Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by mckill
Mac OS X We reported on the lack of Atom support in development builds of Mac OS X 10.6.2, but a more recent build re-enables support for Intel's Atom line, popular in netbooks. "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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RE[2]: Comment by kaiwai
by kaiwai on Thu 5th Nov 2009 08:40 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by kaiwai"
kaiwai
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intel is the one creating and providing the GMA drivers to apple, they are the ones dragging their feet with the 64bit versions of their drivers.

not that it matters anyways since there is pretty much no real reason a machine with a GMA card could really take advantage of what a 64bit kernel provides.


That makes absolutely no sense what so ever - you need a 64bit GMA extension so that the kernel can run in 64bit mode; it has nothing to do with whether or not the GPU takes advantage of a 64bit kernel. The GPU is absolutely irrelevant to what is being discussed.

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