Article 1SRG6 HacBook puts new Mac OS on old HP laptop

HacBook puts new Mac OS on old HP laptop

by
Rob Beschizza
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The HacBook Elite is a "fully-functional Mac running OS X for 1/3 the price," which is to say a refurbished HP EliteBook with OS X hacked to run on it. It only has an i5 CPU, 8GB RAM and a 1600x900 14-inch display-the claim this is equivalent to a 2013 MacBook Pro is eyebrow-raising, to say the least-but it's only $350, so you know what you're getting.

HacBook Elite ships with everything needed to start running the latest version of OS X. Once installed, OS X cold boots in 15 seconds and boots from sleep in 1 second.
" Perfect for developing iOS, Mac apps
" Dual-boot with Windows
" Comes with iTunes, iMessage, App Store, etc.
" Looks like a Mac.

Kinda.

My favorite part of the HacBook experience is the way the website imitates Apple's own, but all the images of text are blurry on high-DPI displays. The people who made (and would buy) HacBook don't even notice, but true Macolytes will get hives just looking at it.

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