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Originally Posted by MrSaint
sheepdog has compiled a list of 100% compatible x86 hardware:
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...none of which will be compatible by the time the final Apple-for-Intel is released.
Don't people get it? Pirating OSX now, simply provides Apple with the exact blueprint on how to tighten up the DRM when its finally released.. on completely "non-PC" hardware. They'll control all of the slots, the bus, the chipset, the interface, and the drivers.
It only works on "normal" Intel now, because it
HAS to, in order to allow developers to make the jump. By the time its released on Apple's own hardware, you'll be working out a lot of issues to get the performance you see today. Who will write the drivers for the disk, ports, video cards? Who will support those drivers?
I find the whole thing kind of funny actually.
So lets picture this: You log onto dell.com, buy a big, bad Dell Dimension P4 machine with lots of RAM and disk to run OSX on. You pay the standard Microsoft Tax for that PC. You wipe the OS, install this pirated OSX/x86 image on your Dell, and Apple gets nothing.
So you just paid Dell for the hardware, Microsoft for the software you wiped, and all to run Apple OSX on your Dell... and not a cent went to Apple.
Do you really think this is fair? Do you really want to "stick it to Microsoft" by paying them instead of Apple? Or for that matter, buying that Dell hardware (subsidised by our friends in Redmond anyway, through cheaper volume licensing deals), instead of supporting the company who provides the OS you'll end up running anyway?
Seriously think about the implications of that before you get on your soapbox about how wonderful Apple-on-Intel is today.