They could make it necessary for you to hop up and down on one foot while explaining your problem to an applecare representative, if they wanted. Apple can put whatever weird constraints they want in their warranty, as long as they are up front about them. They would have a very hard time telling people that they must run their software on their hardware, especially outside the US.Īlso, I agree with all of the statements that voiding a warranty is different from Illegality.
If Apple were to say that you could ONLY install alternate OS's with bootcamp, they would run into another problem. If Apple were to say that installation of alternate OS's was illegal, you couldn't use bootcamp. Sorry, this topic is so incredibly odd that I thought I should post.
They won't know Linux had ever been on there in the first place. If you take it in for repairs, you can just remove Linux. But since they encourage people installing Windows (despite all their "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" Windows-bashing commercials), it wouldn't make sense to say they think Linux will do damage to your computer that Windows won't.ģ. Boot Camp is designed to dual-boot with Windows, and there's no way Apple is going to provide tech support for Windows (I know this for a fact, because my father tried to get support for a dual-boot problem and both Microsoft and Apple blamed the other for his problems), so they wouldn't support Linux either. The Apple hardware warranty () is 69 pages and does not contain a single instance of the term operating system or Linux.Ģ. I don't really see how, practically speaking, they could use it against you, for three main reasons:ġ. More importantly, after you ask the Apple Store, ask another Apple Store. It's best to check straight with the source. Just a close friend, he said that if we install Ubuntu it might loose the warranty.