On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Kenneth Miller
<[email protected]> wrote:
> oooh crap. i just thought of something. does mac have the drivers necessary
> to support a regular pc like he's got? is he talking about just placing mac

The OS X product is tied to a special build of Darwin created by
Apple.  Apple does not include any drivers other than those necessary
for Apple hardware.  Getting OS X to work on anything other than a Mac
is extremely difficult, and potentially illegal depending on how a
court case currently in progress turns out.

> on his desktop with an install disc or buying a mac? because i've never seen
> mac OS on any hardware other than mac's. even if he switches, he still won't
> get his hardware working... and he'll just pay a whole bunch.
>
> and hey... can you actually buy a mac osX install disc like you can Xp or
> vista?

You can buy an installation disk of OS X, however, this is intended to
allow you to upgrade from older versions or to perform a clean install
in the event you do something dumb like `sudo rm -rf /`

> i really want to help solve his problem...

If he doesn't have Apple hardware, Linux is his only solution other
than Windows - unless he wasn't to try a BSD, which isn't all that bad
an idea.

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