Even Apple Can't Keep a Good Hacker Down
Tech blogs and Hackintosh comment threads confirmed the rumor that a recent update to the Snow Leopard platform eliminates support for a PC-specific processor, thus dropping any compatibility for Intel (INTC) Atom-based computers. That included models from Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Samsung, EEE, and Lenovo.
If anyone running a Hackintosh upgraded to 10.6.2, they found their computer failed to boot after the gray Apple logo screen. Unless they also partitioned the hard drive to run Windows 7 (MSFT) as an alternative, they were looking at a very expensive paperweight. But as Apple already knows -- given how quickly the iPhone is jailbroken after a new upgrade -- you can't keep the hacker community down.
