Comment Re:Apple is going to lose - antitrust law (Score 1) 615
>Apple puts DRM hardware in Macs already. Installing OS X with a non-Mac motherboard
>requires what is essentially a large crack patch (among other things).
Well, this is both true and false.
The install disc must be hacked to allow it to work on non-Apple hardware. This is unavoidable. However, once the system is installed on compatible hardware using an EFI bootloader, OS X itself can run totally unmodified. This typically isn't the case and some very minor patching is required to add device ids to existing drivers. OS X does not check any kind of TPM, nor does the OS itself depend on any kind of hardware DRM to run. It simply has a very narrow set of supported hardware which makes installing a bit of a chore. Once the system is running, as I mentioned, it's pretty damn smooth.
My Toshiba notebook is 99% compatible and basically trouble-free. The only missing feature that really irritates are the function keys for brightness. Because of Toshiba's brain-dead software-only implementation of those keys, I can't adjust the brightness in OS X or any non-Windows operating system. Other than that, all my hardware was either supported out of the box, or with some devid jiggery-pokery. It benchmarks right in line with a MacBook, but at a fraction of the cost.
Sounds good to me.
>requires what is essentially a large crack patch (among other things).
Well, this is both true and false.
The install disc must be hacked to allow it to work on non-Apple hardware. This is unavoidable. However, once the system is installed on compatible hardware using an EFI bootloader, OS X itself can run totally unmodified. This typically isn't the case and some very minor patching is required to add device ids to existing drivers. OS X does not check any kind of TPM, nor does the OS itself depend on any kind of hardware DRM to run. It simply has a very narrow set of supported hardware which makes installing a bit of a chore. Once the system is running, as I mentioned, it's pretty damn smooth.
My Toshiba notebook is 99% compatible and basically trouble-free. The only missing feature that really irritates are the function keys for brightness. Because of Toshiba's brain-dead software-only implementation of those keys, I can't adjust the brightness in OS X or any non-Windows operating system. Other than that, all my hardware was either supported out of the box, or with some devid jiggery-pokery. It benchmarks right in line with a MacBook, but at a fraction of the cost.
Sounds good to me.
