osx on a pc

[dukebound85]

Don't worry it doesn't makes sense to me either sometimes. I was kinda upset how a user review of Leopard who clearly download it (pirated) was allowed to make it on the front page. Sometimes things just don't add up 🙁

haha yea i was surprised at that as well. hopefully we will get a good answer to this question.

i dont know why i care too much as i dont even own a pc lol, but the question does intrigue me when other things similar are allowed

 

[dpaanlka]

maybe there's a forum there too that likes to discuss these issues

There are a whole lot of them, actually.

But here it is, in a nutshell...

Mac OS X is designed to work ONLY with the hardware found in computers built by Apple. Almost all PCs have some amount of hardware in them that is not found in any Macintosh. This can be video, sound, networking, drive controllers, basically anything you can think of. There isn't just one universal set of hardware found in all Macs and PCs, and now that Mac OS X runs on Intel processors it doesn't mean it will happily run on any PC you may have lying around.

Installing Mac OS X on a PC requires you first to spend a huge amount of time just getting the damn thing to boot and install. Afterwards, you have to spend hours and hours hunting down drivers and hacking away at different bits of the system trying to figure out why some obscure piece of hardware you have isn't working at all. In most cases, you'll never ever find a solution, and will have to settle for a PC that is only partially working. Next, every time a software update comes, you have to wait around for a hacked version that will not break everything, or hack it yourself. Any time you apply any updates or install new software, you have to pray to god that your system boots up again. And Mac OS X on a PC seems to have a markedly higher frequency of kernel panics, random freezes, and beech balls than an authentic Mac.

So in conclusion, not only is it against the EULA, against MacRumors, and morally unsavory, it is also a tremendous amount of constant effort that never results in 100% satisfactory mac-like operation. It is completely not worth it at all.

If that isn't good enough for you, then you really aught to go to Google.

 

[Eric Piercey]

Breaking a EULA isn't illegal.

Hacking the iPhone and Touch are against the EULA and oddly those even have forum sections 😀

Excellent point. Score.

edit.. now having read the entire thread I'm sure his spirits are crushed, but he still made a good point. Holier than thou attitudes are so annoying- and people do hack their phones without a moments hesitation- heck just to do it. Making the stand that he should be brushed off based on EULA violations is weak. I'm not saying there "should be" schematics for building a hackintosh, although that would be awesome; only that unless the jailbreak type threads are all removed (which would suck) he shouldn't be getting so much flak.