Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Argument does not follow
Him: I want to make a Hackintosh, so I'll need to copy those disks.Me: Why not just buy a Mac and get all the support without all the work?
Him: I don't have $3400!
Me: Then buy a Mac mini. They start at $599.
Him: But I need some horsepower!
Bystander: That sounds like the testosterone talking.
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Welcome to Lunar Obverse, C!
I was worried this post didn't have enough context but clearly, from the remarks, it does.
So I won't have to add that the person who needed the horsepower, wanted to circumvent Apple's EULA, and balked at spending anywhere from $599 to $3500 was a Republican, now will I?
I was worried this post didn't have enough context but clearly, from the remarks, it does.
So I won't have to add that the person who needed the horsepower, wanted to circumvent Apple's EULA, and balked at spending anywhere from $599 to $3500 was a Republican, now will I?
I made a silent Hackintosh because I'm a geek, period. I guess I could justify it by saying I had the spare parts in my garage and because I take perverse pleasure in developing iPhone apps on it, but mostly I did it out of curiosity and the fact I've been using Unix since 1978. At some point, I'll probably break it up, give the parts to FreeGeek or my Church, and see if I can build a file server that draws less than 25W.
That said, there's zilch that I'm doing on it that wouldn't work just as well on a mini, with quite a bit less hassle at upgrade time. 10.5.6. -> 10.5.7 eek!
P.S. Rush Limbaugh is a very enthusiastic Macintosh proponent. Pigeonholing people isn't always productive. :-)
That said, there's zilch that I'm doing on it that wouldn't work just as well on a mini, with quite a bit less hassle at upgrade time. 10.5.6. -> 10.5.7 eek!
P.S. Rush Limbaugh is a very enthusiastic Macintosh proponent. Pigeonholing people isn't always productive. :-)
Truth is, there's not that much actual hacking in making a Hackintosh, as I see it. Yeah, you might have to fix stuff when an update borks some driver, but it seems pretty straightforward to me - assuming you picked the right hardware in the first place. Is that where the "hacking" comes in?
Or maybe it seems straightforward to me because I'm a geek, too?
As far as pigeonholing - yeah, and Karl Rove used an iPhone. He may still do so; the picture I saw of him was from a few years back. And the point would be...? :)
Or maybe it seems straightforward to me because I'm a geek, too?
As far as pigeonholing - yeah, and Karl Rove used an iPhone. He may still do so; the picture I saw of him was from a few years back. And the point would be...? :)
The hacking part for me was porting device drivers over for an ancient Adaptec SCSI controller that lets me play with my 13 year-old slide scanner that I can't justify replacing. (Which I made freely available under the APSL/FreeBSD for Darwin 9.0 and FreeBSD 7.1+)
That said, I can see how (for most people at least) one could say that the whole thing is just another exercise in consumerism. Instead of recycling old parts and making them work, they go out and purchase new items from a parts list they grabbed off Insanely Macintosh or LifeHacker.
That said, I can see how (for most people at least) one could say that the whole thing is just another exercise in consumerism. Instead of recycling old parts and making them work, they go out and purchase new items from a parts list they grabbed off Insanely Macintosh or LifeHacker.
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