Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 18:08 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Mac OS X Anyone who hangs around on websites with information about installing Mac OS X on non-Apple labelled computers has probably already encountered this report, but it's newsworthy anyway. The upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6.2 will remove support for the Intel Atom line of processors from Mac OS X.
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RE: What?
by sbergman27 on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 20:50 UTC in reply to "What?"
sbergman27
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Surely the Atom is fully X86 compatible?

There are ways to tell, of course:

If processor is Atom then...

Microsoft killed DR DOS using similar techniques. My Compaq notebook's bios refuses to boot the OS if it sees the Intel mini-pci wifi card I bought to replace the horrid HP-labeled Broadcom one.

It's business as usual for entities which maintain a pack of attorneys on perpetual retainer.

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