Painkiller wrote:
I'm amazed how easily stores could sell products that are in some ways modified etc. and not told in the discription and some of you guys would be fine with it... How would some of you guys feel if I created a MAC from custom parts installed OSX in it, fit it in MAC case and then sell it as a MAC. Hey it does job exactly like a MAC so it must be a MAC and screw you if you didn't bother to ask if it is a real MAC from Apple factory parts.
I suspect that "Macintosh" is a trademark so Apple would sue you into oblivion :-)
A better analogy would be if you bought an off-the-shelf graphics card for a Windows machine and flashed the firmware to make it work in a Mac* then sold it as a Mac graphics card - it would be up to the buyer to check it was compatible with their specific Mac (eg. making sure they had the right slot in their machine) before buying it.
*Not sure if this is necessary nowadays, but I'm sure it was in the PPC days.
