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Nope, the EFI-X v1.1 with the latest firmware supports Snow Leopard (http://forum.efi-x.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=4564).

I am not sure how the device being "external" or "internal" matters in terms of its legality.. The device emulates EFI, and tricks MacOS into thinking it's booting off Apple's hardware.
I was not speaking to its legality. I saw nowhere on their website that actually advertising something that Apple would find that would violate their SLA. As many of us have said before EFI booting is not enough.

Their website was practically unusable for me anyway - I couldn't get anything useful from them which is why I had to go to other sources.

That's nothing but posturing on their behalf. They say these things to create an illusion that the purpose of their product is something beyond "Hackintoshing". Obviously hoping this will keep them under the radar of Apple's legal. However, every single customer who purchased their product did so with a sole purpose of building Hackintosh.

I can sell bolt cutters legally as long as I do not encourage people to use them to commit burglary. It matters not if the customers use them for burglary purposes - its intent of the product maker.

I can say this, if their CEO is posturing and its found that he lied, thatn the hurt is going to be much worse.

If their website demonstrates way to bypass Apple's SMC check (if that indeed is what Apple solely looks for), then Apple can go after them. It takes a long while to go after companies like this and Apple probbaly wants to kill Psystar first that go after these guys. I don't know. What Apple Legal does is their own decision making and is no indication that they endorse this product (I am guessing the answer is no) nor does the absence of a lawsuit prove anything regarding illegality.

Again, you need to look more closely and read their support forums (you need to register on their website to be able to do that). As I said, they don't want to make their real purpose for existence too obvious, but if you dig a bit deeper - making a Hackintosh is the only reason for their product.

I have no real interest in giving them any of my information if there is any risk of a lawsuit given their questionable activity. Sorry, I don;t trust them enough to do that so I will have to take you at your will.

The only conclusion that we can draw is that they are just another commercialized effort to allegedly provide and promote hackintoshing that has yet to be sued by Apple Legal. I would rather wait and see an official comment from Apple on this matter (like from a court house), before we can draw any conclusions about its legality or non legality.
 
I would rather wait and see an official comment from Apple on this matter (like from a court house), before we can draw any conclusions about its legality or non legality.

I wasn't suggesting we draw any conclusion about their legality/illegality. Just pointing out the fact that ASEM/EFI-X has been making money off Hackintosh scene for several years.. and without any known legal consequences thus far (again NOT suggesting this will never change).

Psystar could have been much more successful if they similarly stayed "under the radar", rather than being a blatant in-your-face Hackintosh re-seller.
 
I wasn't suggesting we draw any conclusion about their legality/illegality. Just pointing out the fact that ASEM/EFI-X has been making money off Hackintosh scene for several years.. and without any known legal consequences thus far (again NOT suggesting this will never change).

Sorry, I never meant to imply that you were. Right now I am doing the virtual equivalent of shrugging my shoulders and saying "i dunno" about this. I don't know enough about what they are doing to draw a good enough conclusions.

Psystar could have been much more successful if they similarly stayed "under the radar", rather than being a blatant in-your-face Hackintosh re-seller.
Possibly, Thogh we have to remember that Psysatr is US based - and it looks like Art Studios Entertainment Media Co., Ltd. may not be.

I can say this - the forums that supposedly blatantly promote hackintoshing do not seem to be affiliated with the company (based on this little tidbit):
EFi-X™ Users Forums is not affiliated with or endorsed by Art Studios Entertainment Media or any of its employees, business partners, distributors, or affiliates. Employees, business partners, distributors, or affiliates of Art Studios Entertainment Media who register on these forums agree to not hold any of the users, moderators, or administrators of this forum responsible for any of the information posted on this discussion forum or any damages resulting from the aforementioned information.

Emphasis mine. Weather that is true or not is up for debate, but if their website owners do not advertise or promote the act and the only areas that promotes the product for unintended uses is not associated with the company, than to me unless something is proven different sounds like trying to call a bolt cutter manufacturer as an accomplice to a burglary since his tool can be used to cut locks. I cnnot determine this since the website is so screwy.
 
I can say this - the forums that supposedly blatantly promote hackintoshing do not seem to be affiliated with the company (based on this little tidbit):

Emphasis mine. Weather that is true or not is up for debate, but if their website owners do not advertise or promote the act and the only areas that promotes the product for unintended uses is not associated with the company, than to me unless something is proven different sounds like trying to call a bolt cutter manufacturer as an accomplice to a burglary since his tool can be used to cut locks. I cnnot determine this since the website is so screwy.

That's a 3rd-party hosted forum. Here's the ASEM hosted support forum I was referring to:

http://forum.efi-x.com/

You can see a lot of references to MacOS even without registering.
 
That's a 3rd-party hosted forum. Here's the ASEM hosted support forum I was referring to:

http://forum.efi-x.com/

You can see a lot of references to MacOS even without registering.
I don't see any instructions on how to bypass OSX's SMC check and I cannot get very deep anyway - the FAQ's for example are totally blocked. I still cannot guage intent by the company from there - weather they are providing means or just supporting the end result.
 
I don't see any instructions on how to bypass OSX's SMC check and I cannot get very deep anyway - the FAQ's for example are totally blocked. I still cannot guage intent by the company from there - weather they are providing means or just supporting the end result.

