Well that was quick. Most of my editing consisted of deleting tons of now-irrelevant lines. If you need to update to 10.6.3 then follow the three simple steps in the OS Update guide. Make sure to backup before you update!
Less than 24 hours after I posted about Snow Leopard’s Atom conundrum, Apple goes off and actually releases a final build. And much to our dismay, it kills the Atom, despite the glimmer of hope after one of the builds added support back. So don’t update right now, unless you are an advanced user. (If you know how to do it, back up your mach kernel from 10.6.1 and then replace the 10.6.2 kernel with your backup. I’m not supporting this, just saying.)
Feel free to comment about the kernel issue, but I will not be replying about the process. After all, I’m still running good old 10.5.8.
I’ve noticed a few e-mails in my inbox (I’m still sorting through answering them) and there is one question that has popped up a bit: will the 10.6.2 OS update kill our pretty little Dell Macs? Here’s the answer: no one knows.
When this issue first popped up, meklort had stated on the MDM forums that it was a kernel issue, since using the kernel from 10.6.1 on a developer build of 10.6.2 made it work.
Then, while I was gone, it was reported that a later developer build suddenly worked again. And wouldn’t you know it, the latest build apparently knocks it out again. My, my, my….
Here’s the deal, folks. Speculation will not get us anywhere right now. We can’t make a fix for a problem that may or may not exist in the final release build. But you can be assured of one thing: your netbooks will be just fine. Hopefully the final build won’t kill off the Atom processor, and even if it does it will be a very short time before it is fixed. So just wait until it actually comes out and see what happens. We’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
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