November 03, 2009

Apple has decided to kill the growing Hackint0sh community with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.6.2 update. If you have been thinking that Mac OS X runs just on Mac machines, then say hello to Hackint0sh Netbook community. This hacking community makes Mac OS X run on non-Apple hardware and every possible Intel Atom-based netbook. Stell's blog first came up with the information about Mac OS X 10.6.2 developer build that had different CPU related information.

Hackint0sh community basically comes up with hacks to install Mac OS X on every possible netbook, with fixes and patches of course. Stell recommends Intel Atom Netbook users to stay on Hackint0sh OS X 10.5.8 version (Leopard) since 10.5.9 might have the same effect as 10.6.2 or OS X 10.6.1 (Snow Leopard). Other options include using "stock 10.0.0 kernel or modified Snow Leopard kernel". We kid you not but the Hackint0sh community would surely come out with workaround, sooner or later.

Apple is obviously trying to shutdown the Hackint0sh fever on fast selling netbooks. It's been long rumored for coming out with a Mac Tablet which eventually is being pushed to next year 2010. The only reason for Apple to kill Hackint0sh support is losing potential software business. Potential here means, if Apple launches its Apple netbook or tablet in future, users would already be using Snow Leopard on netbooks.

Whichever strategy Apple chooses, it's not going to be end of Mac OS X on netbooks. Hackint0sh community would continue working to find exploits and come up with workarounds. If only Apple could release special netbook version of Snow Leopard to run on Intel Atom netbooks, Windows 7 would have tough time. But as we all know, that's not going to happen.

Source:- http://www.techtree.com