Apple will stop at nothing to keep you from doing exactly what you're trying to do if they don't want you to. They have a bottom line vested interest in keeping anyone and everyone from installing OS X on hardware they deem inappropriate. And why not, it's their hardware they're selling and their software to boot. (ok, cheap pun!)

Sounds reasonable...you won't see MS Access running on a Mac (natively). Works for Microsoft. Works for Apple.

Ow my brain.

I would personally be too scared to run a pirated operating system. This is something for people with way too much time on their hands, and a lack of moral fortitude.

I personally don't steal, Chris Barylick's girlfiend obliviously doesn't share my opinions on morality, but that doesn't make her right by any stretch of the imagination. If I did steal stuff I surely wouldn't brag about on my blog, if my girlfiend stole stuff I wouldn't write an article on TMO about it.

Thieves suck and drive the price up for those of us who don't steal.

I'm still trying to figure out what the point of this page is. I have yet to piece together the seemingly random collection of paragraphs into a meaningful article. Maybe I'm just having trouble with the big vocabulary words.

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Biff wrote:
Ow my brain.

lol thats funny

The question is how many are PC users that have never touched a Mac or played with OS X? I would guess quite a few.

Personally I'm not too worried, When the final release comes out the fun will end and these users will either get a Mac (actually a Mactel) or go back to Windows. The current version will be something like running Win 95 - let em do it if they want.

What would be interesting though would be to find out how fast these PC boxes are compared to XP. I would like to see some comparisons, but I doubt if MS wants to - it just adds pressure to keep Longhorn (I still prefer that name) "robust".

Actually, I found the article clear in its purpose and content. Mr Barylick appears to have some command of the English language. Makes a nice change.

The headline, however, was misleading.

I think it would be unbelievably devious for Apple to look aside as this goes on. As you can read, most users won't bother to wade through installing OS X on a non-Apple machine (nor would I for a mission-critical machine). That leaves the hard-core PC and Linux enthusiasts and the white-box builders, the exact market that would be last to purchase a machine from Apple. If they get a taste of OS X, it might be enough to make them consider buying a legit machine, especially given Apple's lack of authorization and their aggressive update schedule.

Bottom line - I don't see much downside, and only a potential increase in user base. Not a bad plan at all.

set up a system so that any pirated copies of OS X on intel hardware that don't have the proper hardware module on their mother board get shredded when they run software update...

Grow a spine! Please. While I don't condone theft your reaction here is a bit over the top dude. Nerds will be nerds. I tend to think that someone doing what she's doing will drive the market forward, not back. No harm done IMHO. This thing is alpha... way alpha!

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Grow a spine! Please. While I don't condone theft your reaction here is a bit over the top dude. Nerds will be nerds. I tend to think that someone doing what she's doing will drive the market forward, not back. No harm done IMHO. This thing is alpha... way alpha!

Agreed. This is the type of thing that might run on TechTV for the hard-core Unix/Linux/do it yourself solar-death ray crowd. Apple should and will discourage it, but it will in no way negatively impact Apple.

P.S. yes, the solar death ray IS a real thing:

www.solardeathray.com

One of the primary drivers for people trying to get OS X running on non-Apple Intel hardware is the lack of form factors within Apple's products.

Intel has had sub notebooks for years. I personally carry around one of the sub-sub-notebook Sony Vaios (PCG-TR1A) - and I wouldn't trade it for a 12" powerbook for the world. Apple does not currently have, nor as far as I know ever plan to have, hardware that supports this not so niche market.

As part of the OSx86project.org pages, you'll find many individuals contributing time and effort to write kernel drivers for various hardware (wireless cards seem to be the prevalent ones) - you don't think Apple's going to take advantage of this?