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Ben Parfitt Apr 14 2008, 2:30pm
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Psystar offers $399 Leopard-compatible ‘OpenMac’ PC
Little known company Psystar is advertising a new ‘OpenMac’ PC that it claims is fully compatible with Apple’s Leopard OS, Macrumours reports.
The machine, which costs just $399, includes a 2.2Ghz Intel Core Duo 2, 2GB or RAM, a 20x DVD+/-R drive and 250GB HDD. The standard PC parts can be easily upgraded, too, meaning serious gaming is an option. Apple’s Leopard OS can be pre-installed.
Macrumours speculates that emulation is used to get Apple’s software working on the non-authenticated machine, possibly deriving from the work of the hobbyist osx86project.
It’s worth noting, though, that the use of Loepard on non Apple-licensed hardware is a direct violation of the OS’ End User License Agreement, so don’t be surprised to hear talk of a legal battle in the near future.
UPDATE: Psystar’s website appears to be down. We’re taking bets on whether that’s down to high volumes of web traffic or high volumes of Apple lawyers…
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“Bit misleading”
Posted by: Phil - Apr 15, 3:22pm
Almost any reasonably new PC can run Leopard, this is nothing more than a marketing ploy by Psystar and if you read the website they say you 'can' run Leopard on their machines but AFAIK they are still BIOS based whereas real Mac's use EFI and an EFI emulator has been created by the OSX86 community to make hackintosh machines more like real macs but any minor version OS update will still probably break your installation of Leopard.
I would imagine that they may have to stop pre-installing Leopard as Apple would have something to say about it