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Or it could just be the economy; most people don't know a computer hasn't been refreshed. With the economy slowing down, people who need to watch what they spend will be going for low quality throw away machines more than they will a product like…
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Apple doesn't need a new processor to stop this. Just a new Apple branded chipset. Give it a compatibility interface for legacy OS's....but a different register interface that only OS X knows. No one in their right mind is going to engineer a mul…
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They really need to break games down into subcategories in my opinion. That category is getting too large.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Clive At Five You're saying "hack" like it's a naughty word or something. Get off your high horse and/or over yourself. Building a hackintosh is no worse than some of the shenanigans Woz & Jobs pulled against self-…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kramermu Actually, I have never given my opinion on this matter, nor have I any argument. I was simply stating what is the obvious truth, that this is a retail version of OSX. Retail Leopard DVD. Retail. Retail. Retai…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kramermu Um...Yeah, I know? Your argument is you aren't hacking to circumvent copy protection, but you are by circumventing encryption with the hack.
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Quote: Originally Posted by kramermu But you're not replacing...you're adding. There is no hacking of the actual OS or DVD at all (that might depend on your definition of 'hacking'). But that's not the point...my point was that this is a Retail…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kramermu Long time reader, but I feel that there is WAAAY to much mis-information here...But Minderbinder, you're about 6 months out of date. Psystar is NOT shipping a hacked version of OSX. IT IS RETAIL. There a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Clive At Five If by "modifying OS X" you mean tweaking a few kexts, you'd be accurate... but if that's copyright violation, so is installing drivers for third party hardware, i.e. eyeTV, MIDI controllers, unsupported p…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cwoloszynski I think that the question here is regarding how those 'modified' files were created. If someone reverse engineered them to bypass the copy protection, I think DCMA has something to say about this. if…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Clive At Five No......... It's like Nintendo suing someone who builds and sells modified PS3s that also play Wii games... to which I say, "where's the case?" Apple should just leave Psystar alone. They'll never seri…
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Quote: Originally Posted by archer75 You could if you included the original CD's. Psystar isn't taking one copy of leopard and making copies and selling it on every PC. Each PC includes it's own copy of Leopard which was legally purchased. Psy…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone We haven't been able to purchase software for a very long time. If you read the agreement, you are purchasing a right to use the software, as in a lease. If you had leased an apartment and then sold it to someon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by archer75 What they mean and what it says are two different things. Once you place a apple label on your computer it is then apple labeled. Does that mean that apple has to place the label there? Most likely, but it doe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by archer75 You can install straight from a retail DVD. You prep the partition with an EFI emulator. Nothing illegal about that. Then install the Retail copy of leopard. An unmodified disc. After it's complete you can the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kaiser777 Yeah... good luck with that. They are likely to succeed actually. Apple sells a very large % of notebooks vs their market share of desktops. So there will be accessory makers and monitors that support th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I'm assuming that you are talking about Doom running from within Windows, within the virtualized environment. In that case, only OS X controls the graphics. Everything else uses commands that have to be tran…