Psystar To Sell Its Mac OS X Enabling Software
Psystar has already been sued by Apple over selling Mac clones, with Mac OS X pre-installed on the computers. Apple says that doing so violates the EULA for Mac OS X, which says:
"You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-labeled computer, or to enable others to do so."which is a pretty straight-forward and simple statement. Still, to this point, Psystar has remained defiant. A trial date has been set for January 11, 2010.
According to the company, the software is compatible with the following CPUs: Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem. Sorry, AMD.
Psystar has a demo version of the software available for download. Users can install Mac OS X, but with "limited hardware functionality as compared with the full version." The full version of the Rebel EFI suite, removing any hardware limitations, costs $49.99, which would be pretty reasonable, if it works.Psystar says that its software, through the use of the Darwin Universal Boot Loader, which available in the full version of the Rebel EFI Suite, will allow installing and running multiple operating systems, including Windows 7 as well as XP, Vista, various Linux flavors and OS X Snow Leopard.
There's reason to assume that it does work, considering that Psystar says this is the very software it uses itself to install Mac OS X on its Intel-based hardware. Of course, one difference between Macs and PCs is the wide variety of hardware available on PCs. That's what makes Windows impressive, despite its criticisms; while Mac OS X is great, it only has to support a limited amout of hardware, and that's far easier than what Microsoft has to do.
Given that, Psystar also announced the Psystar Labs approval program.
Users who are having difficulties getting a specific device to work correctly on their machines would send in their component to have it certified. The most common hardware set-ups are compatible, and through PsyLabs we will continue to work toward the Rebel EFI supporting an ever-broader range of hardware profiles.One has to wonder how long past January 2010, given the trial date, these Labs will be running.
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Not sure on the legality of this, but it's pretty interesting. I have wanted to play with OSX for a long time, but I am not going to go out and buy a mac so that I can see what it's all about. Buying a copy of OSX is a bit less painful. I tried the OSX86 route once on my netbook, but it resulted in a OS without sound or internet. |
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They're gonna crash and burn eventually. Apple will keep after them until it happens and you can count on it. They have no right to sell access to the mac platform and buying into their crap is only going towards paying their lawyers mounting bills. The mac OS is a good one but the new Win-7 is too. Linux is too. |
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It won't last. You can bet money that Apple will release updates that determine OSX has been installed in this manner, and somehow restricts what you can do. It's a shame, because you would think they would stand to make more money off the OS if it wasn't propping up their hardware business. |
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I expect to see a Mac OS-X for PC one of these days. It will be watered down a little and will still run Windows in a box. Heh-Heh! |
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So Psystar is gonna sell their own reverse engineered EFI-x product which has been available for a year or so now? meh.. |
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