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You can have a 32GB i7 running OS X for iOS or native app development for less than $1000. UPDATE: Oh yeah, you can upgrade the various components too.
by mountaineer22 10y ago
You can have a 32GB i7 running OS X for iOS or native app development for less than $1000.
UPDATE:
Oh yeah, you can upgrade the various components too.
- op00to 10y agoHow much do you need to put towards an attorney retainer for fighting the copyright infringement lawsuit Apple can bring against you? Does that count toward the less than $1000 price tag?
- mountaineer22 10y agoPlease explain?
- op00to 10y agoThe only way to get a license for a modern MacOS is to purchase a mac. The license is nontransferrable, forever attached to the specific system purchased. It is a violation of the EULA and most likely Apple's copyright to install MacOS on systems that are not entitled for the OS, which is every system that's not a Mac. In other words, you're violating Apples copyright by running MacOS on a Hackintosh, and Apple is well within their rights to sue you for damages. Defending these types of lawsuits are expensive.
- drinchev 10y agoTechnically speaking if I have a Mac mini and I plug 8 more gigs of non-apple RAM or another hard-disk I'm violating their EULA. IMHO they did the copyright, because they don't want someone to put a stamp "MacOS X - tested" or something on their hardware.
- op00to 10y agoI don't believe your assertion that upgrading Macs breaks the EULA. Can you explain this statement? Does Apple really document how to break their EULA on their website: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205041
- mountaineer22 10y agoI saw this from your link: "Removing or installing memory You should not manually upgrade or replace the memory in these Mac mini models. Instead, contact an Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Retail Store to install memory for you."
- op00to 10y agoYes. Upgrading the memory on some older Minis requires you basically disassembling the entire machine. I've done it. It's not brain surgery, but it's also not as easy as turning the little circle thing on other Minis. Nowhere does it say it violates any license agreements, just that Apple doesn't suggest you do it.
- drinchev 10y agoPrecisely. So how do you explain Hackintosh then? If I upgrade the CPU of a Mac Pro, I am obviously running OS X on a non-apple hardware. Or the other way around. If I take the HDD of a MacBook Pro and put it on my Hackintosh, am I violating the EULA? So I think the line is so thin and you can argue about anything on that topic.
- aptwebapps 10y agoBreaking your OS's EULA is not the same as violating copyright. Not even close.
- adamors 10y agoYou are spreading misinformation. EULA is completely different from copyright and in a lot of countries EULAs are not enforceable.
- op00to 10y agoOh - I forgot to add, the $150,000 statutory damages for copyright infringement if Apple decides to make an example of you. Might want to put a few hundred $k away just in case.
- CPLX 10y agoThis is patent nonsense.
- Hydraulix989 10y agoWhich doesn't prevent them from still being bullies (I'm assuming patent was a double entendre?).
- extra88 10y agoOh please, Apple has never gone after a user for making a Hackintosh for themselves. Contract law, due to the user not abiding by the license agreement, is more relevant than copyright infringement. Apple gives the OS away freely and there's no copying act that you do for yourself that would be infringing (e.g. copy the OS to a Mackintosh's drive and you're still okay), it's only the use of the OS which is a problem and that's not a copyright problem, it's a license problem.