I never said I wanted OSX and I don't. I've used it and thought it was lousy.
As has been stated several times in this thread they stopped the cloning before because parts of the OS were hard-coded into ROMs. OSX is purely software, and completely compatible with a standard PC.
If all that is holding up Apple's business model are shakey legal grounds then I think they need to take another look at their business model.
Many people have posted about the legal value of EULAs, I'm not going to just reiterate what's already been said better than I can say it. Perhaps they legally hold ground but *I* feel they shouldn't as in cases like this they are breaking what should be user's rights.
I am not really saying that Apple is acting illegally just that some of their stipulations are empty.
I feel the need to say again that I don't want any Apple product. I feel that they are all too locked down to be worth their weight. But I do dislike the precedent they are being allowed to set.
Your personal attacks really are quite uncalled for. There's no whining here from me. And I'm certainly not jealous of anyone because I can't "afford the hardware". I'll go with the better choices, thanks.
Switching a dashboard is not just cosmetic. It has to be hooked into a lot of different components and has to be able to communicate with them. You might as well say a computer's OS is only cosmetic with your attitude.
When people buy this computer they are voting with their dollars smart guy. They'll pay for a computer that does what it does but not for a computer that Apple tells them they need.
If we're still comparing this to cars there are many companies that make their money selling pre-modified cars. Not exactly comparable here but they buy stock from company A modify it with parts from car from company B and sell it. Saleen being a popular example.
Stopping other manufacturers from shipping OSX boxes is probably not legal (I'll leave this up to the courts I suppose), and definitely shouldn't be legal. Deal with it.
Why so many people are so eager to let some asshole tell them they don't own what they buy after it's been paid for really boggles my mind.
If someone buys a Ford dash, which is used as the user interface of the vehicle's parts, and can get it to work in a Dodge. Ford cannot stop anyone from doing this, as it would be ludicrous for them to be able to. So why should Apple be able to stop people from performing the trivial task of making OSX run on a PC without the Apple-bit?
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I never said I wanted OSX and I don't. I've used it and thought it was lousy.
As has been stated several times in this thread they stopped the cloning before because parts of the OS were hard-coded into ROMs. OSX is purely software, and completely compatible with a standard PC.
If all that is holding up Apple's business model are shakey legal grounds then I think they need to take another look at their business model.
Many people have posted about the legal value of EULAs, I'm not going to just reiterate what's already been said better than I can say it. Perhaps they legally hold ground but *I* feel they shouldn't as in cases like this they are breaking what should be user's rights.
I am not really saying that Apple is acting illegally just that some of their stipulations are empty.
I feel the need to say again that I don't want any Apple product. I feel that they are all too locked down to be worth their weight. But I do dislike the precedent they are being allowed to set.
Your personal attacks really are quite uncalled for. There's no whining here from me. And I'm certainly not jealous of anyone because I can't "afford the hardware". I'll go with the better choices, thanks.
Switching a dashboard is not just cosmetic. It has to be hooked into a lot of different components and has to be able to communicate with them. You might as well say a computer's OS is only cosmetic with your attitude.
When people buy this computer they are voting with their dollars smart guy. They'll pay for a computer that does what it does but not for a computer that Apple tells them they need. If we're still comparing this to cars there are many companies that make their money selling pre-modified cars. Not exactly comparable here but they buy stock from company A modify it with parts from car from company B and sell it. Saleen being a popular example.
Stopping other manufacturers from shipping OSX boxes is probably not legal (I'll leave this up to the courts I suppose), and definitely shouldn't be legal. Deal with it.
Why so many people are so eager to let some asshole tell them they don't own what they buy after it's been paid for really boggles my mind.
If someone buys a Ford dash, which is used as the user interface of the vehicle's parts, and can get it to work in a Dodge. Ford cannot stop anyone from doing this, as it would be ludicrous for them to be able to. So why should Apple be able to stop people from performing the trivial task of making OSX run on a PC without the Apple-bit?