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Apple’s latest Mac OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard build resurrects Atom support

Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 12:14 AM EST

"Word that Apple had disabled Atom support in a Mac OS X 10.6.2 beta seed may have been premature, an update from the same discoverer says." A newer build, 10C535, now appears to have brought the feature back and hints that the lack of Atom support may have been a bug or an otherwise temporary action," Electronista reports. "Apple's code doesn't have any immediate clues as to whether or not the move was intentional."

Electronista reports, "Apple is known to regularly allow at least basic support of processors outside of those used in Macs but often doesn't provide full feature support or any guarantees that this support will persist."

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "TheConfuzed1" for the heads up.]