well i guess that's the question.

anyone?

I like the idea of it, yet I think you would run into a few snags trying to locate device drivers for some of the non Apple hardware.

I have read many blogs about throwing OS X on a plane jane PC. Some folks have been successful, others haven't. I ain't much of a help, I guess.

i know a guy who did it. he lives in dc and runs some webhosting company

busbus wrote:I like the idea of it, yet I think you would run into a few snags trying to locate device drivers for some of the non Apple hardware.

like an nVidia graphics card or an Intel 5000P north bridge?

i haven't done it on a computer of my own, but a buddy of mine at school has done it and i've seen it running, and it seems to work.

tutorial:
http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-att ... 321913.php

yep, i just saw that one,
seems people are getting much closer to an easy install with these than say, two years ago

These people do not "build a Mac." They throw together some hardware and then "steal a Mac."

Because it's the software that makes a Mac a Mac. And the people who really build Macs work very hard to do so. They deserve better than getting ripped off.

I'm Mac-based anyway, so don't care too much, but I think the hope is that if enough people 'steal' it, Apple will do the unthinkable and release an official OS X for regular PCs. Apple make great software subsidised by shitty, overpriced crappy hardware. It's probably never going to happen, but I'd much rather run OS X on a self-built PC which is easier to upgrade/replace parts and repair, than face ridiculous repair bills because some non-standard part has broken.

I've repaired my own Macs and have found Apple to be fast, reasonable, and helpful in terms of parts. It could well be different in the UK.

Relative to what you get Macs are worth the price. Having control over the hardware is part of what makes Apple's software do-able.

A recent trade review came to the conclusion that the best Windows laptop you can buy is...a Mac.

The only time Apple tried to support 3rd party hardware was also the time they reached their low point as a company.

Until some other company comes up with an overall better product than Apple's, I'm not going to second guess what they really should be doing.

And nothing mentioned so far justifies ripping off Mac OS software.

Apparently you've never had to network them...

Today, my G5 at work decided to forget the extensions to a Quark document and 3/4 of all the type faces in the folder we needed for a customer's piece. At least it didn't crash trying access the RAID server today.