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Psystar Dares to Come up with Mac-alternative Amidst Legal Battle

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As makers of the Mac OS X, Apple reserves the right to make it exclusive to the hardware it manufactures. The operating system goes on to drive the company's Mac desktops, workstations and notebooks. Manufacturers of Mac-alternatives (we don't mean PC by that), computers that use Mac OS X had started to mushroom. Due to the retail availability of Mac OS X, hardware manufacturers could easily get a hold of the software, and perhaps even evade measures by Apple to secure the software's exclusivity to its hardware, by means of trusted platform modules. Apple has either shut down, or is in the process of shutting down, such manufacturers.

Psystar is one of the few such companies left. Despite an ongoing legal battle with Apple, the company is continuing to make Mac-alternatives, and is ready with its latest offering: Open(3). The desktop comes with a wide range of components to choose from, to customize it before purchase, Mac Pro style. On offer are several models of Intel processors: Core 2 Duo E7400, E8400, Core 2 Quad Q8200, and Q8400. Up to 4 GB of RAM can be chosen. Entry-level NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, up to 1 TB of storage, a 20X DVD Writer, with Blu ray drive as an option, make for the rest of the mix. Prices start at US $599, and can end up as high as $2000. Apple's move to go x86 surely made its legal team busier, not that there were no Mac-alternatives before that.



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Well to think about it, Mac OS core is a Variant of Linux/Unix, infact it is known as Darwin. The other question is, will the Mac OS support Multi Core Processors and these vid cards since these are Full Blown PCs. Because I know AMD have been deving Cards for the Mac for some time.
 

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These guys crack me up. I was following it all when they first started to release them. I myself dont care for apple soo this makes me smile every time I see it.
 

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I remember when Apple started having this company make clones then pressed charges against them which then bought them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing

My mother was working the Line for that company at the time.
 
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Well to think about it, Mac OS core is a Variant of Linux/Unix, infact it is known as Darwin.
:banghead:

Linux, nope. Unix, no not really completely, despite Apple's claims.

Mac OS X consists of some BSD and XNU (The Mach kernel, developed at Carnegie Melon), all sort of bundled up in a slightly mishy-mashy way. It's a wonderful design though, but not as perfect as the Monolithic Linux kernel.
 

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Shame that apple don't let us commoners use their software like microsoft does. Its not like microsofts strategy to let any hardware work with windows was a failure :)
 

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Shame that apple don't let us commoners use their software like microsoft does. Its not like microsofts strategy to let any hardware work with windows was a failure :)

Well if they did that, then Apple couldn't charge completely outragous prices for their hardware.:laugh:
 

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Well if they did that, then Apple couldn't charge completely outragous prices for their hardware.:laugh:

I know thats why they do it :p but I think microsofts strategy was a little better.
 
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