Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Feb 2009 20:55 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
The legal case between Apple and Psystar has just taken another, very small turn. Psystar gained a small victory over Apple today, because U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup allowed Psystar to modify its counter-suit against Apple, after he had dismissed the original counter-suit. However, something more interesting came out of this ruling: the judge hinted at what would happen if Psystar were to win.
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Yep, that was my problem with Apple once they moved to x86, although to be somewhat fair they DO have to perform some extra work since they use EFI.
OTOH the cheap macbook is really about a $600 machine selling at twice that, and lets not even talk about the incredibly overpriced pro model which is generic PC terms would get you a Clevo D901C(or ASUS W90) w/better CPU and GPU with a chasiss capable of supporting multiple hdds and SLI GPUs.
The cheap macbook price gets you about a P8600 + ATI 4850 512MB GDDR3(MSI GT725) or nVidia 9800M GS 1GB GDDR3 (MSI GT627/ASUS G50VT/etc.) + 4GB DDR2-800 + full keyboard + 1680x1050 LCD panel + 320GB 7200RPM hdd + etc.
I really gave up when I got tired of all the lies about games coming to the Mac, paying full original price for games that were on Windows 2y or more ago and are now found commonloy in the bargain bin for $5. So in the end, I was maintaining extra Windows machines PLUS all of my macs, and just decided that the high cost of the Apple products wasn't justified by OSX.
Today I'm quite happy to be back spending MUCH less $$$ on hw and running linux + some version of Windows mostly for games.
The only possible plus for the Apple product is the Al frame, although a good chunk of the MSI nbs are Al while the others are all some sort of plastic AFAIK. (D901C and W90 are out of my budgeting for nbs...)