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Snow Leopard Smashes Atom

Apple on Monday issued its latest update to its Snow Leopard operating system. Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes a slew of bugs and glitches that users had been complaining about. It also froze out Intel’s Atom chip, leaving “hackintosh” users — people who use do-it-yourself methods to run Mac OS X on Intel-powered netbooks — out in the cold.

Apple Releases Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Update

Apple has just released their second minor update to their latest desktop operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2. While there are a lot of fixes for Mac users, iPhone users may want to pay particular attention to the “general reliability improvements” for MobileMe and iDisk. (And yes, the infamous “guest account” data deletion [...]

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Apple Releases Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 Update

Psystar’s Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting

CWmike writes “While the world focused on Microsoft’s launch of Windows 7, Florida-based Psystar quietly launched Rebel EFI, a software product that should worry Apple a lot more than Microsoft’s latest operating system. Rebel EFI allows users to run Apple’s flagship operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, on non-Apple hardware. Computerworld test drove the making of a Hackintosh out of a generic PC with the company’s new software package and found a product that has a lot of homework still to do. Reviewer Frank Ohlhorst’s final analysis: ‘Psystar’s Rebel EFI (a free trial is available) is an interesting tool, but it is very limited when it comes to the selection of hardware that you can use. The company really needs to create a compatible hardware list and post that on its Web site — and it also needs to create some usable documentation. As it stands right now, you can use Rebel EFI to build a Mac clone, but unless you stick to relatively generic hardware, you will be disappointed.’”

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