PsyStar shipping ’snow clones’
The Miami, Florida-based maker of Hackintosh computers — whitebox PCs running a hacked version of Apple’s operating system — has changed law firms, been fined for destroying evidence and even made a trip through bankruptcy court, but they have yet to run low on chutzpah.
PsyStar has announced that that it’s so-called “Open Computer” product line is now available with OS X 10.6 as the default install, just a bit more than a week after Apple began shipping Snow Leopard.
“We have developed new virtualization technologies to allow our Open Computers to interface with the all-new Mac OS X like never before,” says Psystar in a public blog post. “We support Snow Leopard on all new Psystar machines and we’re already taking orders for computers with the latest OS from Apple.”
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Further, the company has filed a new lawsuit in Florida based on rehashed allegations that Apple is acting as an illegal monopoly by preventing others from licensing and selling the company’s crown jewel operating system. This tactic has been rejected by the federal judge in California hearing Apple’s copyright infringement suit against Psystar.
In that case, the Mac cloner has been fined by the court for destroying evidence, changed legal representation and been through bankruptcy — that’s all in addition to being barred by the bench from using their revived anti-trust defense.
The PsyStar’s latest whitebox PCs running Apple’s OS X 10.6 are snarkily referred to a “snow clones,” by InformationWeek, a rather apt use of sarcasm.
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