Lawsuit or not, Psystar has just added a new desktop with Mac OS X pre-installed to its line up, the Open(3). The mini-ATX computer comes in at USD 599, and packs a Core 2 Duo at 2.8Ghz, 2GB of DDR2 800Mhz RAM, a GeForce 8400GS 256MB graphics card, and Leopard pre-installed. Various options are also available. The company has also stated it is working on a laptop with Mac OS X pre-installed.
Gotta give them credit for having the kahonies to expand their product line even in the face of Apple’s lawsuit
They need to release a killer i7 machine for half the price of the Mac Pro
That wouldn’t be hard to do.
I don’t know if it’s half the price of the Mac Pro, but there *is* some i7 machine sold by Psystar!
It’s the “Open7”, starting at $1,777.77:
http://store.psystar.com/featured/open7.html
Read the small text
Note: Mac OS X is not supported in the Open7
Ooops, you’re right! I’m so sorry of my mistake 😛
So, don’t take my comment in account, people.
If they’re going to go down, may as well go down fighting.
But yeah, they do have kahonies bigger than David Hasselhoff’s ego.
You mean “cojones” which is vulgar Spanish for testicles
And you should pronnounce it something like “koh-hoh-ness”. Swearing in foreign languages is important, one must to do it right
Sorry for the off-topic…
Thanks for the Spanish lesson
It did occur to me when posting it that it may not be spelled properly… but I was lazy
Well, this proves if anything that the Mini is overpriced even though it has a nice form factor. Look what Psystar can sell for $599, and that’s a really nice desktop. It sure blows the Mini out of the water. This is exactly the gap in Apple’s line-up that most users would really like, and that they refuse to release.
Its not too expensive, is it, the Mini? Its very well priced for what it is, a fully featured machine that you can carry around in a briefcase or at the limit in your coat pocket.
The absurdity comes from marketing a product which is wonderful for the vanishingly small market segment of people who really want to do this as if it were competitive with mainstream desktop base units, and as your sole entry into the midrange base unit market.
But that’s Apple for you. Its like insisting that people buy a screen with their computer whether they need one or not. Stuck in the ridgity of their past history and surprisingly incapable of alternative and creative approaches to the product line.
It just creates the market for Hackintoshes, and then you have to resort to legal action to stop that. The whole thing is based on the bankrupt idea that you can and should refuse to make what your customers want, and stop anyone else from making it either.
And yes, it has worked so far since the last time they dragged it off the rocks. That’s not the point. Just as its not the point whether you can carry the Mini in your coat pocket. The question is, how long will it carry on working?
…it is very tempting. I would still be concerned that when snow leopard is released I would be stuck.
The knowledge is out there to build your own OSX hardware without dealing with Psystar. The fact that Apple doesn’t seem to be stomping on those sources makes me wonder.
For example the Gigabyte EP45-UDP3P board is quite good at running OSX. For about $400 barebones you can buy the board and a Quadcore 9400 with 8GB of DRAM. Whether it is legit is another matter to be seen?