Psystar emerges from Chapter 11

APPLE'S pesky nemesis Psystar has announced it will emerge from bankruptcy soon and has released another Mac clone to sail up Job's Mob's nasal passages.

The company entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May, claiming that it could not afford to keep facing Apple's expensive briefs.

Psystar's bankruptcy threatened to delay Apple's lawsuit because that proceeding was put on hold while the bankruptcy court began hearing the clone maker's case for Chapter 11 protection.

According to Apple Insider, a week ago Apple won its motion to have the temporary stay in the case lifted. That ruling released the automatic freeze on any court proceedings that followed when Psystar filed for Chapter 11 in May.

So really there was no longer any point for the Mac clone maker to stay in Chapter 11, as that was not going to offer any further protection from Apple's lawsuit. We think that Psystar will ask the bankruptcy court to dismiss its case, and that the court will likely grant that dismissal.

So now Psystar has come up with a new "Mac" clone. The Open(7) sports a quad core Nehalem processor, a maximum of 12GB RAM and lots of other options, coming in at $1,499.99 for the base configuration. Psystar will pre-install Apple's Mac OS X Leopard at no additional cost, to Apple's continuing annoyance.

It will come with a Darwin Universal Boot Loader, which is a graphical bootloader similar to Chameleon 2.0 with full Mac OS X and XNU support. µ