[Tfug] Roll your own Mac

[Mr Brevity]

On 9/23/2014 4:32 PM, Bender wrote:
>> I could just as easily buy one and RETURN IT (which,
>> I am sure, would piss Apple off far more than running an unlicensed
>> install for a week!)
>
> how do you figure that?

A returned unit has to be sold -- and then reinventoried (refurbished
and/or resold at a "used" price).  I.e., there is a cost to every
sale and every return.