Hackintosh alive and well in Taiwan
Credit card in hand and ready to buy a built to order Mac? If you are in Taiwan, the home country for many of Apple’s Asian OEM partners, then you should have a look at MAQ.tw which has three — Taipei, Taichung and Gaohsiung — convenient locations, as well as a Facebook page and Youtube channel.
As you can see from the above (edited) screen grab, a quad-core 3.2GHz (i7) tower with decent stuff inside sells for a good bit less than a comparable iMac here in the US. Moreover, MAQ.tw offers a three-year warranty with free pick up and delivery.
And, have a look at their website and all of those wonderful choices — why pay for FireWire or Airport if you’ll never use it? Or, how about 8TB of storage or a bad ass I/O card without breaking the bank? Hmm, my mouth is watering.
Free market is as free market does
Here in America, you can find Hackintoshes — Mac OS X running on generic (and hopefully cheap) PC hardware — on Craigslist and eBay, but good luck with getting warranty service or support. In Taiwan, you can buy a BTO hackintosh online, pay for it with a credit and have it delivered to your home or business.
The only company in the US to make a “serious” try at commercial scale hackintoshery was PsyStar, but that company cratered in a federal courtroom back December 2009.
Wishing maybe just a little that you lived in Taiwan? I’m ready to order…
Access to production technologies gives one the chance to make cheap clones. Piracy unless stifled reduces the development costs to zero and eventually development. Why make something new at your expense when its cheaper copied!
The birth of companies back in Queen Elizabeth 1′s days was a monopoly to produce your product. But she plundered the Spanish Main wealth with her pirates!
You want cheap use a stone ax otherwise pay for someones invention!
Why Reference about spanish pirates?
I need to understand this comment because is possible I have not all information about.
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QE1 monopolized companies — changed from unionized guilds of middle ages to private “corporations” for specific purposes mostly publishing {bibles} ( incorporation not invented yet AND as example Shakespeare’s band of actors). But this is English law.
On the high seas she plundered* the Spanish ships taking silver and gold from the Americas to Spain and created the wealth for the next generation of English to use. And the start of the British Empire!
* Sir Walter Raleigh and no law of the sea
Spanish labor and capital was stolen by English sanctioned pirates – It is how wealth was made preindustrially — you stole from a weak neighbor see bible story of Jews getting their homeland.
So at the birth of Companies theft was one way they could prosper provided it was theft of foreign goods.
Oh and Apple first went to production overseas because the Taiwanese cloned the Apple in 70′s (?)
So apple invented the intel i7 architecture? DDR RAM and harddrives and all the other stuff in their machines? also while we are at it i assume they also wrote freebsd?
wasnt aware of that.
Skarufue NO BUT THEY PAY FOR IT’S USE
WHEN YOU TAKE SOMETHING FOR FREE THAT IS THE PROBLEM
WHETHER ITS A BANANA, LAND OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
IT IS WORK THAT HAS NOT BEEN PAID FOR!
DO YOU WORK FOR NOTHING?
SOON WITH CARBON TAXES YOU WILL PAY FOR BREATHING!
BUT STEALING IP IS OK!
Why are You commenters talking about piracy ?
Nothing is pirated.
The hardware in a intel based PC and a Mac is the same.
The only differents is the OS and You can buy MacOS at apple.
The problem is that the OSX license specifically requires that OSX must be installed on Apple hardware only. Then we well know that many hackintosh users don’t care because they download it illegally.
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