Intel Atom Still Unsupported on Mac OS X 10.6.2 Seeds
A new post by developer and Tumblr user stellarola who has been monitoring the situation indicates that the claim of restored Atom support in Build 10C535 had been faked. He claims to have received confirmation from multiple sources that Atom is not supported in the latest developer seed, known as Build 10C540, released last week.
I spoke to another colleague of mine and he noticed the date of the kernel. He sent me a picture of his kernel information from 10.6.1, which uses the same kernel as 10.6.0. (The name has been removed for privacy purposes)
As you can see the date is exactly the same as the old kernel. Now, let's take a look at my gf's Core2Duo system that's running 10.6.2 Build 10C535. (The name has been removed for privacy purposes)
Obviously the date is different than the previous two. Anyone can tell the first image from "MachVoluM" is a fake. My sources still tell me the Atom CPU is still unsupported even in the latest 10.6.2 build 10C540.
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I have my doubts that this is intentional to malicious targeting against Atom. We'll have to see once everything is out.
Honestly, I myself have a hackintosh built but for news related to it, I go to insanelymac or netkas blog, and not come to macrumors to hear about it. Lets stick with core mac news (ahem rumors :) )
at this point no one has access to the mythical 10.6.2
Well that's a real pickle.
I have my doubts that this is intentional to malicious targeting against Atom. We'll have to see once everything is out.
I just hope there are some folks testing it out on the 2006 vintage Yonah Core Duo boxes as well, since they are 32 bit only as well.
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Well that's a real pickle.
I have my doubts that this is intentional to malicious targeting against Atom. We'll have to see once everything is out.
So what do you think it is if not intentional?
So what do you think it is if not intentional?
Apple is phasing out support for anything but 64 bit in many ways. My iMac won't be supported for Boot Camp in W7, and for a while there it looked like it would not be able to run SL at all.
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I just hope there are some folks testing it out on the 2006 vintage Yonah Core Duo boxes as well, since they are 32 bit only as well.
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So what do you think it is if not intentional?
I don't really know. Yonah is much older than Atom but there might be some specific feature sets that aren't replicated on Atom that 10.6.2 is looking for. I have no idea what the reasoning behind that is though.
I don't care if they support it, I just don't want them to break it.
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