Editing Macintosh clone (section)

===Hackintosh===
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When Apple migrated to the PC-Intel platform in the mid-2000s, Apple hardware was more or less the same as generic PC hardware from a platform perspective. This theoretically allowed for installation of Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware. ''Hackintosh'' is the term appropriated by hobbyist programmers, who have collaborated on the Internet to install versions of Mac OS X v10.4 onwards{{snd}} dubbed ''Mac OSx86''{{snd}}  to be used on [[Personal Computer|generic PC]] hardware rather than on Apple's own hardware. Apple contends this is illegal under the [[DMCA]], so in order to combat illegal usage of their operating system software, they continue to use methods to prevent Mac OS X (now macOS) from being installed on unofficial non-Apple hardware, with mixed success. At present, with proper knowledge and instruction, macOS installation is more or less straightforward.  Several online communities have sprung up to support end-users who wish to install macOS on non-Apple hardware.  Some representative examples of these are Dortania and InsanelyMac.