why bother putting a limited OS on a limited-resource netbook?

"Of course, with the hackintosh crowd being built on the foundation of hackers and modders, it didn't take long before someone has hacked 10.6.2 to work again with the Atom"

like hacking OSX was that hard... The Mac -powered laptop was the first to go down at that hacker's conf. a couple years ago, in a record time.

For the same reason people climb mountians.

Apple has a couple niche markets in business. Say you are an IT consultant and you deal with people in those markets, a hackintosh is a cheap and convenient way to do get your hands on a computer that can communicate with those and run Apple software.

You say it's a limited OS? Then it makes sense to not spend too much on a machine that runs it, even if you have to.

why won't apple just break and give this hardware support?

Thats because the person who did it knew of the unpatched exploit before hand.

Hello Apple,

Welcome to the world of Microsoft. Soon, very soon, you'll gather enough interest that the hackers, trojan writers, malware players and general nasties will come your way.

Good luck. You won't win.

Lukewarm regards,
-Tipoo

you cant win apple. you'll have to join the other side sooner or later

He better release the source for that kernel. Aint no way I'd put it in before going over it abit.

It never supported the Intel Atom to begin with. It just happened to work before.

I think Apple is now going to follow the path of MS, seeing that it always was behind on everything...

When a company says 'no modding', there will be those who will go against it.
If apple would have just allowed the hack to exist, nothing much would have changed.
But now some tweak freaks and hackaholics will spend their precious time of sleep, investigating the Apple OS, and publishing their finds on internet!
In 2 to 3 years time OSX and about any other Mac OS released, will be open for hacking and modding just like internet.
The former saying of 'a mac is safer' does not count anymore!

I have a feeling that very soon some nice mods and hacks will become available to many people, and that the only thing Apple can do is generate a new OS (which is based on the previous OSes), and will probably be hacked too!

If you were to wipe away the thick thick cloud of bias and actually spend a second or two with OS X you would know that it has a much smaller foot print than Windows 7 and uses significantly less system resources.

Welcome to the club, Apple...

Doom Time for Apple!!!!!

Buahahaha!!!! >: )

+1

And Linux uses even less, so why not use Linux?

Because Hackintosh isn't about better performance, it's about doing something that people said cannot or should not be done.

>why bother putting a limited OS on a limited-resource netbook?

Ehh. because it's not as slow and crappy as windows is on netbooks. I have OSX on my dell mini and it's fast enough to actually use. Seriously the only reason to sticxk with windows is for games and since you can't play any real games on a netbook anyways, might as well use OSX. think of it as linux with MS Office support.

Man Mac's have so many back doors. How many days has it been since Apple patched out Atom only for it to get hacked back in this many days later?

Before using a "hacked" kernel. I would just run, one version back. Not upgrade to the latest kernel. The fixes included are much less important than not being able to use your O/S ! lol
Ok the atom is a x86 processor with hyperthreading ? How is the o/s eliminating this processor ? I wonder if it looks for a list of all installed intel cpu's or if it looks for the Atom and then rejects ?

Who really cares...................

not really. It has always been about not paying double (apple tax) for mediocre hardware, while allowing the use of obviously well designed OS.

Sorry but I'd still rather use software that was constructed from the minds of the world instead of proprietary equivalents behind closed doors...

figures that would get voted down...

I cannot imagine that OS X is that great hacked on a Netbook. But I imagine they copied a line of code that included the Atom support. If you want OS X on a computer. Why not buy a older MacBook? Its going to run a lot better then a NetBook? Heck, you get a core duo Intel CPU. That's got to run circles around a single core Atom. I am not even sure why Apple would care. But then their coming off Pystar.

More like Sony and Nintendo rather than MS. Generally you could do almost whatever the hell you want with Windows, there's no approval process for an app, the only thing you might want MS to do is certify drivers.

This is getting funny as if you'd take a look at the PSP and Wii, they patch it almost every month, and a week or two later the firmware's cracked again. Almost like the case for the iPhone.

Since all Apple changed was three lines of code, will they leave it at that or make more aggressive steps to lock out Atom processors in future OS updates?

Apple: It just works.*

(...on the lame hardware we choose for you, in ways we're so sure you'll like that we're forcing you to accept it, during any time we are not busy deleting your posts from our boards... ...or on Thursdays)

Please direct complaints regarding these policies to the aforementioned boards.

In OS X you have an option to encrypt your entire home folder. Try that with the Winblows, even their Ultimate overpriced edition does not offer that and if it did I bet the encryption used would have a built in back door for the FEDS.

Haha your comment is completely stupid! Try doing some research. VileFault defaults to unencrypted swap files in Tiger. Panther and below don't even have an option for encrypting swap. /System/Logs /var/log and /tmp are unencrypted. If encrypted swap is enabled then decrytion keys are written out in the header of /var/vm/sleepimage. VileFault doesn't even really offer AES-128 protection because it stores master password for VileFault recovery (/Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain) with only 1024-RSA. Even if the master password is not set VileFault has other exploits that only require defeating 3DES-EDE. BitLocker on the other hand encrypts entire disks and offers actual AES-128. Ultimate does in fact include BitLocker. Of course I probably wouldn't pay for ultimate to get it but would use a free/open source one instead. Thanks for playing.

I had no experience with Mac OS, until last week I was given a Mac Mini which had blue-screen at the start-up. I discovered Mac OS was actually much more powerful than I thought, is got very powerful [Unix] command-line which allows you to modify/configure the xwindows in so many way.

My advice is to try out Hackintosh, you might well like it. http://iatkos.wikidot.com/