Yeah I bought a macbook (sold my compaq), and also convinced a couple of my friends and my boss. Also have music production as hobby and bought Logic Pro. So I can say it's not a bad thing, if it was apple would have adopted measures already.
I've been running OSX on a generic x86 machine for about a year (as the only OS). A self assembled intel based MB with a Celeron (yes a celeron, it's important to have SSE3, but not necessary), the most important thing is having similar hardware to original apple macs, agp is non functional, but opengl works (agp card gets recognized as pci), usb support is flacky but it essentially works, everything else functions perfectly.
What did Apple win with this? A loyal customer.
This "new hack" is old news, if anyone takes a glance at the osx86project page they will come to the conclusion that it has been working for quite some time now. What I cannot take it's this "mac user" elitism that I thought it died when Jobs returned and still remains in most user comments. The people involved are not hard-core hackers/crackers, but they accomplished something and in the end are doing a great PR/Marketing job for Apple.
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Yeah I bought a macbook (sold my compaq), and also convinced a couple of my friends and my boss. Also have music production as hobby and bought Logic Pro. So I can say it's not a bad thing, if it was apple would have adopted measures already.
What did Apple win with this? A loyal customer.
This "new hack" is old news, if anyone takes a glance at the osx86project page they will come to the conclusion that it has been working for quite some time now. What I cannot take it's this "mac user" elitism that I thought it died when Jobs returned and still remains in most user comments. The people involved are not hard-core hackers/crackers, but they accomplished something and in the end are doing a great PR/Marketing job for Apple.