View Single Post
  #4   (View Single Post)  
Old 12th November 2008
nfries88's Avatar
nfries88 nfries88 is offline
Port Guard
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 24
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ninjatux View Post
Installing Mac OS X on a non-Mac is a violation of the license agreement. Apart from the obvious capitalistic reasons, Mac OS X remains tied to Mac hardware because the hardware has very refined support. By using it on non-Mac hardware, you're introducing variables and bugs that have already been solved for Macs. Mac OS X is essentially a very optimized Unix that relives the old days of Unix where there was a Unix for each architecture and none of them were very interoperable.
Okay, thanks for that tidbit too. I have friends using "hackintoshes" just fine, but I'm not in a position where I can be doing questionably legal things so I guess I'll have to buy a Mac computer when I get the funds.
Reply With Quote