Hackin' away

[libertango]

James Fallows of The Atlantic recently did a review of Scrivener. As part of that review, he said, "I can happily run any Windows program on a Mac, but things don't work the other way around."

I let him know that it is possible to run Mac on a Windows machine, it's just an intricate process.

Today, Jim writes up my introduction to him of the "hackintosh", complete with photo I provided from when I did this myself a few years back.

Comments

[jackwilliambell.livejournal.com]

I love Scrivener. It is like the writer's equivalent of a programmer's IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Mind you, Scrivener isn't perfect and I wish it was scriptable so I could add some functionality I want. But it is the best writer's tool I've ever tried.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

...and if it gives detailed instructions, Apple will ask for it to be taken down. y/n? (taking bets)

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

It doesn't give detailed instructions.

However, it gives the search string to find detailed instructions, and those sites tend to be at transparent-to-their-purpose domains. (hackintosh.com, osx86project.org, hackint0sh.org, etc.)

Those sites have been up for multiple years. Apple's position appears to be, these actions are complete violations of the license agreement, but they're not going after retail violators (so far). Lack of official tech support seems to be their stick of choice (again, so far).

PS: Lifehacker.com, a reasonably prominent site, has had these detailed instructions for 2-1/2 years now.