Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jun 2008 22:13 UTC
Apple PsyStar introduced its Mac clone to much media attention back in April, causing many discussions about the company's legal status, the validity of the Mac OS X EULA, and even PsyStar's very existence. It soon turned out PsyStar was a real company, and was actually shipping the OpenComputer Mac Clone to its customers, to generally rather favourable reviews - not stellar of course, but acceptable, with the biggest downside being the inability to use the Software Update tool, forcing users to download OS updates straight from PsyStar's servers - to prevent updates from Apple hosing the OpenComputer. We're a few months later now, and a few things have changed.
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EFI in firmware
by psychicist on Tue 24th Jun 2008 10:39 UTC
psychicist
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2007-01-27

Why isn't EFI put into the firmware chip replacing BIOS instead of emulating an Apple Macintosh on top of BIOS?. Upgrades would be even more seamless that way and maybe you'd even be able to install from a real OS X installation medium.