Quote from: Guru on June 24, 2012, 01:13 amQuote from: vlad1m1r on June 23, 2012, 11:09 pmQuote from: Aghe123 on June 23, 2012, 08:03 pmHello all :),I wonder if the Mac Store is safe. Does someone has already bought it?thank youps: link : euhesnelvaqifqk4.onionHi Aghe123,Some of the more grizzled SR Veterans and I* were taking a peek at this around a month ago ; it's one of the first darknet sites I've ever been on and hasn't been updated since then. The prices aren't particularly good for stolen merchandise in any case(!) There's no reason they couldn't offer their products directly on SR - we toyed with the idea of having a whip round each putting in fifty dollars to buy one laptop to see if they were trustworthy but decided against it.V.*I do not count myself amongst them!Personally speaking, I always think that dealing in stolen merchandise is a bad idea. That goes double when: 1) The goods are serialized; and2) The goods require updates (software) from the manufacturer. Depending on how these were acquired (i.e. from individuals or from say, a truckload shipment theft) the serial numbers of these machines are likely to be listed as stolen. I wouldn't be in a hurry to purchase one. GuruGood point Guru, thanks!I suppose the demand for stolen prices is driven by the huge prices for Macbooks. I only know a little about IT but when I was replacing the hard drive on my friend's Macbook last year I got to take a look at the bare bones of the device and I'm still not sure what exactly it is that people are getting for their money when there are x86 laptops with similar specs selling for less half the price?I suppose the advantage of Apple's insistence on having a monopoly on the OS and applications are that they can be better attuned to work with their own hardware but I still fail to see what I'm getting for my money - I have been running Ubuntu on one laptop and had access to a couple of Macbooks for the past five years now and my only observation is that recording videos on Macbooks is slightly easier!Is there something I'm missing? Please enlighten me and others who don't know!V.