A few days ago, word spread that the latest (at the time) developer build of Snow Leopard all but killed support for the Intel Atom processor. The atom processor, of course, is often found in the netbooks that happen to be popular amongst those seeking to create hackintosh machines. When news began to trickle down throughout the Apple blogosphere, it seemed that Apple was finally taking some concrete steps to thwart an arguably growing and thriving hackintosh community.
Instructions for installing OS X onto non-Apple hardware can be found all over the web, and the process has become a lot simpler over the past few years as well. And with notebooks often priced below $300, buying a cheap PC and then installing OS X is becoming increasingly popular. From that vantage point, it makes sense that Apple would take steps to thwart such actions. When a few hobbyists are putting OS X onto generic hardware for fun, that's one thing, but once it starts trending as a more mainstream activity, then Apple obviously can't ignore it for too long. Some even speculated that the timing wasn't coincidental and that Apple's actions were done in anticipation of its upcoming and rumored tablet.
But just as quickly as it seemed that Apple was digging in its heels for an anti-hackintosh position comes word that the most recent developer build of OS X 10.6.2 (build 10C535) now supports, once again, Intel's Atom processors.
So for the time being, hackintosh enthusiaststs can breath a collective sigh of relief.
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