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Tech: Lame: Apple’s trying to block hacked Macs from its architecture

  • Have an Intel Atom Netbook? It won’t work in the next Snow Leopard update. That’s what Mac hacker Stellarola, behind the OSx86 hacking method, notes. “In the current developer build of 10.6.2,” he writes, “Apple appears to have changed around a lot of CPU related information. One of the effects of this is Apple killing off Intel’s Atom chip.” That means a lot of FrankenMac netbooks could be left out in the cold in the next version of Snow Leopard. *shakes head* We just don’t understand Apple’s inexplicable motives sometimes. source
 

4 Responses to Lame: Apple’s trying to block hacked Macs from its architecture

  1. texasbrian says:

    Why is that “lame”? Apple has always (except for two non-Jobs years) has a similar EULA policy. Don’t hack. If you do, hack at your own peril.

  2. This is true, but straight-up block­ing an entire chipset years after people were using it for that function­al­ity? That seems kind of petty.

    They’re already not getting support from Apple for the Franken­Macs. This just seems like a step too far.

  3. texasbrian says:

    Why is that “lame”? Apple has always (except for two non-Jobs years) has a similar EULA policy. Don’t hack. If you do, hack at your own peril.

  4. This is true, but straight-up block­ing an entire chipset years after people were using it for that function­al­ity? That seems kind of petty.

    They’re already not getting support from Apple for the Franken­Macs. This just seems like a step too far.

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