD in their possession and they could fiddle with it until they could overcome the protections placed on it. The owner of the data couldn’t even know that their rights were being violated. The hackers complain fraudulently when Apple invents ways to remove that power and to restore their legal rights.
The hackers brag that they will always be able to break any protection scheme which Apple puts into place. Then they scream like children when Apple takes up their dare. “How dare Apple try to protect themselves!” “How dare they invent systems which make their Operating System increasingly harder to attack.” “Don’t they know that the people who steal from them today will become placid customers tomorrow?” “How dare Apple try to make money off of me? What do they think they are? A business?”