In what is probably the most surprising non-celebrity-death story in weeks, recently bankrupt Psystar—surly maker of all things hackintosh—is now claiming to be ready for a comeback, with a new product in tow. This makes very little...
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As part of their bankruptcy filings, Hackintosh maker Psystar declared that they owed Apple $75,000 for something or other.
A week after Psystar filed for Chapter 11, a company called Quo has stepped in hoping to offer unauthorized Mac machines online and in a retail store near Downtown LA.
Psystar—those guys who were pilfering software from the Hackintosh project to run Mac OS X in blah PC hardware—has filed for Chapter 11. Good riddance, is all I can say. Although this may be a shady legal strategy on their part.
Repeat after me: Psystar computers are not Mac OS X clones (to be Mac clones they need EFI firmware. They don't have it and that's why they are as crappy as any other Hackintosh computer.) That out of the way, according to a MacRumors reader, they...
Someone got the first Open(3)—the kind-of-slimline Psystar Mac "clone"—and posted a lot of pics. Like its guts, it just looks like any other Hackintosh. You know, the ones you can make yourself.
Somehow, between filing bogus legal claims and getting sued into oblivion by one of the most powerful companies in the industry, Psystar managed to design another flagrantly-infringing hackintosh desktop—this time, a tiny one.
As evidenced by Apple's legal troubles in Europe, our friends across the Atlantic don't see the whole "antitrust" and "license agreement" thing like us Amer'cuns. Thus, PearC: the Hackintosh cloner that just might survive.
If Palm ends up in court over the Pre's multitouch, it'll join a prestigious line of firms that have tussled with Apple, which loves a good legal battle almost as much as sexy aluminum.
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