# Old John C. Dvorak column - where to find?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-john-c-dvorak-column-where-to-find/761059 "2016-07-27T20:21:36Z")\
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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Even today, if somebody made a cleanroom clone of any Apple device there is no way Apple would sell them the appropriate Apple OS.

There’s no need to speculate about this because Apple hardware is just generic PC hardware in a (maybe) nicer case. As such, you can just buy off-the-shelf hardware that matches Apple products and build a [Hackintosh](http://www.hackintosh.com/). It is of course totally unsupported and possibly illegal (depends on how enforceable the EULAs are), but in any case the barrier isn’t technology.

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