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Running OS X on a Dell
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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My friend has a Dell Inspiron 1150 and he wants to put OS X on it as well as the normal XP. We both don't know how to go about this, he bought the disks and everything, but if someone could link me to a site that could show me how to do this, it would be great. Thanks for the help.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Allston, MA, USA
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He's an idiot if he "bought the disks." It's illegal to do it. If you're going to do it illegally, you may as well just download it.
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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While I can understand why you'd want to run OS X on a PC now that it's impossible to get a Mac laptop for less than $2000 that doesn't have integrated graphics, unfortunately this is illegal and you'll get no help here.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
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Things we can tell you:
Google it "OSX x86 how to"
If you bought it that would be stupid because the store version is PPC only, i.e. not x86 (intel or amd) machines i.e. not dell, the one you want must be obtained elsewhere and usually is "hacked" or "patched."
Other than that can't help, this thread which I'm surprised hasn't happened yet is probably soon to be lockinated.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Northwest Ohio
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Originally Posted by mduell
Regardless, he will get no help here, because the workaround violates the DMCA because they include Apple-copyrighted code (the unencrypted versions of the extensions Apple encrypts to protect the OS) as part of the patch. DMCA prevents circumvention of copyright protected by encryption.
Bypasses the limits on EULAs.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
While I can understand why you'd want to run OS X on a PC now that it's impossible to get a Mac laptop for less than $2000 that doesn't have integrated graphics, unfortunately this is illegal and you'll get no help here.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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If you were able to purchase OS X for x86 separately, then it is questionable whether the corresponding provisions in the EULA would hold to legal scrutiny. So the question is not as easy. Especially if people from different countries are posting that have no DCMA.
However, you cannot purchase OS X 10.4 for x86 separately right now, so people have to use copies for their new Macs. And this is (unquestionably) illegal. So until you are able to purchase OS X for x86 separately, we (as in the mods) have decided that all threads of this kind will be closed.
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