Apple’s repair kill switch hasn’t been activated yet
I understood the “kill switch” to be a “warranty (i.e. AppleCare) void” switch more than a literal kill switch.<p>You can, with enough work, make <i>any</i> computer—even one that’s not from Apple—into a working Mac. But there’s no amount of effort you can go to that will make Apple suddenly decide to offer warranty coverage on your Hackintosh.<p>I imagine the point here would be to effectively treat computers cobbled together out of externally-sourced Apple compatible parts (i.e. parts where the computer doesn’t “know” it’s not a Mac) as equivalent to Hackintoshes from a warranty standpoint.<p>This is partially justified—as it stands, a repair shop can actually take 50% of the parts from a Mac, replace them with compatible parts, then build a new computer from the 50% of parts you took out and <i>other</i> compatible parts, and end up delivering <i>two</i> Macs that would both be considered to be under warranty. (Not that they have AppleCare registrations, but that they’re under <i>legally madated</i> first-year warranty coverage in many jurisdictions.) The software Apple has developed circumvents this problem.<p>You might not agree with it, and it might have some other negative consequences... but what other solution is there to this particular problem? (I mean, besides eating the repair costs of—and even assuming legal liability for!—these “faux” Macs.)