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.
Via Computer World
