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  • 31-05-2012 9:47am
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    Procrastastudy
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    Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but I'm curious.

    Back in the day Macs where a discrete platform based on Motorola silicon. These days they just seem to be PCs with a different operating system. Why are people paying 3x the price for hardware just because it has a Mac badge on it. Is it just because Apple make bit proprietary or can you not buy the OS separately? Could you not just build a PC and install the Mac OS on it?

    I'm not disputing the e-peen factor of Macs or the fact the OS might be the second coming of Christ just the cost. (Only having used it for 15 minutes I can't really comment - people always insist it never crashes so I take them at their word.)


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    #2
    Procrastastudy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭Procrastastudy


    Ah found a Hackingtosh thread - I'm now enlightened :)


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    Tea_Bag
    Registered Users Posts: 4,983 ✭✭✭Tea_Bag


    I've wanted to dual boot MacOS for a while now just to annoy some friends, but my hardware is too advanced to handle it :o

    it doesn't play nice with most of my stuff, but doesn't play at all with a 6990 :(


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