Snow Leopard Update Kills Netbook 'Hackintoshes'

With this development, Apple seems to be now paying attention to hobbyists that hack their hardware to allow it to do things originally not designed to do.
Wired's GadgetLab:

Just as we feared, the latest update to Snow Leopard, version 10.6.2, drops support for the Intel Atom processor. This means that anyone with a “hackintosh” who tries to update to the latest operating system version will see their computer die, going no further than the gray Apple logo on startup.

The reports are lighting up the various hackintosh forums, and OSx86 co-author Stellarolla sums it up thusly:

Well, looks like I was right, again. The netbook forums are now blowing up with problems of 10.6.2 instant rebooting their Atom based netbooks. My sources tell me that every time a netbook user installs 10.6.2 an Apple employee gets their wings.