This is correct. The licensing means it absolves apple of support and or performance levels.
There aren't apple police who will come arrest you.:) not yet anyway that's probably on Steve Job's todo list. On Dec 31, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > 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: brandt...@live.com >>> >>> Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> >>> AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> >>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
