Apple doesn’t have any netbooks on the market right now, but that doesn’t keep people from loading OSX on netbooks. Apple is currently engaged in a war of compatibility with Palm and, if the developer build of Snow Leopard version 10.6.2 is any indication, the Atom processor is next on the chopping block.
The word among developers is that Apple will kill support for the Atom line of processors. That could certainly change before it hits the world at large, but we wouldn’t bet on it. This would be in line with Apple’s ever growing strategy of extreme closed source development in both hardware and software that we’ve seen growing lately across their brands.
So, if you’re viewing this on an netbook install of your own devising you may be stuck at version 10.6.1 (or earlier) for awhile — or you may need to do a little custom kernel building. Either way, we’re thinking that if Apple ever gets around to making a netbook it probably won’t be an Atom-powered one. We’ll see how long it takes hackers to devise a workaround, probably not too long.
via Engadget
