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The Hackintosh Guide
An anonymous reader writes "A 'Hackintosh' is a computer that runs Apple's OS X operating system on non-Apple hardware. This has been possible since Apple's switch from IBM's PowerPC processors to Intel processors a few years ago. Until recently, building a PC-based Mac was something done only by hard-core hackers and technophiles, but in the last few months, building a Hackintosh PC has become much easier. Benchmark Reviews looks at what it's possible to do with PC hardware and the Mac Snow Leopard OS today, and the pros and cons of building a Hackintosh computer system over purchasing a supported Apple Mac Pro."
A supposedly intelligent person claimed that blacks are at least as intelligent as whites because they are so ?innovative.? His example was that blacks would take an old steel oil-drum (which whites considered to be rubbish) and turn it into something useful ? a steel drum. Leaving aside whether or not a steel-drum band of muds is, in any way, shape or form, ?useful,? let?s look at his argument.
The white man had made the steel oil-drum as a means of transporting oil around the world. This involved creating an industrial technology, and developing mining industry to a point where oil wells could be sunk in the North Sea (or Gulf of Mexico), and crude oil successfully removed. Then a world-wide trading network had to be established. Let us gloss over the need for international economic transactions, international credit and banking, electronic money transfers, telephonic and satellite communications, and the stable economies and governments needed to make this possible.
Instead, let?s look at the need to produce oil tankers to transport the oil. The need for computers to navigate the ships, the level of technology needed to produce the ships, the schools needed to educate those who will serve on the ships, the engineering skills and training for those making them.
Let us now think about the products kept going by the oil. The plastics, the chemicals, the cars, and so on. And all this on a world-wide scale, over generations. And we haven?t even touched on road and rail systems, intensive farming and refrigeration to feed those in the industrialised cities, the factories, the building trade, power generation, written and computerised record keeping, or a thousand and one other things, all associated with the world oil production and trade.
And of all this, the oil drum is a minor by-product, a practical but simple and fairly primitive form of storage whilst in temporary transit.
And if, by some chance or accident, one of these oil drums washes up on the shore of dusky Africa, what do the native inhabitants do? Use it in their own oil industry? No. Use it as a spring-board towards future development? No. They turn it upside-down and hit it with sticks! Call me pedantic, but that doesn?t make them my equal. Not one of the dozens of items I listed above has appeared in Africa, ever. Not even writing. A continent surrounded by ocean, watered by massive lakes and rivers, and the black natives never dreamt a sail. Thousands of miles of flat grasslands, and they never fashioned a wheel, nor domesticated animals. Surrounded by stone, they never constructed a building better than a hut. Acres of diamonds and the world?s largest gold fields, and they never glanced at them until shown their beauty by white men. And all this for tens of thousands of years, thousands of generations living with no change, no progress. But they are our "equal" or so the brainwashed politically correct morons would have you believe.
AV performance? I get better performance out of AirVideo running in a single CPU VM (WinXP) than I do from a dual core Mac running on bare metal.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
The official name of the country of Mexico is Estados Unidos Mexicanos. or Mexico for short.
The official name of the country of US is United States of America. or America for short.
The official name of the country of Brazil is Republica Federativa do Brasil. or Brazil for short.
The official name of the country of Canada is....Canada.
Would the farking Canadians that still can't get over the fact that USAians are called americans and no one else get over themselves. And yes, I'm referring to Canadians because they are the only ones that get their knickers in a twist over this,
Why, in the name of all that is holy, would you want to do that? If you're a bit of a wary fairy, it's not such a big deal. Your colleagues all suspect it. Your friends all know. And as for your mom, she's known since you were three years old.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Please list in detail why the FTC should be involved.
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I see. Then to FTC has a lot to do. Starting with making sure that all car spare parts fit every similar sized car. If they finished with that in 2210 they might find time for OS X compatibility.
What is unfair, of course, is that it is allowed to run Windows on a Mac, while it is not allowed to run OSX on a PC. Time for the FTC to look into this, I would suggest.
First of all, you can run OS X on a number of different platforms via virtualization. VirtualBox is just one software. Second of all Apple has the right to dictate what hardware runs with their software. If you think that Apple has done something wrong, then you need to inform the FTC about
virtually all Unix vendors:
some mobile device makers:
in fact many, many hardware/software makers have this arrangement. So unless all these companies are violating rules for decades, there probably isn't anything for you to report.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
I fail to see how that ruling has any connection to running OS X on non-Apple branded hardware at all. If Apple was preventing you from running an OS other than OS X on Apple hardware then I could see it. On the other hand this article seems to be quite applicable.
Moderation is not supposed to be used as an indicator of agreement.
Almost all of the OS/Hardware pairings you reference are necessary because of proprietary hardware solutions (see the references toward the top above to Amiga).
You can run lots of different software on the hardware that is listed above. For example, even IBM sells Linux on their machines. The "necessary" part is BS. It's a matter of optimization and support. If IBM doesn't want AIX not to run on non-IBM machines, that's their right. IBM (and HP) will support Linux on their hardware. As for mobile devices, they pretty much all use ARM so your argument is very weak.
Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
First of all you are confusing two different issues. Apple has allowed hobbyists to install OS X as long hobbyists realize that they get no support. It's called Fair Use. The problem for Psystar is that copyright law specifically says only the copyright holder can permit modification and redistribution which Psystar did not get permission before they created a business whose sole purpose was to infringe on Apple's copyrights.
Second of all, jailbreaking is only referring to iOS which applies to the mobile devices not their computers. Apple considers their mobile devices as appliances and locked down. This article is about their computers.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Well that would be the second best. The best would be to just die.
Overpriced junk? So if you bought the exact same components from your local shop and made a "normal PC" with them, as there already are a few billions of, it wouldn't be junk but magically "great hardware"? Something is very wrong with your logic.
FTC should be involved whenever (paying) consumers are being held back by artificial means.
I think you misunderstand what purpose the FTC serves.
You are allowed to run OS X on PCs via virtualization. You are also allowed to build a hackintosh as long as you understand that you will get no support from Apple. I don't see what there is to complain.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.