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My experience is that Apple hardware has over the years been less reliable than generic PC hardware, mainly because of heating and ventilation. You cram all that stuff into tiny spaces with poor ventilation, and you end up with reliability problems. Yes, it looks nice, yes it sounds quiet, but just put your hand on it. This is one reason people want Hackintoshes.

As to the second point, they don't just have to try to prevent it, if this is true. They have to stop it.

The problem most people have is not that they do not permit installation on non-Apple hardware. The problem is they do permit it - they sell you packages which will install perfectly well. But then they try to stop you installing them by refusing permission.

If they sell stuff which will not install on non-Apple hardware, I don't think anyone would care. Its the combination of selling you stuff that will install anywhere, and then trying to limit what you can do with it by giving or not giving permission, that is the problem.

We'd have exactly the same problem if MS were to start selling Windows in a form which can perfectly well be installed on Macs, but stipulating in the EULA that installation on a MacIntel was forbidden.

Who are you to tell me what to do with what I have bought? That is what we would say. It is just like buying a chisel and being told this means you can only use wood from a given lumber yard. But the wood is no different from the same wood bought someplace else. WTF?