I have a February, 2011 MBP and intend to pickup a new iMac desktop this Friday. If I want Lion on my two Apple computers will I have to purchase two sets of Lion disks or will one set work for both computers?
Bill
If history tell us anything one disk will work for as many installs as you want. But maybe they will try to tighten up security.
If history tell us anything one disk will work for as many installs as you want. But maybe they will try to tighten up security.
It's amazing what that kext is responsible for - it is by no means a useless kernel extension. As per the Wikipedia article:I really don't believe Apple has a kext running in it's os that's called 'Don't Steal OSX' just for the fun of it.
The extension contains a kernel function called page_transform() which performs AES decryption of "apple-protected" programs. A Mac OS X system which is missing this extension, or a system where the extension has determined it's not running on Apple hardware, will be missing this decryption capability, and as a result will not be able to run the Apple-restricted binaries Dock, Finder, loginwindow, SystemUIServer, mds, ATSServer, translate, or translated.
It's amazing what that kext is responsible for - it is by no means a useless kernel extension. As per the Wikipedia article:
This was done as Apple expected people to hack the Intel version to run on non-Apple hardware and they wanted to remind them of their agreed upon obligations when they agreed to the EULA.Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
Mac OS 10.7 "Lion" hasn't even been released yet!!!
- Nick
In case you're interested, here is the part of the EULA that we are referring to:I didn't realize the end user agreement prohibited using the disk on more than one computer.
Source.Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, unless you have purchased a Family Pack or Upgrade license for the Apple Software, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time.