Apple may remove support for the Intel Atom processor from its upcoming Snow Leopard 10.6.2 release.

According to OS X Daily, Hackintosh users who run OS X on their netbook will need to hold off before upgrading. They have confirmed that 10.6.2 kills support for the netbook processor.

You can’t help but suspect this move is Apple’s attempt at shutting down the growing and popular Hackintosh Netbook community, since Apple has no product line that runs the Atom itself. Mac OS X runs absolutely flawlessly on much of the PC Netbook hardware, once it’s configured you wouldn’t know you’re not on a Mac. Maybe it’s in effort to kill the Atom Hackintosh Netbooks in anticipation of the rumored Tablet?

Another alternative would be to upgrade to 10.6.2 and use either the stock 10.0.0 kernel or use modded Snow kernels. It is likely that the hackintosh community will provide a workaround shortly after the operating system is updated.

[OS X Daily] [StellaRola]