Have an Intel Atom Netbook? It won’t work in the next Snow Leopard update. That’s what Mac hacker Stellarola, behind the OSx86 hacking method, notes. “In the current developer build of 10.6.2,” he writes, “Apple appears to have changed around a lot of CPU related information. One of the effects of this is Apple killing off Intel’s Atom chip.” That means a lot of FrankenMac netbooks could be left out in the cold in the next version of Snow Leopard. *shakes head* We just don’t understand Apple’s inexplicable motives sometimes. source
Late Tuesday, Intel announced that they had estimated current quarter sales of $8.5 billion, which totally blew analysts’ numbers out of the water. Even better, their previous-quarter sales managed to top analysts’ numbers, too. Good to see someone’s doing really well.
