Apple disabling Atom support in Mac OS X 10.6.2?
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 2, 2009 at 2:11pm
If the developer build of Snow Leopard version 10.6.2 is any indication, Intel’s Atom processor is next on the “smack down list,” reports Engadget. “Word on coder street is that the upcoming revision of OS X will kill support for Intel’s little powerhouse,” the article adds.
For most of us that may not be a big deal. But it is a biggie to those daring users who like to make their own “Hacintosh” netbook.
The low-power Intel Atom processor is behind much of Intel’s growth into several new computing-related market segments, extending the Intel architecture to embedded industries such as automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), industrial control and automation, and media phones, says Doug Davis, vice president, Digital Enterprise Group and general manager, Embedded and Communications Group, Intel.
The Atom processor is the company’s smallest. It’s also used in many netbook products.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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