OS X 10.6.2 offers tons of fixes, breaks Atom support again

This Atom Hackintosh story's been flip-flopping like a dolphin at SeaWorld, but here's the final answer: OS X 10.6.2 is out, and it apparently does not run on machines with Atom CPUs. That's the bad news. The good news is that 10.6.2 offers an absolute smorgasbord of tweaks and fixes. Apple's release notes with one of these OS updates usually include some vague message about improved security and stability, and that's it. This time, there's a laundry list of improvements.
The update, which is around 160MB if you're upgrading from 10.6.1, corrects a few nagging issues in the Finder: Exchange contacts not showing up in Spotlight, flaky menu extras, wonky VPN connections and - this one was a personal peeve of mine - not being able to add photos to Address Book. Also, the problem with opening multiple downloaded files at once (a problem Apple never actually acknowledged) is now fixed. Hooray! The whole list is pretty long, and there's also an extensive list of potential exploits addressed by 10.6.2's security update.












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Subscribe to commentskojo87Nov 10th 2009 10:11PM
right when i was thinking about doing a multiboot Hackintosh on my EeePC they killed Atom support. fiddlesticks
NickNov 10th 2009 10:43PM
Okay, I've seen a lot about this one breaking Atom support, but why does nobody seem to be picking up that this update seems to fix the data deletion bug?
JoshNov 11th 2009 9:38AM
Or loads of other bugs? Why is the fact that they killed support for a chip that they don't use such big news compared to the fixes actually in the release?
RickardNov 12th 2009 5:19AM
After updating I can no longer open the "Event Planner" template (or documents based on it) in Numbers.