Psystar releases new Mac clone

Nicole Martinelli ()

Psystar releases new Mac clone
Psystar Corp., the Florida company fighting with Apple in federal court over selling computers that run Mac OS X, launched a new, slimmer clone.

The $600 Open(3) computer, sold exclusively on the company’s website,  has an Intel 2.8-GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of memory, a 500GB hard drive and an Nvidia GeForce 8400GS graphics card with 256MB of RAM in its standard configuration.

FireWire, Bluetooth and wireless hardware cost extra, however, as does a keyboard, mouse and monitor, none of which is bundled with the box, putting it up for competition with the base model Mac Mini, which also retails for $599, without monitor, keyboard or mouse.

Psystar started selling Intel-based computers with Mac OS X preinstalled last April.  In July 2008,  Apple filed a lawsuit accusing the company of copyright and software licensing violations.

A month later, Psystar filed a countersuit, which was tossed out in November 2008.

Psystar, however, refused to back down.  In February it won a round after a judge ruled that it could amend its countersuit to charge Apple with abusing copyright laws by tying Mac OS X to its own hardware.

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Via Computer World

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  • Lucas

    they must have a heck of a lot of money to sling around cause you can bet when they lose, and they will, the damages will be based around units sold.

  • Kitty

    Wow, that’s crazy! I can’t believe they would file a countersuit. They’re gonna lose big time.

  • J Deveraux

    If I were them, I would have just contributed towards the OSX86 project and sold PCs that contained some sort of informational blurb that they “might” work with it; than just fully defying Apple publicly.

    I do take a different approach to this argument though; I think Apple really needs to look at opening OS X up to the rest of the PC market and leave driver-development up to the vendors. GO GO Direct competition with windows!