“Did you hear the one about the Dell Mini Netbooks that run Mac OS X? You didn’t? The Dell Mini 7 and 9 (and probably the 10 also) can be easily modified with a small software download, which allows the user to install and run Apple’s Mac OS X v10.5. And it runs very well, too. Although this is actually quite old news, there’s an interesting aside to this that could have major implications,” Robert Peckham blogs for PCR.
“The question that begs asking in light of that is why is Apple are allowing this? The software download comes from Dell itself – not some small independent ‘hackintosh’ developer, and full instructions are available via Dell’s website. It’s very unlikely Apple would allow this without approving it, and there’s no Apple alternative to Dell’s excellent ‘Mini’ series of netbooks – not yet, anyway,” Peckham writes.
“But at the same time, Apple is preparing to do battle with three very small clone makers who have got Mac OS X running on Wintel hardware using a similar software modification to Dell’s,” Peckham writes. “So if Dell is allowed to broadcast the fact you can run the Mac OS on its netbooks via its website, I have a feeling that the legal teams for the clone makers will be watching developments very closely.”
Full article here.
It’s past time you stuck your head in a bag.
Another retarded blogger trolling for hits‚ which I unfortunately gave him because I wanted to see a link to the portion of Dell’s site that “gives instructions” about how to hack a Mini.
Short answer: there isn’t one. Mydellmini.com is not a Dell site. Coincidence: no link provided by the blogger.
I have a blog too. I’m wondering how misinformed my posts have to be before MDN picks them up. I could sure use the pageviews!
Not gonna happen. I’ve been through this so many times I’m utterly bored.
If it is true that Dell is offering Mac OS X via their website, they’re F*CKED. For those who think Apple would sit around and twiddle thumbs if this were happening: Witness the Psystar case. Apple sat around and waited for them to dig deep with their investment into their SCAM /then/ sued them. At this point they’ve gone bankrupt. Despite reorganization and pushing forward with their SCAM, they are dead in the water. AND Apple suing their asses off.
Conclusion: Apple plan their strategies very carefully so they can effectively wipe SCAMMERS off the face of the planet. This is far more effective than playing Wack-A-Scammer every other week.
Also note: Not one PC user running Mac OS X will ever receive any tech support from Apple. Because of Apple’s requirement for hardware serial numbers from callers, everyone who buys a SCAM box is SOL, on their own, the end. Have fun. You could have bought a Mac, but instead you bought a world of hurt. Great decision there kid.
@auramac
“America and England are two nations divided by a common language.” – George Bernard Shaw
@Big Als MBP
I’m really curious as to which country you live in, where “it’s” is possessive, and it’s common to hurl epithets at people who are grammatically correct.
May I suggest some fun reading for you and your fellow citizens?
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
So this author is saying that by doing nothing, Apple is approving Mac OS X on PCs. As many have pointed out, it looks like Dell is not doing anything unusual either. And people can find ways to illegally install Mac OS X on generic PC hardware. Apple is not going after individuals, only companies that pre-install Mac OS X on computers and sell them that way.
Absolutely ridiculous.
@Dog Gone
I did.
personally, I’d love it if Apple licensed OS X. I think it woul be awesome, and I’d still buy Apple computers.
G Spank sez: “personally, I’d love it if Apple licensed OS X. I think it woul be awesome, and I’d still buy Apple computers.”
Good sentiment, considering the harmonious software & hardware marriage Apple provides. **Bells Ringing**
But Apple have no incentive to separate the OS from the hardware. For those of you having déja vu, move along. It’s the same old lecture I always give:
1) HARDWARE HORRORS: Supporting generic, gawd-knows-what-FrankenMac hardware is a big fat PITA. Steve Jobs knows this first hand. When he ran NeXT and they gave up making their own hardware, they allowed NeXTStep and OpenStep to run on generic IBM-derived PCs. They had a booklet they distributed with the OS. It was over 80 pages long. The booklet was filled with specific PC hardware setups that were supported. Now imagine being Apple and having to (a) Sort out what hardware Joe Blow has (b) Seeing if it qualifies for Mac OS X (c) Then having to troubleshoot those pages and pages of hardware setups. Why would Apple want to stick their neck into that snake pit? They won’t.
2) PROFIT: Apple make the majority of their money from HARDWARE, not their software, including Mac OS X.
3) BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: Apple have already tested these waters and drowned. It happened after the 1996 $1 BILLION of unwanted Performas in the warehouse horror that sent Apple spiraling into decline, and killed them in the press. Apple was in desperation mode, which is when people are at their worst. They made a terribly stooopid decision and listened to the press who had been stooopidly saying for years that Apple should become Microsoft and sell their OS for PCs. Considering that PowerPC chips at the time were seriously 2X faster than current Intel chips, forget that. But Apple did sell Mac OS to manufacturers who followed the PowerPC hardware spec. This included PowerComputing, UMax and Motorola.
And Apple lost their shirt. In 1998, when Steve Jobs was reinstated as CEO, one of his first actions was to STOP selling Mac OS to 3rd party companies. That step, along with the innovations of the iMac got Apple back on track again with what it does best: marrying hardware with software. **Bells Ringing**
That’s how I like it, and how most other experienced Mac users like itl. Consider it part of the genetics that make a Mac a Mac and gives it all the that ‘It Just Works’ goodness that warms your tummy on a cold winter night.
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I currently have 4 Macs (Mini, Macbook Air, 20″ Late 07 iMac, and a Power Mac G4) none of them I would have not bought if not for stumbling onto a hackintosh site one night and thinking that that could be a fun little project to attempt. I got Tiger running on my P4. After running it awhile I decided I’d like a new Mac so I got the iMac and my computer life changed. I currently have a hackintosh MSI Wind netbook. I use it at work where I use my laptop to run internet tests and configure network equipment when I go to customers locations. I can boot it and run everything I need to and turn it off running OS X faster than I can get it booted up running windows. It only cost $300.. OS X is the heart of a Mac. Design comes second. The hardware is not much different. Intel, ATI, Nvidia, Seagate, etc. doesn’t make special “BETTER” hardware for Apple.
“You realize that your vision of the “future” is a rehash of terminal computing circa the 1970’s, the only difference being that this time the dumb terminals connect to the mainframe over the internet?”
Wasn’t the iPhone just a rehash of the Newton?
All your bases are belong to us.
@ Big Als MBP
“In my country it’s is possessive.”
You FAIL.
“It’s” is a contraction of “it is” and “it has” in the English language, regardless of whether it’s American, Canadian, Australian or the Queen’s English.
dell suck
Will people please stop the “in the future all you need is a browser” rubbish, been hearing it for years and it just isn’t true. One need only look at netbooks to see the flaw in this logic, the initial elation at your cool little bargain priced toy fades quickly when you realize how many rich applications won’t run on a gutted hardware platform. A full featured computer isn’t going away any time soon. We may not get the massive leaps in change we have for the last 30 years, but decent hardware with a rich OS is the only thing that makes sense.
Will more and more people turn to smartphones for their needs when they are away form their PC? Clearly, that is already happening. Will those phones run purely browser based apps? Ask Palm Pre owners how that is working out for them so far…