It's not clear whether Apple would have intentionally broken Atom support in this release to discourage people from installing the operating system on netbooks. But Atom compatibility is clearly not a high priority for Apple since the company doesn't make any products that use the processor.
There had been some reports over the past week or so that pre-release builds of OS X 10.6.2 did or didn't work with Atom. But it looks like the final build that was released today falls into the not-working category.
It's very possible, (perhaps even inevitable) that sooner or later a hacker will figure out some way to modify the OS to support Atom powered netbooks. But for right now, if you have OS X installed on your netbook, you'll probably want to hold off on downloading the update.
Post from: Liliputing
OS X 10.6.2 is out: Intel Atom support not included
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