[X4U] Couple questions on Apples move to Intel

Philip J Robar philip.robar at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 17:34:36 PDT 2005


On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> At 11:19 AM -0700, 6/7/05, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>>  > Good point... perhaps making it clear that using OSX on anything
>>
>>> other than an Apple-built machine is considered "off-label" use,  
>>> and "use at your own risk", without doing anything particular to  
>>> thwart such use would be enough. I suspect it might be enough to  
>>> keep those who are not well-equipped to deal with whatever issues  
>>> could arise with such use away from the el-cheapo generic PC  
>>> boxes - while leaving those who like to live on the bleeding-edge  
>>> free to experiment.
>>
>> While this is good in theory, you'd have techies putting together  
>> cheap
>> beige boxes for idiots that wouldn't otherwise be able to do it.  
>> Then when
>> the box has problems, Apple would get the blame.
>
> This is absurd.

You've obviously never worked in tech. support anywhere.

Phil



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