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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Another failed assumption. One of my laptops is a Hackintosh, only because I bought it cheap from a friend, and desired to have OS X for productivity reasons. It's not as stable for me as native OS X, but that's part of why buying a "real" Mac was worth it to me. The day I'm too broke to afford $3k-$5k for a real computer every couple of years is a sad time.
Sadly, while your hardware might be the "same" in your mind, it A) won't hook up to my Cinema Display monitors, and B) would be laughed out of the store if you brought it in for support. I'm not into wasting my own time if something goes wrong -- it's too valuable to me.
It's funny that you're saying you've "done the research" when you don't even know basic things about the platform.
Not trying to pick a fight with you, it just irks me when people spout of ignorant shit while pretending to me some sort of authority on the subject.
It's like when Honda drivers used to come up to my Viper at a light and yell "I've got the same horsepower!" ... yeah, but they were still in a Honda.
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As in my last post, with 10.7 came the ability to run pure OS X. No modified kernels, no modified kexts, no EFI strings. 10.6 was trickier for sure, but the end result was the same.
Any why wouldn't my system run on your cinema display monitors? What, because the specific card I have doesn't have displayport/mini displayport? That's easily resolved.
Why would I need to worry about Apple support? Unlike you, I know exactly what is in my machines, and therefore I wouldn't be stuck calling a hotline and saying "something' wrong, please help". I'd know how to identify the problem and fix it myself.
As far as not spending the money on a Mac.. I chose not to. At the end of the day, the system I run now ran me a bit over 3k. Choosing not to spend another 1k+ for "Mac hardware" of the same spec was exactly that, a choice. But I like how you try to used the same failed argument that every other mac fanboy uses... you didn't kick out the money for a "real" mac because you can't afford to.
And once again, I could run Lion, and likely even mountain lion, on this machine in their pure form - meaning not having to "hack" shit to make it work flawlessly. The only thing I have to do is run a separate boot loader to work around lack of EFI in my bios. That's akin to running windows bootloader, or grub, or grub2 and has zero impact on the system software itself.