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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by PopeOfNope on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @10:37AM (#9646120)
At the very least, it's less hassle than linux thanks largely to well supported hardware. As for the beauty of the hardware and software, it becomes less so with every passing year.
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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by josteink on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @10:43AM (#9646156)
On the contrary I find OSX's hardware support very poor compared to Linux.

I can buy any Thinkpad and boot Ubuntu with all hardware detected and functional. I cannot do the same with OSX.

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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by PopeOfNope on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @11:07AM (#9646310)
> I can buy any Thinkpad and boot Ubuntu with all hardware detected and functional.

Until you try to hook up an external screen, then all bets are off. I know because I recently attempted to do just that (w530, ubuntu 14.04 LTS). Compare that to buying a macbook pro and it's no contest. The hardware is simply better supported.

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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by leonatan on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @01:08PM (#9647263)
That's a straw man argument. If you buy a purpose build hardware for Ubuntu support, you will get a similar working result. As well as on many other configurations. On the other hand OS X only truly supports Apple hardware. Almost every Hacintosh build suffers from some kind of incompatibility.
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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by PopeOfNope on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @02:14PM (#9647819)
> On the other hand OS X only truly supports Apple hardware.

I don't care about pendantics. I care if I can plug a monitor into my laptop and have the damned thing work. Guess which one doesn't require me to battle with video drivers and make changes to the bios just to use the displayport?

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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by sbuk on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @02:20PM (#9647866)
So was josteink's!
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Re:Install OS X 10.10 Yosemite in VirtualBox by supercoder on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @07:41PM (#9649731)
Well I can certainly buy any Macbook and boot OSX and have all hardware detected and functional too.
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