German cloner announces ‘Der PC mit Mac OS X’
One company is assembling and selling boxen with plenty of hardware punch (and not a legal leg to stand on), which could eventually run iPC OSx86 10.5.6 once the lads finish hacking stealing development.
SevenMac brings us news of HyperMegaNet UG, a German “company” that is perhaps notable for only one reason—the PearPC—which it advertises as the “Der PC mit OS X.”
iPC OSx86 10.5.6 nearing completion
iHackintosh brings us the news that iPC OSx86 10.5.6 is nearing completion and that the lads have finalized their list of kernels, drives, patches, bootloaders, applications and girls they would like to spend time with. Well, all of that except of that last bit, which I made up.
iPC is said to support English, Japanese, German, French, Spanish and 13 other languages, as well as scores of graphics solutions, chipsets, audio, networking, etc hardware and drivers.
This steady of supply of high quality operating system software and supporting files means that Apple’s efforts to kill off PsyStar et al are meaningless.Is it even possible, let alone desirable, for Apple to stop this “alternative” OS X development channel?
HyperMegaNet UG (does this name exude tackiness and a lack of class in German, too?) is selling their boxen in Starter (€499, $648), Advanced (€749, $972) and Professional (€1,499, $1,946) configurations with the latter, for example, shipping with an 2.66GHz Intel i7, nVidia 9800GTX GPU and 2GB RAM. Apple’s least expensive Mac Pro sells for $2,299, though you can get refurbished units for considerably less.
Burger King or Ruth’s Chris
It is becoming rather obvious that pretty much anyone with a credit card, phillips head screw driver and broadband internet connection can get together the needed components and build a Mac clone. It is equally clear that it isn’t in Apple’s DNA to make or sell anything as ugly and unappealing (or affordable) as a PearPC.
There has to be another way for the rest of us to get an inexpensive “Mac” that comes with a real warranty and long-term product support. Really, a PC is not a close substitute for a Mac, but anymore the hardware is all just hamburger anyway.
Apple needs to come up with choices between their own Ruth’s Chris style desktops and the low-class crud being offered by hucksters like HyperMegaNet UG and PsyStar.
What’s your take?
Related Posts:
February 5th, 2009
OSX86 run fine. I’ve installed it on this laptop, a 3 year old Dell. With the vanilla kernel of the last release I can update off the Apple site.
Your blathering about warranty loses it’s point since this computer has zero changes, it’s shipped in this configuration.
iWorks and iLife all work. Wireless also works with a broadcom NIC.
Apple hasn’t bothered to mess with OSX86 because the people installing it are unlikely to purchase a Mac, but might after fooling around with a Hackintosh.
A Mac is just a PC, and if you’re so inclined, you can put together a Hackintosh to fill in one of the gaps Apple has in its line purely for marketing reasons. Like a model between the Mini and the iMac.
Hurts, eh?