Almost all the laptops i have seen made by various OEMs are made for Windows OS, and most of them can use Mac OS too. Are there any laptops made by other OEMs, specifically made for Mac OS? Is it even permitted by Apple?
Mac OS System-OTHER, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)
Nope, only Apple computers can run Mac OS.
But we can install and run Mac OS in other laptops. So, are you saying Apple computers do not permit any other hardware to run Mac OS?
VarunSingh wrote:.
So, are you saying Apple computers do not permit any other hardware to run Mac OS?
You can run Windows on a Mac, you cannot run Mac. OS X on a Windows based computer.
You can find most of the needed hacks to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. Hobbyists doing this for their own amusement call this creating a "Hackintosh". If you do this for any commercial purposes, you put your business profits and your entire company at risk.
Your license agreement for Mac OS X prohibits its installation on non-Apple hardware.
VarunSingh wrote:
But we can install and run Mac OS in other laptops. So, are you saying Apple computers do not permit any other hardware to run Mac OS?
Apple's End User License Agreement (EULA) specifically only allows running OS X on genuine Apple computers. It is therefore illegal to run Apple's software on ordinary OEM laptop including those of Dell, Sony, HP, etc.
The only sort of exception to this rule has been the ModBook Pro - see http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro and the Savant who make a home control/media system use a Mac mini as the guts of their Host Controller. In both these cases they buy genuine Macs and rip the guts out and put them in their own custom cases, it is still therefore a case that they are running OS X on genuine Apple computers.
It is not technically impossible to run OS X on non-Apple computers, it is more difficult than on a real Apple computer, but it is the fact it is illegal that is the issue. Microsoft specifically license Windows to be allowed to run on pretty much any make of computer, Apple do not.
and if you try you will be greeted with this
Your karma check for today:
There once was was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he’d do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don’t steal Mac OS!
Really, that’s way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
http://www.dpscomputing.com/blog/2012/07/03/what-com-apple-dont_steal_mac_os_x/
Are there any laptops specifically made for Mac OS, not made by Apple?
