If you are running a netbook with Mac OS X Snow Leopard then you might want to hold off updating it to the 10.6.2 update when it is released as it seems that this version of Snow Leopard will no longer be compatible with Intel Atom processors.

In the current developer build of 10.6.2, 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.

It is not clear as yet whether this will be the case when Snow Leopard 10.6.2 goes live, I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.

Stellarola via Gadget Lab

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