Saturday, April 19th, 2008
When we last checked in on super shady Mac cloner Psystar’s gridskipping ways, they’d supposedly somehow managed to land a $6 million pad—a little fishy, given their brief history. A ZDNet reader on the ground got up close, reporting that there’s definite activity at the location, though no hard confirmation it’s Psystar that’s the busy bee. More importantly, Psystar claims they’re “up and running” and have started shipping orders placed the week of April 7, with orders from last week going out on April 21 from their new shop.
Tracking numbers are supposed to go out when your order ships, so if anyone ordered two weeks ago, you should have gotten yours already. And anyone ballsy enough to jump in after the slime started to hit the fan should theoretically get ‘em on Monday. If you’ve ordered one, let us know how it goes. A huge thanks to all of you pushing this thing forward, please keep the tips coming. [ZDNet, Thanks JB!]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Psystar, who’s just announced that they’re going to sell a $399.99 Mac clone called Open Mac, doesn’t care that Apple’s EULA prohibits using OS X on any machine not made by Apple. In fact, they say that Apple’s terms “violate U.S. monopoly laws“, posing the example of Microsoft theoretically saying you could only install Windows on Dell machines.
They also told Information Week that they weren’t breaking any laws, and that they were going to continue to sell this system no matter what Apple says. Another example the employee gave was this: “What if Honda said that, after you buy their car, you could only drive it on the roads they said you could?” Even if Psystar’s machines aren’t anything spectacular, if they can set a legal precedent for third-party manufacturers selling OS X-bundled machines, that would be a win for everybody. [InformationWeek - Thanks Achal!]
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