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Yeah a few, we never saw them again... :P

 

It's kewl, I kinda always wanted to move to mexico anyways. Just didn't know I was going to be doing it running from the law. :unsure:

 

I didn't think about this untill I noticed that installer didn't tell me to register later. I put in my address, phone number, my mac ID... I should have just walked up to Steve Jobs, hand him my wallet, knock him over the head, and run off with his MacBook Air.

Actually, I think apple tolerates this place and others like it, since we beta test their

OS on a myriad of hardware, saving them thousands of person-hours in developing new systems.

 

I once sent Apple an angry email about Apple's lack of iTunes support for Vista x64, stating that they left me no choice but to build a Hackintosh, in order to run iTunes properly.

 

I still await the knock on the door, but I note that iTunes does finally work with Vista x64, and hence, I have no quarrel with Apple anymore.

 

I do wish they would give MS some real competition by selling OS X for vanilla PC's.

 

I bought my copy of OS X, and was happy to do so. Once I achieve Hackintosh perfection, I may just register it - deliberately.

 

-Mike

I doubt Apple cares all that much - I think Hackintoshes are a pretty niche market(think about it - Mac markets itself as being simple to use, but you really need to be something of a techie to get osx86 running perfectly). The user base is probably pretty low, and it is really more or less a hobbiest thing(seriously, what is the bigger reason you got a Hackintosh - because it is cheaper and almost as good, or because you love tinkering with computers? I know for me it is both, but mostly the latter).

 

And of course it is is probably a great marketing ploy. I had stopped using Macs in the late 90's when Apple was headed in the wrong direction, and the ability to test out OSX & relearn the Mac OS(my last Mac had System 7.5.5 on it) was probably the main reason I went out and bought my MacBook last year. A Hackintosh works just well enough to be more functional than a PC, but has just enough glitches that it leave you wanting the real thing(certainly updating to 10.5.2 was a lot easier & more stress free than for my non-vanilla Hack).

Actually, I think apple tolerates this place and others like it, since we beta test their

OS on a myriad of hardware, saving them thousands of person-hours in developing new systems.

 

I once sent Apple an angry email about Apple's lack of iTunes support for Vista x64, stating that they left me no choice but to build a Hackintosh, in order to run iTunes properly.

 

I still await the knock on the door, but I note that iTunes does finally work with Vista x64, and hence, I have no quarrel with Apple anymore.

 

I do wish they would give MS some real competition by selling OS X for vanilla PC's.

 

I bought my copy of OS X, and was happy to do so. Once I achieve Hackintosh perfection, I may just register it - deliberately.

 

-Mike

 

I tend to think likewise. Most of us own macbooks or older Apple products anyway. I own a macbook and also own two legal copies of Leopard. Plus I am pretty sure my next desktop upgrade will be a full-blown Mac Pro.

 

If they wanted, they could have made it way harder for us to run OS X, and yet they didn't. I think there are several reasons. One is indeed - hardware testing. Just imagine how many different pieces of hardware are in our systems. Second thing - it obviously gives people a chance to get to know OS X and give them initiative to switch to mac. Third thing - developers. They have a chance to port / test software.

 

There are of course many other bonuses which I haven't covered.

 

And no, I disagree with the whole legal OS X on Vanilla PCs. If it were to happen, OS X would eventually become just like any M$ system, with all the negative sides of it - virii, bloatware so on and so forth..

I bought Leopard as well. 139 $CAN it was worth it, way more reasonable than >300$ XP pro or Vista Ultimate. They're not really a software company like Microsoft, they make way more money on hardware, so I don't think they care that much about Hackintoshes. But maybe one day they'll start bricking Hackintoshes with updates like they did to hacked iPhones :)

i think a company as big as apple are smart. as some of you saying, they probably just deliberately make it "able" for us to try mac os x. it's like answering people that want os x to be on pc, the smart part is they don't have to counter the negative part where the os is not compatible with X hardware. Microsoft is having nightmare because of this variate hardware.

 

and more... since i used os x tiger, I have bought my self a powerbook g4. now thats marketing.

To true! I'm on my way to go pick up my SECOND G4 this time a dual with all the bells and whistles! If it wasn't for all my Hacks i wouldn't even have thought about it!

 

 

StiCMAN

 

i think a company as big as apple are smart. as some of you saying, they probably just deliberately make it "able" for us to try mac os x. it's like answering people that want os x to be on pc, the smart part is they don't have to counter the negative part where the os is not compatible with X hardware. Microsoft is having nightmare because of this variate hardware.

 

and more... since i used os x tiger, I have bought my self a powerbook g4. now thats marketing.

I think the biggest think hackintosh gives outside of exposure... is apps. Lots of linux apps that may never come over native to OSX if it wasn't for hackintoshes. These apps spawn sever REAL sales. Thus looking the other way makes money.

 

If apple REALLY wanted to stop this, they could. Just security updates tied to the right kext and bammo.

 

Instead they make it hard enough that the average 99.5% wouldn't even CONSIDER IT! of that .5% less then 10% of those people get the balls to say f&*k it and go all out! The of that percent less then 15% ever get to 100% functionality.

 

So when hackintoshes account for less then .1% of your OSX out there, but can help generate an extra 1% of sale. That a plus no matter how you look at it. Without giving the farm to Dell and every end user out there.

 

Very clever apple, kudos steve jobs.

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