![]() However, $171 may be enough to get people to consider this. ![]() It's $171 more for a much more capable Mac mini. Even when Leopard ships, at retail pricing, it's still $299 + $129 for AppleTV + Mac OS X. Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard) will be the first version of Mac OS X to have a legally purchasable standalone retail Intel version (actually, Leopard will be Universal).īut there are some other things to think about: Technically, you could purchase and run Mac OS X Server 10.4.x (Universal) and legally run it on AppleTV - there would be no prohibitions to this. (And no, there is no conventional Mac OS X license that comes with AppleTV, either explicitly or implicitly.) There is no way to legally get a standalone, retail copy of Mac OS X (Intel) for AppleTV, unless you make arguments about transferring an abandoned license from another Intel-based Mac. It's open source, and you can do with it what you wish regardless.īut there are still some interesting considerations: There are NO prohibitions to doing things like hacking the kernel, etc. Now, you can ignore it, or ignore legal frameworks that may (or may not) enforce license agreements within certain countries/jurisdictions, and so on, but that's why running Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware is "illegal". The license agreement specifies that Mac OS X can only be run on an Apple-labeled computer. ![]() ĪppleTV is an interesting case, because it is an "Apple-labeled" product, which is what the Mac OS X license agreement stipulates. People have jumped through a lot of hoops to attempt to justify to themselves running the hacked Mac OS X on non-Apple systems, coming up with ridiculous sophistries like "What if I have an Intel iMac, but want to only run Linux on it, and then want to use that same OS X license on my Gateway laptop?". From three previous comments of mine, that address pretty much all the issues here: ![]()
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