Apple restores support for Atom CPUs

Posted on Monday, November 09 2009 @ 20:52 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Last week news spread that Apple had killed support for Intel Atom CPUs to prevent people from creating Hackintosh netbooks, but DailyTech reports today that support for this chip has been restored in the latest developer build of Mac OS X:

Among those that first posted the news was Stell's Blog, the blog of an avid developer and Hackintosh fan. In a recently posted update he breaks the good news that Atom support has been resurrected "zombie style" in the latest developer build, 10C535. He writes:

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.

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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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