Comments on: Psystar OpenPC: $550 Leopard PC NOT Sold By Apple

By: La Clonación es Indispensable para el futuro de Apple

La Clonación es Indispensable para el futuro de Apple — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:35:42 +0000

[...] cuentan de esta oferta increible que hay en USA ahora? La Open Computer merece ser estudiada. Aquí hay un video en Techcrunch, medio largo pero gracioso, que muestra que realmente, asi como Mac funciona perfectamente en mi [...]

By: Max

Max — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:58:59 +0000

@Dave “OpenPC claims to have some proprietary parts that facilitate the process.”

Which proprietary parts? The EFI V8 emulator they stole from x86project?

http://www.regh...ams_mac_cloner/

By: Klaus

Klaus — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:24:22 +0000

Compaq started the same way.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:18:29 +0000

@ Ryan Robinson

You said, “Anyone could build this with parts from newegg.”

I’m betting you haven’t done it. Building a Hackintosh (a PC running Leopard) is no simple feat. Even someone who has built many PCs will invest a significant amount of time and effort to build their first PC running a Mac OS. OpenPC claims to have some proprietary parts that facilitate the process. For someone that wants a PC running Leopard, this appears to be a good deal.

@Richard – you said “These guys are should be prepared to lose a fortune in court.”

Do you know what sets OpenPC apart? OpenPC sells the hardware. The user technically buys the OS separately. The OpenPC folks are simply installing your OS on their hardware. Unlike the prior Mac clone companies, Apple doesn’t have as much legal ammo to fire at these guys. (However, they are a small company and they might cave quickly, but that’s a different story.)

By: Ignace / @micronauta

Ignace / @micronauta — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:01:27 +0000

The “without System Update” part sort of gives me the creeps. It could be the a taste of not very nice things to come.

By: Jay (Twitter @qthrul)

Jay (Twitter @qthrul) — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:55:54 +0000

Neat. But the Radius, StarMax, DayStar, PowerComputing and Umax, etc… all of them fell didn’t they?

By: Johnny Warnock

Johnny Warnock — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:14:14 +0000

I sure hope we’re treated to the spectacle of Apple being dragged kicking and screaming out of its socialist paradise. Apple shareholders will actually benefit, with OS X taking up much more market share.

By: MacFan

MacFan — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:59:43 +0000

Love it!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:42:15 +0000

I wonder what is quicker…..the operating system or apple legal.

These guys are should be prepared to lose a fortune in court.

By: Ben etchstar

Ben etchstar — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:37:12 +0000

whatever it looks like, we’ll still laser customize it . apple needs competition to keep them honest.

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:15:57 +0000

It’s just not worth the opportunity costs of warranty issues, update issues, etc. Although parts availability is a perk.

We have had such a good run with iMacs slowly replacing all of our PC commodity hardware (except for our video editing, ediu 3.6 on XP is superior to Final Cut), that we have not had a single failure from these Apples running 24-7-365, we never shut them down, they have never crashed, they just work.

Pystar? Nah.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:06:37 +0000

without the ability to run SoftwareUpdate, I’m not sure I’d want this in an office situation, home sure, office no. Lack of security updates would be a major concern at my job

By: jro

jro — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:24 +0000

@Ryan: it’s called business opportunity.

Commodity hardware plus Leopard? Pretty straight-forward. I’m pretty sure I could beat Apple on price and make a profit at the same time.

Maybe these guys won’t succeed, but the opportunity is there, staring people in the face.

By: Mogilny

Mogilny — Thu, 01 May 2008 17:02:20 +0000

Does this even have networking? Drivers are already a pain with pcs, imagine with this hack job.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:53:37 +0000

LOL, build an office with macs.. that’s rich.

@Mike (comment #2): So you’d rather get the same thing, but pay a lot more for it?! Sounds like the logic of a scared Apple employee trolling..

@Ryan Robinson: Your typical mac user is someone who has no clue how to build a computer.. that’s why they chose the mac in the first place. So for that group it’s great to get the same product for a lot less.

@Nick: Valid point.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:48:30 +0000

“It’s a little long, but if you’re outfitting an office with Macs, you might want to give these guys a look.”

Riiiiggghhht. I’ll be sure to make sure my business is run on machines build by a company that is three days old and has no proven track record for quality and/or support.

By: ceejayoz

ceejayoz — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:41:18 +0000

#3 raises a good point. This is a publicity stunt.

Apparently the fan runs at max 24/7, too.

By: Ryan Robinson

Ryan Robinson — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:36:30 +0000

Why are people taking this seriously? Anyone could build this with parts from newegg.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:36:25 +0000

No thanks, I’d rather buy a mac mini.

By: w00t

w00t — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:30:50 +0000

Oh wow….

Apple won’t be happy about this!