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int_19h on June 22, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about ...

They did waste legal resources going after commercial Hackintosh clones, though, and they might want to prevent something similar in the future. And once they have their own unique CPUs, adding a CPU ID check is trivial.

nutjob2 on June 22, 2020 [–]

And defeating a CPU ID check is trivial.

Companies selling hardware that is "Mac compatible" and profiting from that is a very different thing. Apple clearly cares about that.

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