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Psystar Exits Bankruptcy, Launches New Xeon-Based Systems Running OS X

Wow these guys are playing dirty, lol I love it :D

Go Psystar!

I really pray for the day OSX is made available for all PC owners, and I am not talking about OSX86, I mean real deal OSX from Apple.

They make a killer OS, now if they would fight on the PC's home turf. they would really slaughter Windows.
 
capoeirista said:
Only one FW400 port as standard? Fail.

Seriously though, hooray for competition!
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So you endorse competition doing illegal things with another companies IP in order to compete?

I agree with competition is good, but when a company uses another companies IP without permission and thus change the coding of the product so it will work for them is unethical and illegal. That is why I view Psystar as scumbags and to a certain extent with Palm( for the whole iTunes thing). You want to compete with Apple using their IP? Get their permission. If they say no, suck it up and develop your own competing product.
 
I want to know how they can legitimately offer the combined iLife and iWork for only $60 with CPU purchase. Are they using official licensed packages?

Also, when you configure the Open7 to as close to a low-end Mac Pro specs as you can get, it's about $2000, not $1500.

Mark
 
Wow... Does Pystar or the company(s) supporting it have any dignity at all? Stop picking on a company that is the backbone of the computer industry. Who abandoned SCSI for USB? Who abandoned floppies? Who gave professionals FireWire? Who is the main driving force behind DisplayPort? Who is the creator of OpenCL? And which company poked a huge stick up the mobile industry rear end and pushed them to create better smartphoness (ex. iPhone, Instinct, Touch Diamond, Vu, Viewty, Dare)?
 
Mark Booth said:
I want to know how they can legitimately offer the combined iLife and iWork for only $60 with CPU purchase. Are they using official licensed packages?

Also, when you configure the Open7 to as close to a low-end Mac Pro specs as you can get, it's about $2000, not $1500.

Mark
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I believe the cost of Leopard ($129) is included in the price of the computer, so it costs them $40 to bump you up to the Mac Box Set ($169) + a $20 profit.
 
SnowLeopard2008 said:
Wow... Does Pystar or the company(s) supporting it have any dignity at all? Stop picking on a company that is the backbone of the computer industry.
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Um.. i wouldn't consider it picking on Apple. And to be honest, not sure where your getting the idea that apple is the backbone of the industry
 
no matter if it does bring apple to come across a financial conscience (not that im complaining about the gear being too expensive, i pay for what i get which is a laptop/computer which works!) what pystar is doing illegal in quite a few different ways! lol its ridiculous!

PTP
 
While I think it's ok for an individual to hack their machine in an attempt to install OS X, I have a problem with a (supposed) business doing the same. Don't we expect companies to be ethical? Psystar is hardly ethical here.

If they win, I guess I can:
- Go out and buy the 6+ packs of Tic-Tacs
- Buy really cheap plastic containers
- Empty the Tic-Tacs from the original containers that say "not for individual resale" and move them to my own plastic containers
- Sell them for less than a normal individual pack, yet more than the discount for buying bulk

Can someone tell me why that's not legal? If Psystar can do it, despite the EULA, then so can I. For that matter, who else out on MacRumors sells stuff that I can buy, repackage, and manage to sell at a profit? "Competition is good," remember? I will compete with you using YOUR product, since you think it's ok.

Anyone who supports Psystar is clueless (or the criminals behind the operation).
 
LiquidSpikes said:
Wow these guys are playing dirty, lol I love it :D

Go Psystar!

I really pray for the day OSX is made available for all PC owners, and I am not talking about OSX86, I mean real deal OSX from Apple.

They make a killer OS, now if they would fight on the PC's home turf. they would really slaughter Windows.
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That would kill OSXs "killer" feature. There'll be millions of drivers and it'll suck if it goes for all the PCs out there.
 
Awesome for Psystar! This is about the same level of competition as when Steve Jobs stole Xerox's graphical user interface.
 
This company is ridiculous. They certainly have a lot of fight but they're going to lose. To be able to stand up against Apple like this they have to have someone backing them. I think Michael Dell is behind Psystar, he has said he would love to sell OSX on his computer in the past.
 
Cartoonkid said:
The BK filing allowed them to get out of paying most, if not all, of those legal fees, as well as screwing all of their suppliers in the process. So now they get to start with a clean slate.
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Ah...but now that they're out of bankruptcy, Apple can demand damages. Before, they'd have to get permission from the bankruptcy courts before getting any money out of Psystar. IMO, not a bright move by Psystar and it's silent partners. They should have waited to see what the results of the initial lawsuit. If they lose, they pay nothing. If they win, come out of bankruptcy and start making oodles of moolah.
 
"When life gives you apples, make applesauce"

Bahaha.
But seriously, I really don't know quite what they are thinking with their whole idea of "taking on Apple". I seriously dought they are going to get any more market share then they already have, but we'll see I suppose. :p
 
Tilpots said:
I'd hold these "illegal" remarks until there's a verdict. Let the judge decide what's illegal and what's not.
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Seeing how Macs have a chip that the OS scans to look for when booting up, Psystar will have to do something to OS X in order to remove that coding or trick it to think the chip is there, but is not.
 
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