AppleTV Becomes OSX Workstation

An anonymous reader writes "AppleTVhacks published a full howto install guide with 12 easy steps to turn your AppleTV into a full blown OSX workstation. With a processor emulation, hacker Semthex of hackint0sh.org, managed to get full blown OSX working on a AppleTV. The kernel for this hack is freely available under APSL and opens the legal way to a really cheap Mac Nano. With 300$ difference to the Mac Mini, this is becoming a fairly interesting deal." April Fool's, btw.

What day is it again?

[crazyjeremy]

It is April 2nd now right? *pinches self* Weird... this all seems so real. He even posted videos!

Re:I dont get it?

[Constantine XVI]

Or...
You could wait till a disk image of the hacked A.TV shows up on the seedy underbelly of the Internet.

Re:I dont get it?

[Anonymous Coward]

You can try and be pendantic

What, hang around?

Re:I dont get it?

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

doesn't say that % of system has to be be Apple Hardware. It doesn't say that the machine in question has to be an Apple. It says "Apple Hardware".

From what I've read, it doesn't say that either. I believe it was "Apple labeled personal computer" or some such and I believe it does have a legal description of what that refers to.

So yes. A hackintosh is legal, as long as you have a piece of "Apple Hardware" on it, such as an Apple Keyboard.

Anyone who gets their legal advice free on Slashdot, probably gets what they paid for.

Re:Don't play dumb.

[TuringTest]

This is why I personally would prefer that everyone laugh at the PaintCo for assuming they'd agree to the ridiculous demands and just go buy Linux.

Yes, but does Linux run in wood fences?

Re:Don't play dumb.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is why I personally would prefer that everyone laugh at the PaintCo for assuming they'd agree to the ridiculous demands and just go buy Linux.

Linux is good for a lot of things, but it makes a terrible substitute for paint.

Re:I dont get it?

[Randolpho]

How can the Internet have a seedy underbelly when the whole damn thing is seedy?

Re:I dont get it?

[Anonymous Coward]

If the whole thing is seedy then the underbelly, being a part of it, will necessarily be seedy.