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Psystar Declares Gutsiness With New Apple Clone

Written on March 18, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

Apparently Psystar isn’t content to sit back and rest on their laurels (which consist primarily of being really good at making loud fan noise). Despite the ongoing legal battle between themselves and Apple, they just released yet another addition to their line of Mac clones. The new machine, called the Open(3), is obviously meant to [...]

Mac Clones: Where Does Apple Draw the Line?

Written on December 17, 2008 by Tom Reestman and 27 people have commented

With all the hoopla surrounding Psystar these days, a few other companies have jumped on board the Mac clone bandwagon. In some cases they’re using somewhat, shall we say, unique, methods. Still, the intent is clear: skirt Apple’s EULA and sell a solution that allows Mac OS X to run on generic PC hardware. In [...]

Carbon Copy Cloner Makes Creating Bootable Backups Easy

Written on November 25, 2008 by Charles Moore and 2 people have commented

One of the things I loved about the old Mac OS Classic was that to create a bootable disk, all you had to do was make a folder named System Folder, drag in System and Finder files and an Appearance Folder, then drag your bare-bones System Folder to a disk — hard drive, Zip, floppy, [...]

Apple to Psystar: It is Over.

Written on July 16, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 11 people have commented

Now that Apple has gotten over the stress of selling the iPhone 3G, they have turned their attention to other matters that are not as pressing as the activation fiasco.
Apple sued Psystar on July 3rd (when everyone was too busy worrying about the iPhone launch) and asked that all the computers that Psystar has [...]

OpenServ – Psystar is at it again…

Written on June 20, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 4 people have commented

Psystar, you know, those crazy people that brought us the Open Computer Mac clone (and still have not been shut down by Apple) announced today that they are releasing OpenServ Rack-Mount Servers and OpenGamer Gaming Systems, which will run Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and Leopard Server, and your various varieties of Linux server distros.

The [...]