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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by qplex on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @12:10AM (#13362766)
>OS X will work on any hardware it is permitted to operate on.

I've actually hacked the OS X installer to work on an older MacBook that wasn't "supported" anymore.

I think it was OS X 10.5 and the installer had something like this in there:

if(MacBook<3,1) ThrowError();

Rather amusingly everything worked after I changed that one line in the script...

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Re:From OS X to Ubuntu by 20after4 on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @01:59AM (#13363212)
I did the exact same thing! I was a tiny bit proud of that clever hack. It was just too easy to really feel good about it though.
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