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Can Mac os work on dell?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Theoretically yes (the chips inside are the same) but Apple (who make Mac OS) make it so that Mac Os will only work on Apple's own brand computers and sue anybody who tries to crack this. Thus the answer is NO.

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