Psystar delivers Hackintosh
Just the one
CLONE WARS company Psystar seems to have at least one happy customer. An anonymous poster on a Gizmodo forum reckons he's had his box... and he's delighted with it:
I posted this yesterday in one of the older Psystar threads, but no one noticed. So far I haven’t seen any other comments by people who’ve ordered and received a computer from Psystar so I’ll stick my neck out once again.
Just so you know I ordered on April 10th, several days before the news
broke about these guys supposedly being shady scamsters.
I got mine today and it’s awesome. Leopard preinstalled and included
(still in shrink wrap) Core2Duo 2.66 w/4gigs of ram and a Geforce 8600GT w/256
mb ram. Everything as advertised. Clocked a very respectable 3585 on Geekbench.
Plus I got 3 calls from Psystar:
1. to let me know it had shipped.
2. to let me know UPS got it here a day early and it was on the truck for
delivery.
3. to follow up and make sure I got everything and was happy with the
machine.
The reader then updated his post the next day:
I used this machine all day today at work without a hiccup. So far everything is working perfectly (something I can’t say about my G5 it’s replacing) Photoshop, Firefox, VMware Fusion (I know…ironic) as well as the OS itself all performed as expected.
These guys may have made some mistakes, and are obviously treading on very thin ice regarding Apple’s EULA, but they ARE shipping plain vanilla PC’s that run OS 10.5.2 like a champ.
Obviously one happy customer does not a viable business make, and it remains to be seen whether Apple will allow these young scamps to ride roughshod over its EULA, but we remain optimistic that this can only be good news for OSX fans. But only if you are happy working under the hood of your Hackintosh.
There is another fly in the OS ointment. The clone machines will not be able to support Apple's Software Update feature, meaning average users will struggle to keep the OS and any Apple software up to date.
The only way to update the system is by some reasonably complex command-line jiggery pokery developed my the OSX86 community (which has its collective panties in a bunch about Psystar nicking its code without premission).
Indeed, Psystar itself has admitted that anyone wanting to re-install OSX, after a hard drive failure, for example, needs to return the box to base and stump up $50 to have it fixed (plus the cost of a new hard drive in all likelihood).
And don't think you'll be able to phone Apple for support, even though you've paid for a retail copy of its operating system. The first thing they'll ask you for is the serial number of the machine on which the OS is installed.
Not one of ours? Bye bye! µ
Comments
APPLES OWN FAULT.
Apple stole name Apple & Now Apple whines about effect of expanding its system to take in Windows & have CPU made by Intel? well result is their own fault.If you Pay $29 for leopard, you paid for follow up support as much as anyone. However, it mush be tough to run computer with cpu wrapped in plastic bag? Could be Big Money there.
drashek
Sowftware Updates can break on Apple's gear too
Apparently you have not been following the sad history of Apple Software Updates, and the frequency with which they break on Apple's own hardware.For that matter, the frequency with which Apple's own hardware breaks -- often within days of the warranty expiring. Check out the G5 threads on macintouch.com for a good beginning on this subject. Research? We've heard of it.
Do you still feel Psystar customers are gambling?
Perhaps so, but the stakes are commensurately lower...
My point being...
Why in god's name would anyone want to deal with that kind of unfriendly consumerism garbage? Windows can be a bit of a pain to deal with sometimes, just like the government, but Apple sounds like trying to deal with Hitler's government.Hitler is Jobs in this case I imagine. ;)
It's all a marketing trick by Apple...
It's pretty obvious. If these people along with their ghost company that doesn't seem to exist physically were not Apple's own employees playing a role, acting to create marketing hype and as a marketing test to see if OSX Mac clones would sell... well then Apple would have sued them immediately. No chance that Steve Jobs wouldn't have done that already.The whole "hacked" OSX versions "appeared" on the 'net must obviously come from Apple itself as well.
This is just viral marketing tactics and nothing more than that. It's a way marketeers are used to follow in order to create hype.
drashek?
I dont believe for a second thats the real Dr. drashek, M.D.!I mean, the comment was, dare i say it, lucid, insightful, and readable....if it is really him, i just have to say, i dont know if theres drugs you're taking, or drugs you need to be taking, but please,stick to it!
But I still suspect its a copy cat....how did the illustrious Ed. overlook this?
Chem C
Apple updates for Hackentosh
Apple's software updates work on most Hackentoshes without any problem, with the sole exception of the operating system (kernel) updates, such as: 10.5.1 to 10.5.2. A compatible kernel update was soon available on various torrent sites. All of the other Apple software updates, including Safari, iTunes, QT, Airport, Security Updates, etc. install without problem. My Hackentosh machine ran fine after a 20 minute installation, using a modified 10.5.1 install DVD. (The onboard audio required the obtaining of an audio configuration file, while temporarily booted from an Ubuntu Linux live CD). That being said, I still prefer the (somewhat more intelligent) file organization of a Windows operating system.This is why Apple is small potatoes.
Apple insists upon selling computers high priced computers when if it simply became a software company it would probably succeed wildly. A second (ok third) choice to Microsoft's monopoly.PC users consider Apple users an eccentric bunch clinging desperately to "Apple has a better graphics capability". Duh multi-core GPU! Nvidia sez the CPU's dead anyway so does that mean Apple is too?
Anti Competition
MS gets sued for bundling Windoze Meida Srewer, yet Apple get away with forcing you to use their own hardware andnothing else.Why are they not getting sued? Becasue money, not anti-competitive practice law, is all that the US cares about.