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Hackintoshers, rejoice: Atom support returns to 10.6.2

CrunchGear Nov 19 09

Apple has a history of spoiling hackers’ fun. In fact, they’ve almost made a business model out of it. But hackers won’t be kept down, and a little netbook running OS X is too tempting a gadget to give up on. So when Apple nixed Atom support in an recent update (strictly out of spite), [...] Full story...

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