Psystar Software Will Make Your PC Run OS X
Psystar fears no Apple.
Apple is a company that likes to control the experience of its customers. It likes to craft its products from top to bottom, both in hardware and software.
Ever since Apple went with Intel processors, the hardware differences between Macs and PCs became minimal. The software that runs on the hardware, however, remains very different mostly due to Mac OS X.
Windows runs natively on a Mac thanks to Boot Camp, but the relationship is mostly just one way. In Apple's EULA, it states that its Mac OS X software may only be used on Apple hardware – something that PC enthusiasts find unfortunate and restrictive.
Psystar, seemingly fearless in its technological adventures hackintosh-related, has released a new software tool called Rebel EFI that advertises the ability to install any OS on PCs with Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem CPUs. Of course, by "any OS," the company is clearly pushing Mac OS X.
If you've been wondering what all the fuss is about surrounding Mac OS X, this could be one experimental/economical way to find out. Psystar currently has a time-limited demo available for download for those to try out in order to decide if it's effective enough to be worth the $49.99 purchase price.
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It works, and it's worth it.
Gentlemen, start your attorneys.
I see nothing unfortunate. I must be in the minority of pc enthusiasts.
Didn't psystar get caught a while ago simply ripping off open source projects and selling them as their own?
psystar has always seemed a little shady, but I give them credit for sticking it to apple. If apple wanted such exclusivity, they should have stuck to their own hardware instead of copying windows machines.
That was EFI-X...
props for them sticking it to the man
I smell a law suit..... Tomorrows story "Apply Sues Psystar Over Patent Infringing Software".
If apple wanted such exclusivity, they should have stuck to their own hardware instead of copying windows machines.
That is one of the stupidest statements that I have heard in quite sometime. Copying Windows machines? The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer. The first home computer with a GUI or graphical user interface was the Apple Lisa. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made the first ready-made personal computer. The Apple II was one of the first computers with a color display. The Apple Newton MessagePad is one of the first-ever Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) - a term coined by Apple's then-CEO John Sculley. Then there is the iPod and all of the "firsts" that came with it.
So what is it that Apple is copying from the "PC"?" Please don't say the OS.
pple was the company that made personal computing affordable and they have always been knocked for being so proprietary. If you are referring to the OS, well you need to read about the OS wars and learn who stole what from whom.
I'm running AMD machines... Damn!
As much as I dislike Apple, I do want to learn how to use OS X cheaply.
Gentlemen, start your attorneys.
So true and so sad. Who the hell Apple is to tell me what I can install or not in MY hardware!? If I paid for it, I can do as much as I want to with it.
OSX Server can be run in a VM. but that probably wont be cheap though... But if your running an AMD chip with virtualization support it's possible.
Wow, $49 for the Psystar software and $29 for the OS. It's cheaper to try out Mac OSX than it is to try Windows 7.
NOTE: I would also like to point out that Tom's is currently conducting a poll regarding a Mac OS section in the forums.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/32340-12-forum
Good luck playing games like Modern warfare 2 and others. Graet for the business types I guess. OS X sucks for gamers.
Try the Chameleon Bootloader - it is free, and works like a real OS X machine with updates and not like a hackinstosh.
http://aserebln.blogspot.com/
For $78 I might buy an apple os.
After some quick searching I see this is not the first software that allows you to do this (although its probably a fair bit easier) Interesting to me, ultimately useless but I will play around with it
I'm running AMD machines... Damn!As much as I dislike Apple, I do want to learn how to use OS X cheaply.
Well you can still use typical Hackintosh like everyone else. At least it's somehow free.
How does Psystar expect to stay in business with such blatent lawsuit infringement. At least EFI-X stood a chance because it wasn't made "exclusively" to install OSx on PCs, it just gave you the option to. Course EFI-X also stole from open source communities.
does it run on atom?
Why would you buy a product to install any operating system on a PC when those products are already available for free?
Yes, because MS owns intel, nvidia, and AMD...
Except they don't. Why don't you start getting mad at the Wii and PS3 for 'copying windows machines'. And also they didn't use there own hardware before the intel switch. Their CPU's were from IBM, their graphics were from ATI and Nvidia.
is this like bringing in a picky mother in law MA-COSX (yah read it slowly).. to my humble house which hosts my wife (Vistie) who's bumming around watching soaps all day eating bonbons i mean memory like a hog. while I have fun making out with our can DO IT ALL MADE (SUSE) in laundry room downstairs? can someone not open the door when she arrives plz?
If apple wanted such exclusivity, they should have stuck to their own hardware instead of copying windows machines.
Its not "copying windows machines." Its using the most cost-effective hardware options--a decision that is the same for all PC vendors. Apple tried to be independent, but gave up after Motorola kept sucking so much at producing the PPC chips.
I think this is great. I would love to dual boot a PC--then we can do a comparative OS speed test and see if the OS speed results are correct.
Also.. there are some functional reasons to dual boot- you could do design in OS X and switch to windows for outlook/gaming.
1 way licensing agreement not really valid, because the user buys the product effectively making the manufacturer agree for to the users use before the licensing can be approved on by the user.
im hoping to see a mac osx and win 7 speed comparison on this soon.... make sure that you don't update the mac drivers and the windows drivers are up to date and optimized. i want to see the results
and yet another mac story by marcus yam
[the hardware differences between Macs and PCs became minimal]
try to setup a 3 way SLI, or crossfire, install a Phenom II, atom, Thinsoft Betwin (without crashes), 6 SSD in RAID0. Please. Apple sucks.
The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer.
One of the first. It was a bare single board computer costing about 700 1975 dollars.
The first home computer with a GUI or graphical user interface was the Apple Lisa.
Ripped off from Xerox - even the single button mouse. And a computer selling for 10,000 1982 dollars is hardly a "home" computer.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made the first ready-made personal computer. The Apple II was one of the first computers with a color display.
Again, one of the first. TRS80 and Commodore PET were contemporaries. And Wozniak was the brains behind Apple. Jobs did the marketing, which admittedly was not difficult. We were all so hungry for computing power back then that you could easily sell just about anything that could add two binary numbers together.
The Apple Newton MessagePad is one of the first-ever Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) - a term coined by Apple's then-CEO John Sculley.
Yes, and it died.
So what is it that Apple is copying from the "PC"?" Please don't say the OS.
Everything but the OS - CPU, IDE and now SATA, USB, PCI and PCI-e.
Apple was the company that made personal computing affordable
Go to the online Apple Store and price the 8 GB memory upgrade for the 17" Macbook Pro. $1200.
and they have always been knocked for being so proprietary.
Proprietary? That's their way of maintaining control of their profit margins.
Didn't psystar get caught a while ago simply ripping off open source projects and selling them as their own?
Isn't Macintosh the same?
If I remember correctly, it's just BSD linux...
$50 for this is pure bullshit.
You already can put Macintosh on most PC platforms, the main limiting factor is the motherboard (if I remember correctly)...
I see nothing unfortunate. I must be in the minority of pc enthusiasts.
Then so am I. The only reason I'd want this app is to piss of Steven.