That future may already be unfolding: Hackers have found a way to bypass a chip designed to prevent the Mac OS from running on non-Apple PCs, which are often cheaper than Macs.Source: WIRED
There have been conflicting reports about Apple using a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in their new development kits. It sounds like they did.
And you just knew it would only be a (short) amount of time before this new Mac OS on vanilla Intel hardware was hacked. It was as if Apple was just taunting people to defy them.
