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Hackintoshes did not necessarily steal MacOS, you could buy legit copies of MacOS.
by greenhorn123 4y ago
Hackintoshes did not necessarily steal MacOS, you could buy legit copies of MacOS.
- jaywalk 4y agoYou could purchase a DVD containing MacOS, but calling them "legit" (as far as installing on a Hackintosh) is a stretch. You're paying for the physical disc, not a license to the OS. The only way to get a license to use MacOS is to purchase a Mac.
- Cockbrand 4y agoTo elaborate on this: Apple's license only permits installing Max OS X/OS X/macOS on "Apple branded" computers, so it's technically illegal to install it on Hackintoshes, no matter whether you bought the OS or not.
- tadfisher 4y agoYou could replace the innards of a PowerMac or whatnot with a modern system, and it would still be "Apple-branded".
- actually_a_dog 4y agoYou still can: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion https://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion Even if they stop selling it on the App Store, you can still buy a fully licensed copy of OSX buy picking up an older Mac Mini.
- secondcoming 4y agoI have a Snow Leopard CD somewhere
- BoxOfRain 4y agoIt's just occurred to me that Apple's move away from the x86 platform has pretty much signed the death warrant of the Hackintosh.
- nunez 4y agoThe Hackintosh has been de facto dead for years, yeah. It's going to be worse now that they are moving to their super proprietary ARM stack