OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

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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RE: What took them so long?

by wirespot on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 21:52 UTC in reply to "What took them so long?"

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Wow, let's count the ways you're mentally challenged:

It's obvious that Apple only sees two options for "dealing with" hackintoshes:

Assuming that Apple intentionally disabled Atom support, check.

I've done some looking around and so far it all boils down to some random guy going by the nick "stellarolla" and the description "I like to say things and eat stuff", saying Apple "killed" Atom support in 10.6.2. There's no word on who this guy is, whether it's more than just a rumor or any evidence for the lack of Atom support or whether it was their explicit intention to do so or a side-effect of another update.

BTW, here's looking at you, Thom. Way to do reporting, buddy. We're down to rumors and links to random blogs now, eh? Great going, OSNews.

Try to find a judge gullible enough to uphold their fantasies about EULAs being the same as proper, pre-sales contracts.

Not understanding the first thing about EULAs, contract or copyright law, check.

If you have ANY legal training, by all means, make me eat my words.

And I'll bet we'll see many more examples of option number 2 now that Psystar has actually fought back

Twisted logic supporting Pystar yet not seeing how what they're doing might go wrong, check.

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Apple actually will disable Atom on purpose; what the hell do you think the outcome of Psystar's blatant disregard for the law will be? Here's how the real world works: there's gonna be a lawsuit, and Psystar will lose.

Furthermore, Apple might just feel that they've been too nice to their users. The honor system instead of copy protection? Letting them install OS X on anything they wanted? What were we thinking? Let's lock this baby down. Oh, thank you Psystar! You really opened our eyes!

That's the one area where I do agree with Maclots - if Psystar wins, there's NO way Apple would be reasonable enough to drop their hardware/software lock-in tactics.

Being a complete moron, check.

Seriously. You really expected a random company to go to another, say "I think I'm gonna steal your business from you", and the 2nd company should just roll over and let them. "Reasonable". Seriously?

Not really surprising, it's the typical reaction of a control freak.

Being out of touch with reality, check.

Apple has no copy protection in OS X, they don't pursue hackintosh projects, they made the record labels take DRM out of all the music on the iTunes Store, they're not a monopoly, not trying to limit choice of consumers, not trying to sell their stuff as cheap as possible just to make people buy it. But they do dare to go against a company who is trying to illegally steal their business from them. Yes, typical control freak.

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