Is building a hackintosh 100% legal?

[decayedbrain]

I've tried researching the answer to my question for awhile now, and I can't seem to find a clear answer. Yes, I know you have to patch Leopard in order for it to work, but is that legal according to Apple's Terms of Use? :confused:

[thefalloftroy]

its legal as in you cannot go to jail or anything by doing it, unless by some reason the fbi went to your house to see if your OS X is 100% legit (which wont happen), but you wont get any kind of support from apple since your os x wont be registered and you wont have a serial number, so yeah its preety safe to build a hackintosh, but only do if you need to, if your on a notebook, buy a macbook theyr preety cheap compared to what you get, if u wanna build a mac pro then go ahead, but remember, hardware malfunction or mac os x trouble because incompability or something, and you wont be able to do a thing about it, so it all depends on what you wanna do, if by legal you mean cant get sued, go to prison or something, yeah it is, but again, you wont get technical support from anyone but hackintosh forum users.

[decayedbrain]

its legal as in you cannot go to jail or anything by doing it, unless by some reason the fbi went to your house to see if your OS X is 100% legit (which wont happen), but you wont get any kind of support from apple since your os x wont be registered and you wont have a serial number, so yeah its preety safe to build a hackintosh, but only do if you need to, if your on a notebook, buy a macbook theyr preety cheap compared to what you get, if u wanna build a mac pro then go ahead, but remember, hardware malfunction or mac os x trouble because incompability or something, and you wont be able to do a thing about it, so it all depends on what you wanna do, if by legal you mean cant get sued, go to prison or something, yeah it is, but again, you wont get technical support from anyone but hackintosh forum users. Your post is a little bit confusing. Are you saying that it is or that it is not 100% legal to build a hackintosh?

[thefalloftroy]

yes, its legal, but you wont get any support from apple or any other 3rd party companies for harware or software malfunction.

[decayedbrain]

yes, its legal, but you wont get any support from apple or any other 3rd party companies for harware or software malfunction. Thank you very much!

[mattmartincouk]

yes, its legal, but you wont get any support from apple or any other 3rd party companies for harware or software malfunction.
Not exactly right.

You can build a Hackintosh - that is legal. As soon as you load OSX onto it.. it's illegal as you are in breach of the EULA agreement for the software.

[piranha]

it's not illegal - you only breach of the EULA agreement for the software - this has nothing to do with legality.

[decayedbrain]

I would think that Apple can sue you for that.

[piranha]

Well, that depends what's the background of your story.
If you do it for your own private use, enforcibility of Eulas have not been proven in court yet. And Apple will not go after one person.

If you plan massive production of hackintoshes with preloaded os, look closer at psystar, and soon we'll know if eula can be enforced in the court.

[decayedbrain]

Yeah it was just for personal use. I see what you're saying though.

[amberkilloran]

Yeah it was just for personal use. I see what you're saying though.

You really should be fine then. I never really thought about it, but its nice to know that it is legal... even if it is a breach of the EULA.

[sam]

Ok first of all, noone was ever sued based upon EULA. Apple is to afraid of loosing this battle. Even with Psystar they waited for somthing else to fuck them up for copyright infriction cause of the updates they made.
The EULA itself has very little to absolutly no legal ground. As a postsale restriction it may be considred illegal even in many country.
From the current point of view, at least if you are using a retail osx DVD, it's legal unless piracy gets involved. :fail

[M_A_G_G_I]

In my opinion apple can't say that your not allowed to run OS X on normal computers. They should be happy that i payed the license and that os x is getting more popular.