Mike, they may call it against their license agreement, but they cannot hope to force someone to use it that way. However, it is not against any law that I know of. if you can make it work, you should be able to support it. Apple won't support it and they are within their rights not to.
for them to sue you over a small thing such as this will result in a lot of negative publicity they don't want. about the only thing they can really do is lock you out of their app store and turn off updates for your machine. I ran a hackintosh for close to 7 months while I saved up for a mac mini. it even got me through my total visual loss. I doubt that windows would have been so forgiving. it was adjudicated sometime in the 1400's in a british court that the manufacturer of a hammer was not allowed to enforce the type of use for the hammer on he person that purchased the tool. same goes here. this is why apple hasn't really taken anyone to court. besides, they also look at the devs in the hackintosh community as a valuable resource to help solve bugs. -Eric On Dec 31, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Really they're not legal, Apple states as part of the license that the > operating system shall only be used on an actual macintosh, so it's against > the license agreement. > On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:50 AM, brandt wrote: > >> Hi there folks, >> >> I have seen several so called hackintosh machines, and was wondering, are >> they legal for one, and if so, are they outside of this lists perview? If >> not, can someone help me by giving instructions on how to build an hp pro >> book 4510s hackintosh. >> >> If it actually work, it'll save me quite a bit of money. Apple products are >> renound for being expensive in South Africa. >> >> For example, the mac mini goes for 6999 rand, about 3 times what I make as a >> swichboard opperator for a small company. >> >> Regards, >> >> Brandt Steenkamp >> >> MSN/Windows live: [email protected] >> >> Google talk: [email protected] >> >> AIM: [email protected] >> >> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
