Installing Leopard on a PC

[Ravenas]

Downloading and reporting bugs will report your information to Apple.

 

[mab1376]

i dont think that downloading will tell it if its genuine or not, and it doesn't have a gay authentication system like ms does. the only thing you have to watch out for is making sure you aren't connected to the internet during the os installation cause thats the only time your os will call home.

thats what i figured.

plus im sure theres a patch out there to block it.

APPLE.MAC.OSX.LEOPARD.V10.5.ISO-OSX

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1. Unrar
2. Burn
3. Install

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Downloading and reporting bugs will report your information to Apple.

then find patched versions of the updates.

 

[Wile E]

Just to let people know, it is technically illegal to install OS X on a Non-Apple machine. It breaks the EULA of the OS, which they can sue you for, if they desired.

But anyway, it is only a technicality. It's not like they'll come knocking on your door.


@mab - People that pay $130 for Leopard make you laugh, huh? For $130, you get a retail copy of an OS that is as feature laden as Vista Ultimate. Not a bad deal, imo. Some people actually like to legally purchase their software. There's nothing wrong with that.

 

[mab1376]

Just to let people know, it is technically illegal to install OS X on a Non-Apple machine. It breaks the EULA of the OS, which they can sue you for, if they desired.

But anyway, it is only a technicality. It's not like they'll come knocking on your door.


@mab - People that pay $130 for Leopard make you laugh, huh? For $130, you get a retail copy of an OS that is as feature laden as Vista Ultimate. Not a bad deal, imo. Some people actually like to legally purchase their software. There's nothing wrong with that.

i Got Vista Ultimate w/ a core 2 6300 and a intel motherboard for $220 which i then sold the mobo and processor and mobo for $220

so i indeed have a legal copy of Vista, along with XP was givin to me by my girlfriends father who upgraded to vista, so that as well is a legal copy.

i also just installed fedora 8, thats 3 feature filled OSes that can run on almost any machine for no money.

 

[FatForester]

I love how this has become a discussion on law. Apple should view people interested in their OS as a compliment, because it could potentially bring people over to their platform. However, if anything is illegal in all this, it should be the fact that Apple forces its consumers into proprietary EVERYTHING. The beef I have with Apple is the fact that they "nicely" bully customers into their proprietary, closed platform, and then show it off in their ignorant advertising. But who can honestly blame them when it works?

Apple would gain a lot of credibility if they opened up their operating system for all PC's. Apple is unique because of their die hard fans, so even if OSX was open to PC's, those same people will keep buying Apple hardware. When you hear their advertising campaign about how superior it is to Windows, then what's actually stopping them from opening it up to PC's? As people found out with the Leopard release, Apple isn't ready to support 3rd-party apps, which is one of the consequences of becoming popular. Whenever they can handle the increasing popularity of their OS, I don't see why they shouldn't jump over to the PC bandwagon. Heck, MS NEEDS the competition now a days, so this would really benefit everyone!


... Holy crap, I need to shut up. I have a tendency to just go on rants like this when it involves Apple for some reason. Hopefully it wasn't too biased... Anyway, rant over!

 

[vega22]

the best of it all is that they are using an eula as the reason, which has never been precided over in court as a leagal contract.

eula = not worth the paper its writen on.

not sure about running it on a pc tho, would be fun to try i think.

 

[Ripper3]

Installing Leopard on a PC is illegal.

So is installing Windows on a PC when you did not buy it.


PearPC didn't work for Tiger, only up to Panther.
Tiger was cracked for PC use by the OSX86 team, who have already been working on Leopard, but the current way to crack it is a little bit user-unfriendly.

I didn't read through the whole thread, I'm too lazy today, so sorry if someone else said it already.

 

[panchoman]

you're right ripper lol. im waiting for some more popularity of leopard on pc's, and a new hdd, then i install it.

 

[mab1376]

you're right ripper lol. im waiting for some more popularity of leopard on pc's, and a new hdd, then i install it.

ditto, for now i'll stick w/ fedora. its close enough.

 

[Ravenas]

So is installing Windows on a PC when you did not buy it.


PearPC didn't work for Tiger, only up to Panther.
Tiger was cracked for PC use by the OSX86 team, who have already been working on Leopard, but the current way to crack it is a little bit user-unfriendly.

I didn't read through the whole thread, I'm too lazy today, so sorry if someone else said it already.

If it's OEM, it's not illegal. If the OS came with your computer your not allowed to install it on another. Get your facts straight.

 

[mab1376]

yup a dell or hp oem xp disc will work perfectly on any properly tattooed bios. as well as other companies i'm sure.

however hp now tattoos their bios' per model so you need the specific disc, whereas dell discs don't care.