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Re: Checking for hackintosh


  • Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
  • From: "Chris Suter" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:24:11 +1000

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <email@hidden>wrote:

> Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a hackintosh by
> the descriptions of support requests they are submitting?


Sure, if customers are willing to disclose that they're running on a
Hackintosh which isn't usually the case.


> If not are you sure your code checks return values and is designed to fail
> gracefully?


Of course, but we don't support Hackintosh's so we don't test on them and
they are different (especially where disk utilities are concerned).

I was just making the point that it would be useful to be able to detect
whether you're running on a Hackintosh *if* there was a reliable way of
doing it.

-- Chris
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