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Surely not.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
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Uh... what?]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
When Apple's competition locks out pirates from installing patches and fixes, people have fits saying that the competition is exposing their users to viruses, data loss, etc.

Apple has commercials making fun of how their competition for diverting resources (money) from fixing problems to other areas just to protect their revenue stream, and they are cheered for it.

Apple does what they criticize the competition for, and they are justly protecting their revenue stream.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Looks like it, though why there is this uproar over a rumour is beyond me. Having run OSX on a netbook I found it ill suited in its current iteration so having the Atom dropped is pretty much a non-issue for 99% or the market. Surely the several flavours of Linux are a far better choice :)]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Now that Apple releases an OS dirt-cheap it´s no wonder people will try to install it on a piece of hardware which isnt Apple. The chance this happens increases even more thanks to Apple refusing to provide the mass. Ofcourse you could say... well its Apple if you don´t like it don´t buy it. But what right has Apple to tell me on which equipment I can install it? Apple is being attacked on all sides due their closed model which is kind of odd as I remember in the old days that users would scream their lungs out about MS doing exactly the same.

Apple sure produces something nice but its rediculous that they lock in their user-base as much as they do and lock-out their developers equally as bad.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Did you guys really expect Apple to stand still and NOT protect their assets when they are being constantly attacked by companies like Palm and Psystar? Plus Apple is about to release a table with is more or less a netbook. I most likely does not have an Atom CPU but is something similar so it makes a lot of sense to lock Atom out. Don't get me wrong the news of Atom being locked out of SL is both great news and quite bad ones. For one the tablet is very likely to be running a full blown version of the OS but on the other hand Apple is most definitely going to position it in a price range above that of netbooks if they are making sure that netbooks are nor supported.

I really wish Apple would focus a little bit more attention on budget computers but then again my wish really doesn't change the company policy ... ]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
That is their advantage and their disadvantage. More people would try OSX if they didn't have to use it on a Mac. More people would be able to afford it while being able to eat at the same time.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Microsoft went towards being usable by pretty much anyone regardless of hardware (for the most part). Apple went towards usability and a very limited set of hardware. It's much easier to go from a large hardware ecosystem and focus on usability (since the hard part is done). It substantially more difficult to go from having a very easy and good OS to start with and then expanding the hardware ecosystem dramatically (mostly because you risk stability doing so).]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
wait, shit]]>Nov 2nd 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
If OS X were to go mainstream as a stand alone OS then it would probably be Apples version of XP (2001 version). ]]>Nov 2nd 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Re the removal of atom support... i'm not upset because idon't. :)

it's their OS and they don't have a device on which the OS is installed, so I don't even see the problem with this... they have every right to restrict where their OS goes... ]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Although if it's not running OS X, I guess it still could have Atom, but it looks unlikely.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
I've never owned an Atom-based computer, but I kind of don't see it as being that great. The Fujitsu Lifebook P1510 had a Core Solo ULV CPU at 1.0 or 1.2 GHz, and with their extended battery it weighed around 2 lbs. and had a battery life of 6 hours. Of course, at release it cost around $1500, not $300 like netbooks do now.

Intel plans to introduce Atom CPUs for cellphones. But it seems to me that Intel needs to do something better than the Atom if they want to compete with ARM based CPUs.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Draconian app approval process, suing Pystar, blocking Palm, now killing off individual chip support. What's next eliminating support for Google Maps and developing their own in-house maps? Oh wait...]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Hasn't Apple always been such a douche company?]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
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Right now I want an affordable mid-range tower than can drive quad monitors, a netbook and a low cost laptop to round out my computing nirvanna. Apple's cheapest unit that can drive quad monitors is $2500 (ouch), they don't even make a netbook and their low cost laptops start at $1000 (with non-user replaceable batteries, no less).

If I complain about this in the usual Mac circles, the Mac faithful make it very clear that I'm simply not in Apple's target market and I should deal with it. To this point I've resisted that idea, but I'm starting to see that they're right. If I want an easy to use, flexible, affordable computer then I need to start looking at Windows 7.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
Obviously, they're referring to modifications relevant to the Psystar case, but taken the wrong way, this could imply that anyone who installs 3rd party software that uses items like kernel extensions to enhance functionality would effectively be running a pirated copy of Mac OS X upon rebooting their system.]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
I see...]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/
http://www.boilingclay.com/caught_red_handed.bmp]]>Nov 2nd 2009 7:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/02/apple-killing-atom-support-dreams-of-netbook-hackintoshers-in-n/Nov 2nd 2009 7:52PM