What's your take on the "OSX86" project?

[Deja Q]

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I'm still happy with a proper iMac, but Apple would make a killing if they were to release OS X for non-Apple hardware. If they're able or willing; as they write their own controlled drivers for nVidia and ATi, they'd have to go through legalese with the respective video company manufacturers...

[awoke_in_2003]

1. Hey Q, just seeing this...

you have to remember that Apple is, first and foremost, a hardware company. Any software they make is for the sole purpose of getting you to buy their hardware.

[realisticphish]

3. I don't know

in terms of general software, perhaps, but their OS's are damn strong :shrug:

[awoke_in_2003]

4. true...

but the reason for the good OS is to sell more Apples.

[realisticphish]

5. point taken

[Touchdown]

2. They already tried that with the dark days of the 90s

It about killed the company.

[comtec]

6. No they didn't they allowed clones

and that's not what killed apple, it was crappy upper management.

Apple has never cottoned on to the REALITY that they are not a hardware company.

people don't by mac's because they are good hardware, they buy them for the O S!

I have never understood why apple can't get this through their thick skulls.

It's true that apple the company was dying, but with the advent of affordable clones, the Macintosh, was slated to survive. Mac market share was increasing as soon as the hardware became affordable. That was the problem Apple has always had.

people LIKE the OS (i'll even grudgingly admit to it... it's the religion that comes along with it I despise) what peopel DON"T like is paying 1-4 TIMES for the same computer because it has a trendy half-eaten apple logo on it.

Besides... apple already has.

I hate to break this to you but the X64 is a normal intel PC. Literally all that is different is a tiiny little BIOS chip that says "Hey I'm an apple".... that's it!

Hackintosh gets past this with a very legal crack to the core OS... UNIX (ok BSD) which is open source. Darwin, the desktop manager is the proprietary bit.

That aside the drives are all already available for linux and BSD.

Thing is Apple has threatened to sue out of existence (a small company in Florida learned this painful lesson) any one who exploits this perfectly legal system.

The company in Florida was SELLING apple OSes with less-expensive, identical, pc hardware.

The point of my rant, is this HAS been going on for a while now. like, 5 minutes after Mac on PC hardware came out, the "security" feature was broken.

The only reason you don't see many affordable Mac 64's out there is 1 - job will sue you and 2 - why?
granted to be honest about it, you need to buy and own a OS X DVD, but .. after you have gotten the cracked version on-line, why bother?