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Psystar video demo OS X clone; at least one customer claims delivery

By Chris Davies on Sunday, Apr 27th 2008 1 Comment

Psystar likely expected to incur the wrath of Apple at some point during their OS X clone business, but they perhaps didn’t predict the amount of ire from outraged Mac fans. Having been branded both criminals and vaporware-peddlers, the company has attempted to rebuke at least the latter of those accusations with a video purporting to be their Open Computer system running, in three different setups, OS X, ubuntu and Windows Vista. You can see the video after the cut, but be warned it’s already got the conspiracy theorists muttering.

Psystar Open Computer OS X demo

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Why Apple Shouldn’t License OS X to other hardware vendors

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 15th 2008 28 Comments

Psystar has brought into the public light an issue that has long plagued the tech industry. Why does Apple keep their software closed to only Apple’s hardware? Several projects have sprouted, some even growing wings, that are efforts to bring OS X, and all its updates, to custom built X86 machines, including OSX86, and most recently Psystar. So, now you are likely wondering, why I think Apple should work as hard as they do to keep the supply of OS X-base computers to just Apple hardware.

Mac mini

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Psystar Back Up! Mac clone now called Open Computer instead of OpenMac

By James Allan Brady on Tuesday, Apr 15th 2008 1 Comment

A simple name change has Psystar back on their feet selling their cheap desktop computers that are configurable with OS X on them. They’ve also added a new computer to their lineup, the OpenPRO which is available with a lot better case, comes standard with an 8000 series GeForce card and a 10k RPM HDD as well as a couple gigs of RAM.

PsystarOpenPRO