Mac hardware

[jdlenke]

Two questions really...

1. On the hardware side. What is exactly in a Mac?







2. Can you Hackintosh a desktop machine or can't that be discussed in this forum?

[SpywareDr]

Wikipedia: Macintosh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh

The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface rather than a command-line interface.[1]
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Wikipedia: OSx86
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackintosh

OSx86 (a portmanteau of OS X and x86) is a collaborative "hacking" project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture compatible processors, and x86-64 compatible processors. The effort started soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transferring their personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors.

A computer built to run this type of Mac OS X is also known as a Hackintosh, a portmanteau of the word "hack" and the name of Apple's main brand of computers, Macintosh.

The Apple software license does not allow Mac OS X to be used on hardware that is not "Apple-labeled"[1]. It was changed to "Apple-branded" in Snow Leopard probably because many people tend to put Apple Stickers on their PCs to say they are "Apple-Labled". The legality of this form of tying is disputed by companies such as Psystar and PearC, who have attempted to release products using Mac OS on non Apple-machines. However Apple claims the methods it uses to prevent MacOS X from being installed on non-Apple hardware are protected by the DMCA, and in November 2009 won a summary judgement against Psystar on these grounds.[2]
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