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grecy

Is this purely a marketing ploy? Surely blades are much, much better suited for this...

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Show me a blade that I can legally run OS X on.

Like this? http://i.imgur.com/GXpLIYm.jpg

I thought you could legally run OS X on VMWare - am I mistaken?

You can (per the EULA [1]) virtualise OS X on Apple hardware. VMware can run on Apple hardware.

    run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple 
    Software within virtual operating system environments on each
    Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the
    Apple Software

[1] http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX109.pdf

Thanks, I didn't know you couldn't legally visualize OS X on non-Apple hardware.

That's gotta be hurting them now they have no xServe

You can't. The terms quoted above specifically restrict it to virtualizing Mac OS X on Apple hardware.

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