(06-08-2013, 06:36 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]-The fact that they won't sell the OS to non-apple system manufacturers and it's illegal to install the OS on any non-apple system (not that this stops people from doing it) even though they use the same hardware as everyone else. This often forces people to use a different OS at work/home if they want to use it, which people really don't like to do. Consistency is good.
When I looked into it, I though I discovered it was only illegal in the USA, unless you hadn't actually spent £30 on a disk. Is this not so? I was considering making a dual-boot hackintosh.
Installing OS X on non-Apple hardware isn't even illegal across the entire U.S.A; some states have ruled that EULAs are not legally binding agreements, so you can void it as much as you want to. But yes, the legality of Hackintosh computers is a U.S.A specific issue if I recall correctly.
(06-09-2013, 09:16 AM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]some states have ruled that EULAs are not legally binding agreements, so you can void it as much as you want to.
Those states are obviously the ones that realise no-one has actually read and agreed to the licence agreement. (Although I've actually read a few wondering if the author got bored and put in some rubbish expecting it to never get seen. I think I've only got lucky once, though.)
Anyone got a list of these states?
All I know is a lot of companies were sued and run out of business by apple for installing macosx on their systems and selling them. If you're a user you can get away with it and they won't know. But it is clearly illegal and apple takes it seriously enough to pursue companies that do it.
OSX EULA Wrote:The grants set forth in this License do not permit you to, and you agree not to, install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.
Psystar fought the EULA and the EULA won. They went under before they could appeal but I would bet not much would've changed.
After some reading, Psystar had to modify some non-open-source code, which broke the DMCA, which is what Apple used to sue them. Modern loader methods use modified open-source code, which is, of course, perfectly all right to change, so the DMCA is fine, but not the EULA.
Basically, you can do it legally now, but Psystar couldn't because the code now used didn't exist.
I will against all of you and vote for Windows 8
Do you really want the new top-down HALO game that much?
1) Linux FTW.
2) OS X > any Windows in terms of stability. But... Windows and Linux > OS X in terms of software - there's a lot of stuff unavailable for OS X. Yes you can use wine, but sometimes it's a lot harder than in Linux (OS X specific problems). Also Apple hardware isn't really too powerful and expensive (unless we talking about Mac Pro, but still it's not the best performance for the price). Hackintosh - will work fine, if you're lucky and will be able to buy all fully compatible PC parts. But still hardware support will be very limited.
3) Windows 8 is just Win7 with brutally sodomized interface and compatibility problems. I can run the game in Kubuntu with both wine and CrossOver, but it doesn't work on my uncle's laptop with Win 8. So if you use Win - stick with Win 7.
Quote:Do you really want the new top-down HALO game that much?
Which will be hacked to run in Win7 anyway.