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I thought they confirmed there's going to be a new Mac Pro next year?

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There will be, but, even if there wasn't, a Hackintosh might be an option for a professional-grade desktop.

Your answer to "Apple doesn't make a decent desktop computer" is "hack OS X's DRM to install it on unlocked hardware"?

There is no DRM on OS X. The only issue with Hackintoshes is drivers and hardware support.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/182218/apple_wins_court_vict...

  A federal judge has dealt a crushing blow to Mac clone 
  maker Psystar by ruling that the Florida company violated 
  Apple's copyright as well as the Digital Millennium 
  Copyright Act (DMCA) when it installed Apple's operating 
  system on Intel-based computers.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

Erm, thought all the new Macs were Intel based now?

Note the year. Apple had only recently switched to Intel.

yes, i did note the year, but how is that relevant to here and now? Since they are intel based now, surely that ruling is m00t?

Thanks for the downvote, shame I can't repay the favour.

apple transition to intel processors in 2006. article is written in 2009.

Nonsense. Of course there is DRM, it's just been thoroughly defeated by the Hackintosh community. You can't install OS X on non-Apple hardware without a hacked install disc or a hacked boot disk.

Regardless, you are missing the point. I surely wouldn't install an unsupported and unlicensed OS on any of the PCs in my business.

Adapting to an unsupported BIOS is not remotely "defeating DRM". Apple just doesn't support other firmware -- it doesn't include features deliberately meant to defeat unlicensed installs (like Windows) or any cloning (like iOS).

There's a specific check to see if it's running on an Apple system and the installer halts if it detects that it is not. It does not merely "lack support" for other systems, they are deliberately not supported. Apple (I think wisely) have not wasted their time on complicated license validation schemes, but that doesn't really change anything. As with Windows activation, it would eventually be defeated anyway.

Regardless, it's obviously unsupported, strongly discouraged by Apple, and at least one US court has found it to be illegal.

I'm not arguing that it's legal, or that Apple is thrilled with it. But DRM implies something pretty specific and (in theory) harder to defeat than an "if" statement.

I disagree.

And terms of service

As opposed to moving to Windows? Not really an option.

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