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Started by Mac, Jun 09, 2010, 18:06:09

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Mike

I can assure you that it is not legal to run OSX on non-Apple products. There was a huge lawsuit recently over a company that was selling it;s own intel-based machines shipped with OSX and Apple took them to court and won.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Mike

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Mac

QuoteI can assure you that it is not legal to run OSX on non-Apple products

Not according to their legal blurb, the product only has to be branded, it dosent have to be Apple Hardware, Just have their sticker on.

Quote2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions.
A. Single Use License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software,
you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time.

Mac.

Mike

How many people apart from Apple produce Apple branded products?

:o
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan