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And Apple starts to be a dick, again.
hm_murdock:
I do believe that there were forum threads about where and how to get Intel builds of OS X that included torrent links, et cetera.
Just as our webmaster and admins would be responsible if someone were posting piracy and warez links here, so was OSX86. Remember that they weren't doing any reverse engineering on the system, only replacing bits with the corresponding part from Darwin, and adding a few little bits of code. I'm pretty sure that's NOT a SLA violation, as there are myriad OS X "enhancers" that use Darwin code, such as XDarwin and Darwine and Apple hasn't said anything about them in the five years that they've been around.
Also, OtherWorldComputing's XPostFacto serves a similar function to OSX86... allow OS X to run on "unsupported" hardware. I'm running 10.4.5 on an original 300MHz clamshell iBook. Remember that 10.4 "requires" a built-in FireWire port. XPF can also make OS X boot and install on totally out-there hardware. I have a Power Mac 6500 (250MHz PPC 603) which XPF can force 10.2 and older to run on. So much for "G3 required".
And Apple hasn't said anything about XPF...
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---I suppose it's impossible to "build your own mac" now that you'll need to get by the TPM-check-crap. Even though the hardware is just as easy to get, it won't run OS X unless you buy off Apple.
Shame.
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Making you buy a mac computer in order to use their operating system is kinda greedy if you ask me ... or what else can we call it ?
WMD:
--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Making you buy a mac computer in order to use their operating system is kinda greedy if you ask me ... or what else can we call it ?
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It's their business model. The OS is not expensive in-box, and the software bundle distributed with the hardware is rather generous. And they have no activation or anything like that. On top of that, they don't have to support all the hardware in the world like MS has to do with Windows, which is probably part of why OS X costs so much less than Windows.
As for building your own Mac...you could build a "Power Mac G4" for yourself, but it's not very convenient, or cheap, for that matter. The retail price of a 1.42ghz G4 is much higher than your typical 3GHz P4, and for duals...ouch.
Jack2000:
"PIRATED SOFTWARE"
ahem ... hm_murdock ... do you
even know what pirate means?
Do you know that this word is thrown around like a flag
just to make people look bad in front of lame idiot masses ?
they do not win or lose anything ...so they are not pirates :P
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: WMD ---As for building your own Mac...you could build a "Power Mac G4" for yourself, but it's not very convenient, or cheap, for that matter.
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And it's dated. Who wants to build a dated computer?
--- Quote ---The retail price of a 1.42ghz G4 is much higher than your typical 3GHz P4, and for duals...ouch.
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I build my computers to save money anyhow.
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