Psystar Debuts New, Sleek OS X Hackintosh
Psystar’s headlines as of late, okay, for the last year and a bit, have been about the company’s legal battle with Cupertino-based Apple. Today the company has a bit of good(?) news for the masses: A new addition to its Mac clone line.
The company is calling the latest Open computer, the Open (3), “Smaller, Faster and Sexier” and says it will include Intel’s E7400 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo making it 50 percent faster than previous models. Processor aside you’re looking at 500 GB HDD, 8400GS graphics unit and 2 GB of DDR2 RAM. If you’re willing to go over $600, optional features include upgrading to a Core 2 Quad, GeForce 9500GT 512 MB (DVI + VGA), a Blu-ray burner, Firewire, Bluetooth, wireless and extended warranty.
While the base specs are great value for the price, almost everyone who’s shopping with Psystar is only interested in one thing: the fact that the computer ships with Mac OS X pre-installed. This little perk is something that landed the company in trouble with Apple and the two have been fighting it out in court since this time last year. It’s one big mess of counter-suits and appeals but it hasn’t stopped one German company from coming out with their own Mac clone, which it claims is perfectly legal. Apple’s beef is that the OS X EULA states that the software can only be installed on an Apple branded machine. Germany-based Hypermeganet says that because of German law, Apple’s EULA is void. The company’s main argument is that since the customer can’t read the EULA before purchase (it being sealed inside), it’s not valid.
Check out the Psystar website for ordering and preordering. No word on UK pricing yet, unfortunately.

Apple knows the OS is the ONLY reason people buy their computers (its certainly not the overpriced, off-the-shelf components inside). As such, if they just started selling their OS, they would loose all the money they make off computers. Would you serisouly pay twice as much for a computer just because it has the Apple sticker on it? Trust me, charging hundreds of dollars for 2GB upgrades in memory makes them a lot more money than selling copies of their os at $199 a piece.
Being a mac man myself I would love to see OS X released for the masses. At the moment I don't own a mac, only an extra HDD in my homebuild for hackintosh. Being able to run OS X natively in my rig would be phenomenal.
It is like microsoft will never want to allow Halo to be played on PS3 (not a prefect example.. but you know what I mean..
OMG.. that statement is SOO ridiculous and brilliant all @ once.
You can buy OSX ? im not following what you guys are saying...
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC094Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA&mco=MzgxNDk3OQ
You didn't hear about that? It's been their argument since the beginning of the case.
Wha?
Do you mean "can't" rather than "can"?
You can't install OSX on any system of your choice without hacks. And it's against OSX's EULA, which is what this whole case is about.
System build to run OSX that aren't made by apple are called "Hackintoshes", but the problem is you can't use any old hardware. OSX only has support for very specific motherboards, processors, and graphics cards.
For OSX to work on all the hardware that works with Windows means huge driver support, and it also means OSX can no longer be optimized for specific hardware.
Earlier two people were saying if OSx was released to the public it would get killed with hardware issues.
I’m saying it is released to the public; you can just go buy it.
, no purchase necessary.
It’s not released to the masses with full support if installed on your own hardware…
I wish I could delete my posts on this thread! Lol, total brain collapse.
http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
Which in turn if we're to relate back to the subject at hand, 7 can also EASILY run on probably ALL of Psystar desktop configurations.