I want to buy a quad-core 13" cMBP with Iris Pro

[Dalton63841]

In Canada and US, violation of copyright and terms governed in an EULA is a crime. On top, illegally downloading hacked copies of OS X x86 from strange websites is a form of piracy.

Breaking the EULA is enforceable by law enforcement. It is illegal. I am sure your local PD would like to also know about the other things you find to be "perfectly legal".

Besides, there is not a single laptop (not desktop) that has comparable build quality and battery life that can run OS X. I would not recommend anyone to illegally run OS X on plastic computers with battery life in the minutes and more bugs than a rainforest.

It's obvious you've not ACTUALLY worked with a hackintosh. At least not in the last 4 years. Also, http://www.techspot.com/news/48161-...ement-is-not-criminal-federal-court-says.html. No one said anything about pirating hacked together osx distro's. Any decent hackintosh involves a paid for copy of retail OS X.

 

[sarthak]

It's obvious you've not ACTUALLY worked with a hackintosh. At least not in the last 4 years. Also, http://www.techspot.com/news/48161-...ement-is-not-criminal-federal-court-says.html. No one said anything about pirating hacked together osx distro's. Any decent hackintosh involves a paid for copy of retail OS X.

You might want to actually read the article before you post links to it. That involves people stealing customer data from a web database. They ruled violating TOS on websites was not an offence. However, it can violate the computer abuse and fraud act (1984).

If you want to talk about shrink-wrap license enforceability, then take a look at ProCD v. Zeidenberg where a student was sued for taking contents of a disc and uploading it and distributing it via an online paid database. There are even more instances of this including Microsoft v. Harmony Computers.

Licenses can be upheld as contracts between the company and an individual. There are dozens of examples of such scenarios. Breaking EULA or software licensing terms is completely different from breaking a websites TOS agreement. People break website TOS all the time, including the infamous, Megaupload scenario. Massive piracy and illegal software distribution took place due to consumers breaking the TOS and sharing illegal files and despite that, the company was to blame for poorly enforcing their TOS.

Many can even argue it violates DMCA. Just because Apple is not suing consumers doesn't make it legal. Apple is not your typical software giant to go after consumers for millions of dollars. Because they aren't enforcing it, doesn't make it LEGAL.

If you are not pirating or distributing the software you are still breaking the stated conditions in the end user license agreement. Running Apple software on non-Apple hardware is a violation of EULA and it is a crime. Once again, because it is not enforced it doesn't make it legal. In many of the aforementioned scenarios, the clients payed for the software and acquired it legally but violated the EULA and were held liable for their actions.

 

[cube]

With 3 USB ports?

That's an inescapable requirement for the Thinkpads.