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Arrow Psystar Mac Clone Changes Name Amid Apple Controversy
Psystar, the little company out of Miami Florida unveiled its Hackintosh now dubbed; Open Computer (previously named OpenMac). It's a PC that runs OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard) completely outside support from Apple. Somewhere an alarm is sounding at Apple awakening the legal team.


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Psystar may want to be proactive and contact Kurt Denke of Blue Jeans Cable.

Interestingly, but not suprisingly, yesterday when I read about this company and their offering I could not access the website. Today it is slow. Seems like a nice alternative though. At least for the next two weeks until Steve has them shut down!

Poor little guys
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Apple has good reason to be so tough on this. They tried letting others make macs in the 90's and it darn near ruined the company. I still have a power computing mac somewhere in storage. Apple is a hardware company that makes some software. The money Apple makes is from hardware sales. One of the reasons that OS X is rock solid is because Apple has such tight control of how the software interacts with the hardware. I have no love for Jobs, however I have not had a single software issue with OS X since jaguar. I can not say that about any windows machine I own, have owned or worked on; EVER!!

of course being unix based certainly helps with OS X stability.
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They had to be from Miami! I'm surprised it didn't run on green plantains and croquetas.
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Before anyone considers sending these guys money for a system, please check gizmodo.com. They have story about Psystar possibly being a hoax.
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On the other hand I don't think it would really be such a bad thing to let someone like Dell offer a PC that Apple would support OS X on. So long as they could maintain strict hardware requirements and be up front about what is and is not supported it might not be such a bad thing. People hate Vista and are just looking for a way to switch.
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