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Linux overtaken by Hackintosh (theinquirer.net)
3 points by nickb on Feb 3, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Someone on my local craigslist is selling MSI Wind netbooks with a dual boot, windows/OS X install.

So they may be on to something.

I suspect it's the iPhone effect at work; you get an iPhone and then you discover that you need a Mac to get the most out of it; macs cost a fair bit of actual cash, a hackintosh can be built in an evening. The only major cost is your ethical values.


"Lies, filthy lies, and statistics." Note that the list also includes "MacIntel", "Mac OS X Mach-O", and "Mac OS"... this is the result of different Mac browsers reporting their OS version differently. "Hackintosh" systems will, in fact, appear identically to legitimately purchased systems in browser statistics.




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