Hi Brandt,
I suppose that all depends on exactly how you define legal. grin In any
case, I think the biggest drawbacks in my own experience, is the lack of
support and inability to update the OS. However, if you possess rather stellar
skills at compiling and hacking, you might just be able
Legal, who knows but if you buy the software and hardware who cares.:)
As for does it work, yes it does. My friend has OSX running on an EEEPC from
Asus.:)
On Dec 31, 2010, at 2:50 AM, brandt wrote:
Hi there folks,
I have seen several so called hackintosh machines, and was wondering,
One thing I don't get is why Apple doesn't just go ahead and support personal
computers. I could understand if they were still using the PowerPC processors
why they wouldn't support PC's because it was a different processor. However,
since Apple computers now use the same processor as the PC,
Just before Steve Jobs came back to Apple they did do this, and the results
were less then Stellar. When Apple owns the complete hardware and operating
system, then they can do better quality control, and that directly effects
their ability to support customers as well as they do. I have to
As someone pointed out, Apple can ensure a certain experience on the Mac
platform by not supporting a very wide variety of hardware types THis model has
worked well for Apple and honestly most people do not care what is under the
hood, but instead care if it works. I used to like hacking and
It will void your sticker on the apple cd should you decide to do it. I watched
a youtube vid on it I think sometime last year.
S
On Dec 31, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Jenny Wood wrote:
Hi Brandt,
I suppose that all depends on exactly how you define legal. grin In any
case, I think the biggest
I don't think so, the ula is specific as to not running the operating system on
anything but apple product...
On 2010-12-31, at 2:50 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
I had a friend that had one, by the time he spent tweeking and pulling and
slashing, it took a lot of hours to get the system marginal... Vo worked very
poorly and if hackintosh was to be the representation that you get as a first
impression, you'd be disapointed.
On 2010-12-31, at 2:53 AM,
one argument that doesn't favor wide adoption of pc support is that they keep
the hardware limited, and support chosen and hand-picked hardware. Keeps the
tech calls down.
On 2010-12-31, at 1:09 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
One thing I don't get is why Apple doesn't just go ahead and support personal
he must have been running some pretty off the path hardware.
I ran a hackintosh on unsupported hardware from 10.4 on up to the current OS X
10.6. I got an apple mac mini earlier this year and dumped the Hackintosh. for
me, setting it up was a lot easier than most. I stuck with an intel branded
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
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
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
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
From what I hear, they are buggy, and you don't get full Apple support in
terms of the OS. Plus, also what I hear, is when you update the whole system
goes flat, though I haven't tried it myself. Anyone want to chime in?
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:50 PM, brandt brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote:
in the strictest sense: no. However, apple only states that they cannot support
the use of their OS on unsupported hardware.
as for this being the purview of the list, thats probably up to the list owners
to decide.
-Eric
On Dec 31, 2010, at 12:50 AM, brandt wrote:
Hi there folks,
I
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