Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Nov 2009 22:10 UTC, submitted by mckill
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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And I could have shoplifted my copy of Snow Leopard or Windows, so what point are you trying to make? That bad people do bad things, and we shouldn’t report on things that affect the good people because of that? I’ll personally agree that it was sensationalist (Oh noes, something breaks that Apple was never testing with in the first place), but then that’s all down to whoever picks up the story here at OSnews.
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by Thom_Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 10:38
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Perhaps a bit less sensationalism
I'm getting sick of that stupid sensationalism claim. These days it is used whenever someone dislikes an article - merit, or no merit.
Explain to me: what is the sensationalism? The article was careful, and clearly stated that Apple has no obligation to maintain Atom support. The article also made NO mention about intentional breakage.
Seriously dude, where's the sensationalism? Back up those frakking claims, for god's sake.
Edited 2009-11-05 10:40 UTC
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But how do we know for sure (confirmed) that it was the Atom processor at fault here? For what I know, the built was tried on a Hackintosh so lots of things could go wrong. Apple doesn't support all kind of hardware last time I've checked.
I have an Amstrad machine (uses floppy,2 actually) and I can confirm that it doesn't run the latest OS X build.
Edited 2009-11-05 11:10 UTC
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Seriously dude, where's the sensationalism? Back up those frakking claims, for god's sake.
Thom - pretty much all of your articles read like blog posts to your personal blog these days. I also note, you haven't posted to your blog in months (or at least that was true when I looked a couple of days ago..)
People claim "sensationalism" because when ever you report anything recently, it reads like your own opinion, not objective reporting. That is all.
As an example : I had the perception that you had a complete and utter anti-iPhone stance, but you recently did a 180 on! A month ago you were obsessing about the Pre and pretty much sounded like the iPhone was the devil's own device.
Anyway, I think the phrase that best describes my own personal feelings about OS News recently is - "quality, not quantity". I'd rather have little or no news, but well reported and balanced reporting rather than hundreds of articles that read like personal vendettas* and opinion pieces**.
Things used to be a lot better. I'm sure you can return to that if you stop making OS News feel like your personal blog. I'm sure you'll feel I'm being unreasonable and attack me for having an opinion that differs from your own on this subject, I await the rebuttal ;-P But, I *am* a long term reader though - I started reading OS News when Eugenia moved here from BeNews. I'm not just saying this to be annoying or get you mad - it's the truth from where I'm sitting. Weigh that up and do whatever you see fit with it. Only *you* can make the necessary changes.
* Of course, it is not necessarily always true - even when claimed. That is just my perception of your general writing recently.
** ditto.
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Well, not everyone who builds a hackintosh has a legal copy of OS X. I know quite a few people who simply download one of the hacked ISOs from their favorite bittorrent mirror and never buy a license at all. So, whether it's legal or not isn't something you can say, Thom. More to the point, though, I'd say this is supposed to be reported here since it's news about an operating system and this is osnews. Imagine that. Perhaps a bit less sensationalism in the original article when Atom support was removed would've been better though, you made it sound like Apple was intentionally breaking hackintosh netbooks. I'd not put it past them to do such a thing, but it's always best to have proof first.