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HELP: How do I buy Snow Leopard for my PC??
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Search for Chameleon on how to install Snow Leopard with a Retail DVD.
There is still some hacking to do and you may still find that the install doesn't work but possibly worth a try.
However this is really a forum for Mac Users on Apple Kit, not the hackintosh/osx86 community which have there own forums.
There is still some hacking to do and you may still find that the install doesn't work but possibly worth a try.
However this is really a forum for Mac Users on Apple Kit, not the hackintosh/osx86 community which have there own forums.
Now what copyright infringement would that be? OH! I know.. The one where a company is selling "PC's" with OSX installed on them.
No, the one where a company sells a MODIFIED OSX without permission of the authors (copyright violation) pre-installed on a PC.
Excuse me, but even if it was wrong advice (which it was not in most cases), people took the time to read your post and answer you. You should be more polite to them. Nobody insulted you.
Actually you can technically run the retail version (don't need a custom build). You just need some additional software (since PCs still use BIOS, not EFI like Mac) and some drivers (if you have physical hardware other than what come in Macs). The actual OS itself may be used unmodified, but yes-- it's not a straightforward, pop-the-disc-in-and-install procedure.
But yes. Wrong forum for that conversation.
It's done. I bought a copy of 10.5 at my school bookstore.. they had leftover stock. I did some research on the hackint0sh and other forums about how to get the retail disc to install.. it required a second boot disc and I had to swap between the two during the installation process.. and then I had to manually find and install a bunch of drivers.. but I finally got my unmodified retail version of 10.5 running.
you will come to find that until the mods close this thread, these discussions will never stop. and when they do close it - it will begin an another thread
We're happy for you. But I'm not sure why you find the need to come back and brag after you already said you were done here since we're all a bunch of ignorant no-nothings.
Yeah, no offense, I call ******** on the whole, you called apple support and they said okay, thing.
I just got off the phone with Apple Support, and they said no, it's not in the least okay to install any flavor of MacOS on a non-Apple PC. Isn't now, or it never has been, ever.
I just got off the phone with Apple Support, and they said no, it's not in the least okay to install any flavor of MacOS on a non-Apple PC. Isn't now, or it never has been, ever.
yeah seriously. why did the op bother coming back if we are all just a bunch of "monkeys"
I this is one of those cases where "it pays to be Canadian." In the U.S., we have the "Digitial Millenium Copyright Act" (DMCA) that makes it illegal (in the U.S.) to circumvent the software controls in Mac OS X which are designed to prevent it from being installed on non-Apple hardware. In Canada, the U.S. criminal penalties of this law might not apply. I imagine the Canadian EULA still doesn't allow installation on a non-Apple, and certainly the software controls are probably still there to make it difficult to do. In your case, for purchasing a discontinued and unsupported version at full price, I guess Apple decided they would allow you to do it on your own despite the standard EULA language---but you better be sure about that!