Nothing’s official just yet, but the latest Snow Leopard developer build, version 10.6.2, does away with Atom CPU support. It’s not a big deal to the average Mac user, but for anyone who has put the hours of dedication and frustration into making a Hackintosh, it’s a huge deal. It would effectively kill Snow Leopard for the little lappies, at least until someone can find a workaround.
For the few among us running OS X on a Dell Mini or other such devices, you’re going to be stuck on 10.6.1 if you made the upgrade work. It has to make you wonder, though, if Apple isn’t targeting the tiny community ahead of the tablet release to encourage a few more purchases. Then again, the community is so small and the anticipation of an Apple tablet so great that it’s hard to imagine that to be the case.
