Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 16th Apr 2008 20:09 UTC, submitted by jello
Two days ago, the news that a company called Psystar was offering a Mac clone made quite some waves across the net. They were offering their Open Computer, a standard x86 machine, which they could pre-load with Mac OS X Leopard."We're not breaking any laws,", they insisted. ComputerWorld and The Guardian did some digging around, and found some discrepancies.
Thread beginning with comment 310046
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE[6]: But why really care?
by Bounty on Thu 17th Apr 2008 16:36
in reply to "RE[5]: But why really care?"
Member since:2006-09-18
constantly crashed. What would be the content of the complain you're going to hear? "I just bought this Apple thing, and Mac OS X is complete bullshit! It crashes all the time and nothing no work!" So this may lead into bad publicity for Apple. They are usually famous for the "computing experience" they sell (hardware + software), but if a similar product occurs that is - for the average customer - too difficult to distinguish from their own product, they will be blamed for things that fail, no matter if these problems don't occur on their own Mac systems.
So Apple would be apples to apples with Microsoft. Anyways, I think the 'computing experience' thing is vapor or some kind of jedi mind trick. Of 3 Apple laptops I've owned, 2 have died right after the warranty expired from mobo failure. I'm sure Psystar's experiment will fail under pressure from Apple or lawsuits, but I do wish for OSX built for generic hardware. That would help solve MS's monopoly and Apple's 'bundling' issues that seem less than competitive.
Member since:
2006-10-08
You're mentioning a valid point here. Let's just assume the "Clone-Macs" are going to be sold, people buy it, and then they encounter problems, maybe during an update that fails and renders the system unusable, or while running a program that constantly crashed. What would be the content of the complain you're going to hear? "I just bought this Apple thing, and Mac OS X is complete bullshit! It crashes all the time and nothing no work!" So this may lead into bad publicity for Apple. They are usually famous for the "computing experience" they sell (hardware + software), but if a similar product occurs that is - for the average customer - too difficult to distinguish from their own product, they will be blamed for things that fail, no matter if these problems don't occur on their own Mac systems.
I still hope that's not going to happen. Please get me right: In principle, I welcome the idea of a "low cost Mac alternative", but to be honest... I'd rather buy a "real" Apple system if it's up to real work; but for entertainment and exploring the Mac OS X world, they may be good starter's alternatives. - Just assumptions, nota bene.