The niche is sort of self-limiting to a tiny group of people, so it will never be an existential threat to the sale of Apple products. Indeed. Setting up a hac

The niche is sort of self-limiting to a tiny group of people, so it will never be an existential threat to the sale of Apple products. Indeed. Setting up a hackintosh is only really feasible for people with some tech chops. In most Western countries, someone with enough technical background to set up a hackintosh machine will probably have an hourly wage where (hardware price + hourly wages x hours to setup/maintain hackintosh) >> purchase price hackintosh. Setting up and maintaining a hackintosh is just a fun technical challenge for a lot of people. Similar to how running OpenBSD on a PowerPC or SPARC is fun. Some will also use hackintosh because Apple doesn't offer the hardware that they want. Apple seems to draw a line at selling Hackintosh machines (see e.g. their lawsuit against Psystar [1]). Fully compatible, supported hackintoshes would be a threat to Apple's bottom line. --- Both me and a family member installed OS X on a HP/Dell laptop in 2007 as sort of a challenge. We both liked OS X so much that we had both bought a Mac Mini and a MacBook in weeks and have been users since then. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation