Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 18:08 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
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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Fortunately in America, I am also free to note illegal behavior and point it out. I will say this one last time - you can't have a post-sale restriction. I believe Apple is doing this. I believe they will be caught and forced to stop doing it. Afterwards, the world will keep on spinning, nothing bad will happen to Apple or the faithful. But at least an illegal behavior will be stopped.
By the way, if for some strange reason Microsoft had the same foolish after-sale restriction on Windows, and informed me in the Eula AFTER I had purchased it, that I couldn't install in on Apple-labelled hardware, I would note that as illegal also. Fortunately they don't, thus Apple users install Windows on their Appple hardware using Boot Camp.
It may seem trivial (especially since I don't run OSX or plan to any time soon), but if we allow companies to do sneaky stuff, you never know what they will do next.