Cable Forum - Apple Computers & Virgin Media Broadband.

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Originally Posted by Web-Junkie (Post 35068267)

Nope, not illegal. It's the full retail box with install media: OSX 10.6

The version I got was the later 10.6.3 version. What might be illegal is running it on non-mac hardware though?

I'm not going to argue whether installing mac software is legal on the non-apple hardware or not, as it's an incredibly complex legal issue ... but the Snow Leopard software is sold as an upgrade to Leopard, not as stand-alone software.

Even if you have a copy of Tiger (10.4) on Apple hardware, you're supposed to buy the Â£132 box-set to upgrade it.

Personally, I don't care what other people do with the software - I just think the comparison with the cost of a full version of Windows was unfair. It's a great operating system which can stand on its own abilities, without being misrepresented as cheap.

It really is a fabulous operating system, but it's even better on Apple hardware! :)