Company Offers Mac Clone, Then Crashes
Do you crave a Mac but baulk at shelling out thousands of dollars for Apple's alternative PCs?A company by the name of Psystar may have the answer for you. On Monday it released what it calls an Open Mac, for 400 dollars. The clones, which are standard Intel-based machines, use a piece of software wizardry called an Extensible Firmware Interface to trick Apple's Leopard operating system into thinking it is running on a genuine Mac.
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DDOS attack by Apple lol?
Bah... the article doesn't even include a link to the company's website... Don't waste your time on this...