[SOLVED] I know hackintosh are illegal, therefore isn't upgrading a macbook illegal?

[Akhil10]

Hi,

I have read many forum pages on the legality of Hackintosh. Its clear that running mac OS on non-apple hardware is illegal as of the EULA terms that you agree to initially. But I wondered about a few things:

- Is it therefore illegal to upgrade a MacBook, from an HDD to SSD, since the SSD is not apple-hardware? or upgrade anything in the macbook like RAM, etc.?
- What exactly is defined as apple hardware, is it the laptop case, RAM, everything, everything expect the storage solution like HDD or what?
- Is it legal to buy a Macbook with mac os on it, take out the hdd from it and plug it into a PC?
- Is it legal to buy a snow leopard DVD from apple and install it on a pc?


Kind Regards,
Akhil

 

[toshibitsu]

Starting with the 2016 models, Macbooks now have the CPU, GPU, Memory and SSD all integrated into the logic board. So if you want to "upgrade" anything, you have to replace the whole logic board.

Thank you Apple

 

[ex_bubblehead]

- Is it therefore illegal to upgrade a MacBook, from an HDD to SSD, since the SSD is not apple-hardware? or upgrade anything in the macbook like RAM, etc.?

No, it is not "illegal" to replace a hard drive or RAM. It does not have to be Apple branded but Apple may, on some models, make modifications such that generic drives and/or memory may not function properly.

- What exactly is defined as apple hardware, is it the laptop case, RAM, everything, everything expect the storage solution like HDD or what?

The motherboard is the PC/Mac

- Is it legal to buy a Macbook with mac os on it, take out the hdd from it and plug it into a PC?

No. One may not, legally, run an Apple OS on anything other than an Apple branded computer.

- Is it legal to buy a snow leopard DVD from apple and install it on a pc?

No.