Best budget Hackintosh Laptop
Looking at buing a new laptop.
Have 3 macs but would be interested in a windows laptop if i could 'hackintosh' it.
looking at http://www.itspot.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=315007...
Any ideas, thoughts suggestions ?
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Worth a looksie http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/03/four-best-hackintosh-lapto...
+1 voteyou are failling to live up to your name Macgyver.
imagine a situation where an asteroid has been captured by the TLF (Tasmanian Liberation Foundation) and has been directed to crash into the middle east (to destroy all oil production) thus forcing the world to become reliant on tasmanian oil reserves.
now, you have to hack into a retired orbiting channel 9 satelite and reconfigure it's transmission laser to bounce off the secret hidden CIA/ASIO moon base back through the hubble telescope which focuses the beam to such intensity that it will blow a chunk of asteroid and thus deflect the asteroid from its trajectory and pass harmlessly beyond earth (or hit toowoomba and cause $5billion dollars in improvements).
you only have a spatula, some twine, a jaguar installation disk in !kung and an intel p4 laptop that is missing the y + j + ctrl buttons.
(all channel 9 satelites use OSx)
Chickenleg on 28/07/2012 - 10:29 ¶I know a few people that have done it to run OSX programs such as Logic and Final Cut
+1 votecamelgrass on 28/07/2012 - 20:55 ¶If they can afford these programs why don't they just buy a Mac where they will run smoother anyway?
bigosmallo on 29/07/2012 - 16:14 ¶I've tried installing Mac OSX on a supposedly easily hackintoshable netbook and it was one of the most frustrating experiences ever. In the end I gave up and went with Ubuntu.
Whatever floats your boat though.
- camelgrass on 29/07/2012 - 19:45 ¶
How come users are allowed to talk about carrying out and performing illegal activities on OzBargain?
Similar discussion has been deleted before.
- camelgrass on 30/07/2012 - 20:24 ¶
Yes, an EULA is a civil matter but there can still be implications regarding illegality (note, I did not say anything about criminality). By building a hackintosh you are violating copyright law, so in that sense it is illegal and Apple can sue you for copyright violation.
Infringing on copyright is illegal in Australia. The problem is I don't know the full ins and outs of Apple's EULA; whether their copyright clause states only US copyright code, or Australian and international code as well.
- camelgrass on 31/07/2012 - 00:11 ¶
It is done by purchasing a legitimate version of the operating system. The only thing that can be violated is the EULA and that hasn't been tested in the Australian courts.
I'm not talking about piracy here. Copyright can still be violated; even with no mention of an EULA.
The EULA and copyrights held by Apple are not necessarily concomitant and can be approached separately.
It comes down to Australian copyright law and code and how it is determined and how Apple define and approach copyright violations—evidently with much vigor (and not necessarily anything to do with their EULA).
I'm not an expert on the matter and I'm not about to become one now. The reality is we could spend weeks on the subject and still not have a defintive answer (knowing Apple's history of litigaton, I'm definitely not about to put up my hand up to test it now).
Food for thought—I wonder why there are no retailers in Australia selling Hackintoshes today? There were some very successful businesses in the USA a few years ago selling preconfigured Hackintoshes but they're all gone now because of litigation instigated by Apple. I suspect there is a sizeable market for preconfigureed Hackintoshes in Australia today.
- camelgrass on 31/07/2012 - 04:45 ¶
It seems that the comments regarding Apple's EULA having never been tested in an Australian court of law may be redundant anyway.
From (p10) www.copyright.org.au/admin/cms-acc1/_images/15053623324f42cf...
Is material from overseas protected by copyright?
As a result of Australiaʼs obligations under a number of international treaties, almost all copyright material created overseas is also protected in Australia under the Australian Copyright Act.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
On November 13, 2009, the court granted Apple's motion for summary judgement and found Apple's copyrights were violated as well as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) when Psystar installed Apple's operating system on non-Apple computers
From (p7) www.copyright.org.au/admin/cms-acc1/_images/15053623324f42cf...
The following info is particularly relevant because it relates to technology Apple uses to protect it's copyright material and how "Hackintosher's" try and circumvent it:
Hacking, cracking, “mod chipping” and decoding
Copyright owners and broadcasters sometimes use technology to try to protect digital material
from unauthorised access or use (for example, by encrypting material or encoding broadcasts). In
some cases, copyright owners also use technology to identify and monitor digital copies of their
material (“electronic rights management information”).Under the Copyright Act, copyright owners can take action against people who circumvent
technological measures which control access to copyright material. Copyright owners can also
generally take action against people who make, sell, import or rent out devices which are used to
circumvent technological measures and against people who provide circumvention services.
Copyright owners can also take action against people who remove or alter electronic rights
management information.Anyone game to test Apple's EULA in an Australian court of law?
- camelgrass on 04/08/2012 - 02:09 ¶
tonyjzx on 30/07/2012
its a grey area
if reputable publications talk about it surely a random web forum can talk about it?
i think its on whirlpool but not ocau
FWIW, there is a thread on Whirlpool where Simon Wright (owner of Whirlpool) says discussion about Hackintoshing is not allowed. A moderator also confirmed this in another thread. Both threads are now closed. It seems you can't even discuss why you can't discuss what you're not allowed to discuss. Any thread that even mentions Hackintoshing will be closed.
Apple's obviously sent him running scared at one time or the other.
If OzBargain allowed consistent discussion on Hackintoshing it would only be a matter of time before Scotty got a friendly note from Apple.
superforever on 31/07/2012 - 12:12 ¶I have a Dell mini9 with bad SSD drive, I am wondering if I can make it a Hackintosh .
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is a netbook hackintosh an option?
EEE
checkout www.osx86project.org/
or tonymac.com for some ideas.