FWIW, here's the breakdown:
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/a...ers-Beats-street-posts-167B-profit/1255985794
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Psystar Releases 'Rebel EFI' Software to Enable Installation of Snow Leopard on PCs
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FWIW, here's the breakdown:
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/a...ers-Beats-street-posts-167B-profit/1255985794
Ok this thing is confusing.. it works great but it didnt install the darwin universal bootloader that is on the revel efi disc... im guessing it doesnt install because its a trial.. but after you buy an activation code it will allow you to use there program and install the bootloader?
I tried using chameleon but it buggered my install... so i am still using the rebel efi disc to boot up into snow leopard until i can find a way to obtain it...free because i dont want to pay $50 for a code. Besides im in the UK and paypal will eat me for transfering money etc...for some reason aswell iv notised the performance on snow leopard through this system is strange.. its fast even too fast... which i know sounds mental but hear me out..
The spinning disc at the start up spins much faster than on a real mac... or hackintosh.. and the animations of icons jumping on the dock look like there on speed! seriously they bounce very very fast
I tried using chameleon but it buggered my install... so i am still using the rebel efi disc to boot up into snow leopard until i can find a way to obtain it...free because i dont want to pay $50 for a code. Besides im in the UK and paypal will eat me for transfering money etc...for some reason aswell iv notised the performance on snow leopard through this system is strange.. its fast even too fast... which i know sounds mental but hear me out..
The spinning disc at the start up spins much faster than on a real mac... or hackintosh.. and the animations of icons jumping on the dock look like there on speed! seriously they bounce very very fast
Correct. Nice to see someone actually remembers.
Psystar is barely treading water at this point, and quite frankly, this latest act (the subject of this thread) is not going to win them any legal points.
Apple will never openly sell the OS for the PC because the Mac OS is the biggest selling point for the hardware, which is the part that Apple actually makes their money off of.
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Particularly interesting to note that the Mac computers are their biggest revenue generator, with iPhones in 2nd, and iPods/Music a distant 3rd
The Mac is still pretty much their core business.
Get a freaking clue. An EULA is not copyright. That has to do with the law, not any opinion of Apple, Microsoft or any other company or business practice. An EULA is a contract breaking of which would be remedied under a civil suit. Copyright violations are subject to civil and criminal penalties. That is a fact.
The fanboys really need to shut up around here about legal matters if they're clueless with respect to the law.
Your turning of my statement of fact into a personal attack is likely a violation of the terms of service you agreed to when you signed up for this site.
Particularly interesting to note that the Mac computers are their biggest revenue generator, with iPhones in 2nd, and iPods/Music a distant 3rd
The Mac is still pretty much their core business.
Yes, I underestimated the computer sales revenue. It's interesting to note though that the laptop market is doing 3 times better almost than the desktop market...
Anyway, good night!
It's a product released by Psystar. What did you expect? Quality? Testing? Support?
so i am still using the rebel efi disc to boot up into snow leopard until i can find a way to obtain it...free because i dont want to pay $50 for a code.
Wow. You're even looking for a way to rip off the pirates??
They still have some left after their Chapter 11 stunt to stall the court case ?
Funny how they got out of Chapter 11 just a few days after the courts deemed they weren't stopping the case because of the bankruptcy.
Funnier still is how they've been banned for any other Chapter 11 actions for 12 months and how the court has now decided that even Chapter 7 wasn't stalling the case against them.
The more this goes forward, the more they lose. Rebel EFI seems like a last ditch effort. I hope it's not based on Linux, because now they are violating the GPL and thus are commiting copyright infringment for that too
.Are you sure it isn't you that needs to think outside your own bubble? Ever consider that many windows users (you know the majority of computers out there) might actually buy Mac hardware if it had comparable processors, video cards, expandability, blu-ray, etc?
People here aren't debating whether Apple will sell its new hardware. Its why on earth would some people waste their time building a hackintosh or fighting the EULA? Its because there are better hardware options out there. Apple could easily address this, but choose not to. I can understand them holding the line on the 'Apple tax', but giving some extra upgrade options isn't going to put them under nor require them to redo their entire lineup just for me.
Well it doesn't like cpio:
Code:
prometheus:test pygmy$ cpio -id < initrd
cpio: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format: Inappropriate file type or formatIt's not gzipped, so I dunno, maybe it's not a Linux initrd..
Wow, maybe I can finally run Snow Leopard in full 64 bit mode, which my expensive 2008 Mac Pro cannot do.
What did you do to it to break it? Everyone else's 2008 Mac Pro runs the 64bit kernel just fine. Mine included.
This goes against every single market report I've read. Even Apple attributed its great profit this last quarter to its strong iPod and iPhone sales. I can't find even one report saying that the computers are making Apple a lot of money. It was Phil Schiller who said that the $999 MacBook is the best selling Mac. I can't find any specifics about the amount of money made on the MacBook vs iPod vs iPhone, but I know that the profit margin is huge on both the iPod and the iPhone. On the 3GS it is supposedly around a 60% profit margin.
You're setting up a straw man here. No one is suggesting Apple turn into a iPod shop. You remind me a lot of the people on the Blizzard forum who argue every time Blizzard changes something that it's going to kill WoW, yet WoW is doing just fine. And just the same, someday when Apple opens up OS X, and I do believe it will eventually happen, they'll do just fine as well.
Did I complain? did I say I expected support ? Testing ? Quality? no... Its a trial that im using anyways.
Im not "ripping" off pirates. you make me sound like im a pirate. I own macs/apple stuff... a spare copy of snow leopard etc etc.
You should go to bed your obviously one of those people who stick around in a thread causing fires
Did you try just running file on it to see what kind of file it is recognized as ? example :
# file /kernel/genunix
genunix: ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable SPARC Version 1
And what would the FreeBSD people be thinking about ? Who exactly is not respecting the BSD license ?
There will always be a few who want to circumvent, get it on the cheap (or even free), and disrespect the rights of the company. Not enough to matter.
Ignore them, like you would anywhere else. If they don't represent the majority of Apple's market, they don't matter in the grand scheme of things. Apple can't (and shouldn't) address everyone's personal needs and requests. That's life. You have the opportunity to go with a different company. So do it.
No? What difference does that make?
One is bundeling a browser with an os. The other one is bundeling hardware with an os.
And I'm in bed now
Love it time to update
haha, love this, going to have to pull out one of my old PC and see how it does, that said, xmas comes its iMac time. If apple was just OS X then I could see this been a hit, and yes for those who would never have bought a Mac this may get them to use it. Will that be such a bad thing? Not sure yet.
But for me those new i7 imac are just what the doctor ordered and considering the quality of the monitors as well as all metal (do i like that big time) I don't see people who could afford it walking away from mac hardware. Apple for the most part has done a great job of balancing small and thinness with power in their new line of products.
haha, love this, going to have to pull out one of my old PC and see how it does, that said, xmas comes its iMac time. If apple was just OS X then I could see this been a hit, and yes for those who would never have bought a Mac this may get them to use it. Will that be such a bad thing? Not sure yet.
But for me those new i7 imac are just what the doctor ordered and considering the quality of the monitors as well as all metal (do i like that big time) I don't see people who could afford it walking away from mac hardware. Apple for the most part has done a great job of balancing small and thinness with power in their new line of products.
I think you should've read this one :
Mac desktops + portables = 4B revenues. Biggest revenue generator.
Yeah, it just returns Data. I ran file on the osxlinuz file though:
Code:
prometheus:test kellyl$ file osxlinuz
osxlinuz: isolinux LoaderNow, I'm not sure if that's just the loader program, or if I can extract it. I tried gunzip, uncompress, and unzip...