Originally Posted by jose456891

I used to be a PC guy. The reason i converted to macs is because one day i decided to try out leopard on my PC. I researched how to make a PC run OS X. Finally one day I found out how to make a hackingtosh.

Hackingtosh is a regular PC running OS X. this is the best way to own a "mac" with out hitting the wallet too hard. I thought it was really fun turning my PC into a "Mac" or Hackingtosh.

I thank the OS X community for introducing me to Mac's

If you own and old mac and would like to upgrade to the newer machines or simply try out leopard with out loosing an arm you could build your own hackingtosh for less than $300 bucks and have identical hardware as the mac pro! Just google osx86

good luck to all

Originally Posted by ilaureano

Congratulations!, making yourself a hackingtosh is one of the more satisfying things in the computing world.

Using a hackingtosh is more less in a legally-grey area. I think it's not tecnically illegal, but there are many people that don't think is -at least- moral.

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Originally Posted by flynismo

What exactly is an Apple-labeled machine? Can anyone label a machine as "Apple"?

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Originally Posted by atlex2

Throw one of those apple stickers on it, the ones that come with ipods. Problem solved, they left too much room for interpretation, a good lawyer could fight this case.