I am not sure what's unclear to you here.. The public section of ASEM forums has all sorts of mentions and instructions on how to install MacOS. Their publicly posted manual has a whole chapter on installing MacOS. They provide both the means to install MacOS on un-authorized hardware, and post-install support.

No, they don't provide explicit instructions on how to bypass SMC check - neither does Psystar, Chameleon or any other "vanilla" bootloader solutions. All the necessary SMC check bypassing happens in the background by the built-in bootloader. It would be up to Apple to decrypt their code and prove how whatever they are doing violates Apple EULA, DMCA or whatever else.
 
Best mobile Hackintosh setup

Just curious, does anyone have a favorite Netbook or NetTop for a Hackintosh,
I'm curious to try doing it for fun.

Also, is it possible to duel boot one, for Snow Leopard and Windows 7 (Starter Edition) or Ubuntu ?
 
Does DELL, Acer or Samsung try to prohibit you from installing Linux or Mac OS on their macihnes? No Apple does.

What?

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing OS X on any Mac ever?

Let's not even start with obsolescence. That's not the argument here.

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing Linux on any Mac ever?

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing Windows on any Mac ever?

Were you trying to say that Apple prevents people from installing OS X on to Acer's, Dell's, and Samsung's? Was that what you were after? And your point? Were you saying this was good or bad?
 
The dell mini9 is the easiest NetBook hackintosh.

Thanks, Also, I'm not very savvy when it comes to knowing how to compare the Atom processors and the Graphics chip sets in these, especially compared with other (presumably more powerful) mobile processors like the Core Duo, Mobile graphics chip sets etc...

I guess if I were going to do a netbook hackintosh I'd want one that could browse the net, video chat in iChat, Watch You Tube and maybe online TV shows (Line nbc.com, etc...), do office stuff like Word/Excel Pages/Numbers/Keynote.
 
What?

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing OS X on any Mac ever?

Let's not even start with obsolescence. That's not the argument here.

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing Linux on any Mac ever?

When has Apple prevented anyone from installing Windows on any Mac ever?

Were you trying to say that Apple prevents people from installing OS X on to Acer's, Dell's, and Samsung's? Was that what you were after? And your point? Were you saying this was good or bad?

All of your points are valid with the biggest caveat being technical requirements of the relevant operating systems. Outside of that the poster you responds you neglect to point out is that Dell, HP, Lennovo, etc - do not make and develop their own operating system - they resell Windows - that’s their business. Apple’s business model is very different.
 
How many times do we have to say it?

Apple went down this road ages ago, and got absolutely slaughtered (almost went under). Why the hell would they do it again?

Don't you remember how bad os8 and os9 were as well as the ugly machines that apple itself were putting out then.
 
Thanks, Also, I'm not very savvy when it comes to knowing how to compare the Atom processors and the Graphics chip sets in these, especially compared with other (presumably more powerful) mobile processors like the Core Duo, Mobile graphics chip sets etc...

I guess if I were going to do a netbook hackintosh I'd want one that could browse the net, video chat in iChat, Watch You Tube and maybe online TV shows (Line nbc.com, etc...), do office stuff like Word/Excel Pages/Numbers/Keynote.

All you need to know for turning a 9 into a hackintosh. (leopard) The 10v works apparently.

http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

Dont know about snow leopard. (I wouldn't use SL yet anyway)
 
All you need to know for turning a 9 into a hackintosh. (leopard) The 10v works apparently.

http://gizmodo.com/5156903/how-to-hackintosh-a-dell-mini-9-into-the-ultimate-os-x-netbook

Dont know about snow leopard. (I wouldn't use SL yet anyway)

Yeah... Figures you'd say YouTube...
Right in there with all the other kids he he...
I think it's cool that these idiots try to achieve the Mac experience with a PC...
Just poor ol' sorry asses that dream an untouchable dream he he...
I just did a search for it and It's already on the torrent sites. Now they can really ******** themselves into believing they can have a Mac for 50 bucks...
What a bunch of kids! LOL!!!
 
All that Psystar needs to do is remove all MacOS pre-loaded systems from their store offerings. And just stick to selling bare-bones (but MacOS-ready) systems and Rebel-EFI. It would then be up to the Psystar customers to load MacOS with their own purchased MacOS DVD.

By doing that, they push the responsibility for breaking the Apple EULA onto the end user.. and probably insulate themselves from Apple legal action.

Apple listed in its court case about ten or so different complaints against Psystar. The two complaints that Psystar cannot possibly avoid are contributory copyright infringement and DMCA violation.

If running MacOS X (technically, ignoring the legality) were only a matter of compatibility, then making a compatible computer would be legal. But that is not the case. MacOS X contains measures that actively prevent MacOS X from running on a non-Macintosh computer, and getting around that is a DMCA violation.
 
Yeah... Figures you'd say YouTube...
Right in there with all the other kids he he...
I think it's cool that these idiots try to achieve the Mac experience with a PC...
Just poor ol' sorry asses that dream an untouchable dream he he...
I just did a search for it and It's already on the torrent sites. Now they can really ******** themselves into believing they can have a Mac for 50 bucks...
What a bunch of kids! LOL!!!

Umm, what are you on about. Youtube?
 
Apple listed in its court MacOS X contains measures that actively prevent MacOS X from running on a non-Macintosh computer, and getting around that is a DMCA violation.

lexmark tried the same crap with the DMCA to lock out 3rd party ink and they lost the case.
 
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