So Apple prevents MAC OS from running on anything but on MAC hardware, wise thing to do. This forces hardware sales up since you have to buy a MAC to run the MAC OS. If MAC ran on any x86 why buy mac hardware? and if you have hacked copies Apple wouldnt make a dime,,, bye bye mac... DAS ES NO GOOD. The good thing for Apple (and MS) is if MS makes a windows version that runs on IBM or MAC. Now if MAC hardware is "better" then IBM and you need to run windows software you can just buy a mac. This is good for MS because it can move its market into the mac world and make Mac Windows software. Mac might see a dip in OS sales but im sure hardware sales would boost. The day I can buy an AMD based system that can run WIN, MAC, and Linux will be the happiest day in my life. Dream machine-> Quad core AMD running +2 TB of RAID QUAD video array 16GB of RAM running Linux and having virtual MAC/Windows.... *druels*
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So Apple prevents MAC OS from running on anything but on MAC hardware, wise thing to do. This forces hardware sales up since you have to buy a MAC to run the MAC OS. If MAC ran on any x86 why buy mac hardware? and if you have hacked copies Apple wouldnt make a dime,,, bye bye mac... DAS ES NO GOOD. The good thing for Apple (and MS) is if MS makes a windows version that runs on IBM or MAC. Now if MAC hardware is "better" then IBM and you need to run windows software you can just buy a mac. This is good for MS because it can move its market into the mac world and make Mac Windows software. Mac might see a dip in OS sales but im sure hardware sales would boost. The day I can buy an AMD based system that can run WIN, MAC, and Linux will be the happiest day in my life. Dream machine-> Quad core AMD running +2 TB of RAID QUAD video array 16GB of RAM running Linux and having virtual MAC/Windows.... *druels*