[LINK] Psystar hits back in Apple clone case

Kim Davies kim at cynosure.com.au
Sat Aug 30 01:56:42 AEST 2008


Quoting Rick Welykochy on Friday August 29, 2008:
| 
| Since Apple completely controls their Intel hardware profile, couldn't
| they add software that checks that profile and reject clones? A clone
| would have to be 100% exactly the same as (one of the) the Apple Intel
| hardware profiles to pass muster.

I think this is what they already do, but Psystar patches the OS to
bypass the checks. As a result you need to get all upgrades to the OS
through Psystar, and the genuine updates from Apple won't work.

kim



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