[tehjord]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

It is definitely not a rumor that 10.6.2 breaks support for the Atom... as this has been tested and confirmed.

But it definitely is a rumor that this will halt "Hackintoshes" and Minis running OSX. As others have mentioned, the kernel for OSX is open and able to be replaced. I am sure there will be a solution to this problem in time... and it will not hurt anyone to continue running OSX 10.6.1, will it?

Also, it is unclear whether Apple was intentionally doing this to target the "netbook crowd"... although it seems as if that would be the case.

Rumors rumors rumors. Part true, part false.

Ya I expressed myself incorrectly, I meant to direct my statement toward the headliners' titles spreading around today and not the fact that running the 10.6.2 kernel somehow breaks something.

As I said though, I doubt this is apple messing around with the kernel intentionally to break Atom's support and not an aftereffect of something else. Eitherway, this should be a quickfix in bothcase, although possibly a recurrent one a bit like Palm has to fix their synching support for the pre with each itune's update.

[jdcnosse]

and just when I put a copy of Snow Leopard on my Christmas list lol

I'm sure they'll either be a workaround, or they'll be a easy way to swap out the kernel for an older one...

[atm153]

Well, that sucks. I'm sure it wasn't intentional, I really doubt Apple's testing their developer builds against Atom processors so this is probably just an oversight. They were probably optimizing something for i7 in the new iMacs, and it just happened to break Atom support. I really hope it doesn't end up being this way in the official release though, running a vanilla kernel is one of the reasons I really like the Mini.

[scififan68]

This could be like in 10.5.6, when we thought we would need to patch dsdt for it to boot, but it turned out we didnt need a patched dsdt in the final build of 10.5.6.

[yuusharo]

According to Netkas, 10.6.2 introduces new graphics drivers for all of the Intel graphics chipsets that they currently support, including the GMA945. What does that mean to a Mac user? It means that older machines that currently do not boot to 64-bit by default are now able to. But since our netbooks run the 32-bit only Atom, we're in for some hurdles.

Its nice that Meklort has come out and said that the old 10.6 and 10.6.1 kernels seem to work okay. My guess is some older kexts will be needed going forward with each update, but nothing earth-shattering.

[lilianne]

Sorry, I'm new to the world of Hackintoshed hardware. Could anyone give directions on how to use the 10.6.1 kernel and still benefit from the 10.6.2 update? Or should we just stick with 10.6.1 until we know more?

[HuRR]

Originally Posted by yuusharo

According to Netkas, 10.6.2 introduces new graphics drivers for all of the Intel graphics chipsets that they currently support, including the GMA945. What does that mean to a Mac user? It means that older machines that currently do not boot to 64-bit by default are now able to. But since our netbooks run the 32-bit only Atom, we're in for some hurdles.

Its nice that Meklort has come out and said that the old 10.6 and 10.6.1 kernels seem to work okay. My guess is some older kexts will be needed going forward with each update, but nothing earth-shattering.

How is it possible to boot in 64 bit if they aren't capable? The Mac Mini from 2006 that I have, is a Yonah based Core Duo system and is only 32 bit. Kinda weird if you ask me. Not that it makes a difference but 10.6.1 is very stable if you ask me. Holding off till 10.6.2 shouldn't be that big of a problem.... I think.

[holmes4]

It seems there's a lot of guesses and speculation here. At this point I suggest just waiting until 10.6.2 is released and the experts find out what the story is.

[jdcnosse]

Originally Posted by HuRR

How is it possible to boot in 64 bit if they aren't capable? The Mac Mini from 2006 that I have, is a Yonah based Core Duo system and is only 32 bit. Kinda weird if you ask me. Not that it makes a difference but 10.6.1 is very stable if you ask me. Holding off till 10.6.2 shouldn't be that big of a problem.... I think.

My only guess is that the OS X software has the ability to run in 64-bit, but the EFI hardware wasn't defaulted to 64-bit, and so it was like they couldn't run 64-bit.

It was probably enacted so that Apple wouldn't have the "bad press" that Microsoft has when they've released things too early *cough* Vista *cough*

[reberto]

Originally Posted by bmcclure937

It is definitely not a rumor that 10.6.2 breaks support for the Atom... as this has been tested and confirmed.

10.6.2 isn't even out yet, so no it isn't.