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Wired Shows You How to Hackintosh a Netbook, Apple Gets Pissed

Posted 01/15/09 at 04:29:46 PM  by Andy Salisbury

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Wired’s Brian Chen was smacked with a cease-and-desist not long ago for his video depicting how to turn your netbook into a hackintosh.

The video, which gave an exact step-by-step tutorial about how to put OS X onto a netbook, (with trips to The Pirate Bay included) has since been taken down off of Wired’s Tech Lab. However, you can still check it out over at Gizmodo, who’s sticking it to the man hasn’t run them into any evident danger as of yet.

Apple’s exact complaint about the video hasn’t been printed anywhere, so that is something that we might not ever get to find out, but what we do know is that the video is mighty thorough! And it only clocks in at about four minutes, so why not watch it?

 

Image Credit: Wired Tech Lab

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TAGS: apple, hardware, Mac, consumer electronics, Wired, Hackintosh
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avatarlol sticking it to the man.

Submitted by exoticracerx on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 6:40pm

lol sticking it to the man. apple thinks their the top dog. hackintosh is funny

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avatarQuestion:

Submitted by Havok on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 4:29pm

 What happens when you have a bunch of loyalist fanatics running around worshipping a man who is the brains behind one of the single handed mostsought after OS's that have an equally shiny case that can now run on Intels?

Answer: A Hackintosh.

C'mon. Seriously, at least say why you're so pissed about the guy making a netbook hackingtosh?

I mean, 1 gb of RAM, 80-160 gb hardrive, small 8-13 inch screens on an Intel running at 1.66 GHZ?

Seems like the specs for many netbooks but is actually the specs for many a macbook aswell. It was only time before this would happen.

I say put it back up on Wired.

 

 

OMGWTFBBQ

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avatarhaha, one of the funniest

Submitted by xs0u1x on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 3:31pm

haha, one of the funniest headlines ive ever seen here.

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