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Run Mac OS X On Non-Apple Hardware, With a Dongle
An anonymous reader points out Gizmodo's review of a USB dongle, made by a company called Efix, which allows for an effort-free transformation of a non-Apple computer into one that runs Mac OS X. According to the reviewer, the transformation is perfect (aside from a few quirks he describes as "trivial"); the included screenshots sure make it seem that way, too. The dongle costs $155, and works only on a subset of PC hardware. Non-Apple machines running OS X will no doubt make Apple unhappy, though, so, the reviewer concludes, "it's understandable if you wanna approach this with caution."
I find it a bit weird that so many people bitch a blue streak all day long about how much "Apple sucks"until they have a chance to run OS X on a PC. Then it's like "kewl dewd, I can't wait to do that!". What's up with that?
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Ahhh, '-1, Troll'. I seem to have hit a Slashdot nerve - I guess someone just doesn't like the basic truth. Get it through your heads - we are not supporting your hacked software for you, you chose that route so you can live with it. Maybe JaS will support you...
Watch this post hit the bottom so fast you could probably hear it break the sound barrier. But then, I'm really past caring about having to placate the Slashdot mindset, I'd rather share my actual experience rather than some utopian fantasy that some members seem to live in.
The vast majority of hackintoshes use pirated software, its a fact. One you may not like, but thats OK. Those of us who actually paid for the software don't want to spend *our* free time on IRC supporting you and your poor choices.
Could you provide an example scenario where it would be preferable to keep pure GUI applications running in the background when any way of interacting with that program is removed
You are using a 16MB Mac Performa 630 and it takes 3 minutes to start Netscape. Also if you close the app and try to reopen it, you get an out-of-memory error due to the shitty memory manager. Also your disk cache is only 128K.
In other words it's mostly a legacy of the old MacOS that traditional Mac users are comfortable with.
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