Point is, if they really wanted to, they could make things really hard for us in future versions. It would be hacked eventually, but that's not the issue.

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Apple Macbook Pro 15" 2.93GHz | Apple 24" LED Cinema Screen

iAtkos v5i 10.5.6 Vanilla

Machine: Acer 7730G
Memory: 4GB DDR2/667
Storage: 2x 250GB
Display: nVidia GeForce 9300M GS

Here's an interview with the guy from PearC. Sorry, it's only Google translated. Here's the original German version.

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2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter • MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interface • Behringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor • RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64

c't 6/2009 has an article about PearC Starter and states all technical details about the system.

They say that boot123 is being used and an unaltered Retail Leopard DVD is put in the box with the PC. And guess what: iLife is missing.

So this is bad value for money, but as in a thread here in the forum, PearC makers seam to be using the EFI-partition to store some needed kexts...

I am just curious how they make it possible to boot from HDD - with my system this does not work.

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MacBook Alu 2,4 GHz, 4GB, Seagate 7200.4 500GB, iPhone 3G 3.0
Shuttle SG33G5, Intel C2Q Q6600 2,4 GHz, 4 GB, Samsung HE753Li (retail Leo 10.5.6), Seagate Sata for Vista, PX-810SA, Nvidia 9600 GT 512MB

SG33G5 runs Retail Leopard 10.5.6 (vanilla) thanks to boot123!

"I am just curious how they make it possible to boot from HDD - with my system this does not work."

Well, that`s one advantage of those computers - you dont have to worry about those things anymore - it have to work since the company takes responsibility for it. Still i wonder how it works, especially about the updates if they can guarantee that it`ll work. Another thing that i`m curious of - will Apple introduce some changes in Leopard`s new version to block those computers - along with osx86 machines ? I think they could do that...we can "break" it and get it working again ( i mean the community ), but what about ppl who will have those computers ?

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AMD Phenom II X6 3.5Ghz
AMD 990FX Chipset
Kingston HyperX 16GB 1600Mhz
AMD Radeon HD6850 X2 CrossFire
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB

Well I have got the hang of osx86 - kind of, booting from hdd now works for me.

Back on topic:
At PearC they don't guarantee you that all coming updates from Apple (including coming version of OS X) will work on their systems. They just say, that until now no update has made a problem for their users.

I guess we just need to wait some more to see if Apple will really break OSX86 installations - they cannot change existing hardware but might include something, that stops us from using it on standard PCs...

Let's wait for Snow Leopard and then we'll know for sure. I can't see, why it should not boot via boot123 like with Leopard.

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MacBook Alu 2,4 GHz, 4GB, Seagate 7200.4 500GB, iPhone 3G 3.0
Shuttle SG33G5, Intel C2Q Q6600 2,4 GHz, 4 GB, Samsung HE753Li (retail Leo 10.5.6), Seagate Sata for Vista, PX-810SA, Nvidia 9600 GT 512MB

SG33G5 runs Retail Leopard 10.5.6 (vanilla) thanks to boot123!