I'm so cool!

[Bunford]

"non apple labeled hardware"...

Put an apple sticker on it, and it's apple labeled imo...

Decals already of the way from eBay to hide my Dell logos

[thisisian]

How easy was it to upgrade the CPU in that Dell?

[Sherlock Ohms]

The Mac OS X EULA says something like "thou shalt not install OS X on non-Apple-labeled hardware".
Anyway is a little bit pointless to do it because you put the stability of the Macos at risk

But is totally legal to run Windows XP on a Mac (just to make a good joke i think)

And yes, i think this is not the place to talk about "gray areas" on fair use of software..

Aye- and I believe there are a number of lawsuits in the work claiming it's not legal for Apple to make that restriction - the argument being that if you buy the s/w you can do what the fuck you want with it.

[Bunford]

Aye- and I believe there are a number of lawsuits in the work claiming it's not legal for Apple to make that restriction - the argument being that if you buy the s/w you can do what the fuck you want with it.

Couldn't have put it better myself

Seriously though, I bought the Snow Leopard 10.6 retail disc from Cardiff's Apple store so surely I can install it on whatever I want?!

It's like when I bought Novation Launchpad, opened it up and if I found a note in there saying it's illegal for me to use it with anything but Ableton. Not quite the same granted, but you get the idea.

I think Apple may just be worrying a tad at how people have foudn a way to install retail OSX on a non-Apple branded computer. Not sure why they're freaking out though. I say work with it, like Windows have, and increase compatability. If they did that and gave everyone a genuine Windows competitor across all platforms, OSX would grow times infinity, though at a cost of having to reduce their computers and laptops no doubt (which is a tiny sacrifice if they can leverage Windows out of the OS driver seat and get contracts to put OSX on retail system by Packard Bell, Hewlett Packard etc).

[Bunford]

How easy was it to upgrade the CPU in that Dell?

It was fiddly and a bit of a pain but easy enough if you have the patience.

I just followed this.

[tombruton69]

apple say that in there contract. However it is not legally binding in any way in the uk.
there are companies selling hackintoshs. they aint taken them to court. well in the uk.

IOS is more stable due to its hard ware restriction as apple have only got to cater for about 50 to 100 machine specs, where as windows has to cater for tens if not hundreds of thousands.

that being said if you have good kex files you should not have any stability issues. if i was going to get a macbook today i would get a second hand one the new ones have got serious issues atm

[tekki]

Now tell me that's not cool and unique!

Not cool and not unique!

PHAAAA! No WAY!
Nice one, bro'!





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[deevey]

My brother in law has a macbook running windows xp, and i think is the coolest computer joke !!

I went into a meeting to demo an IT security product armed with a macbook 13' and VMware running one Server 2008 + 4 additional Windows XP clients all fullscreen and switching between them using Spaces in OSX.

Got the contract and many "WOW" looks :P

Used to have a Lenovo s10 netbook running OSX leopard and it was damn stable... everything apart from the ethernet worked a charm... i think the new owner is still using it that way.

[Buffalo Ill]

I'd be interested in trying OSX on my Sony vaio... Any tips re: hardware drivers when switching from Win7 to OSX? I'd only be using it for audio, so stuff like ethernet/internet/bluetooth etc... won't be needed anyway.

Can you create a dual boot machine - 1 partition for Win 7, and 1 for OSX?

[JonathanBlake]

Not cool and not unique! PHAAAA! No WAY!

For a moment there I thought I was uncool - I don't get this either Tekki.