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naquaada · 02-10-2009, 03:55 PM

Competition for Psystar - now Apple Clones even from here.

If Pystar wasn't enough, there's actually a company called PearC which is selling new Intel Mac clones. Here you can take a look at the huge building complex, and here are some more information from Heise.de. It's google translated, so have fun ;-)

I took the opportunity and called them. At the beginning I was interested, asked about hardware and comaptibility - then I told him that I was from the scene and that I'm against this what he's doing.

That came unexpected. During the call he gets more nervous and he gulped sometimes. I told him that OSx86 should be a non-profit operating system for private users and that he offends against Apple's rules, not to install OS X on other machines, but also against ours by using code from the OSx86 community. I told him that we don't accept making money using OSx86 and we disagree with companies who do it. For him it wasn't wrong to sell Mac clones, that it will create problems for Apple or the OSx86 community seemed not to be a problem to him. But he was not happy that I told him this so directly. I explained the beginning of OSx86, that many users couldn't use it properly and switched to a real Mac - he mistunderstood this and said that this would be a good reason to sell these clones. Rubbish - if anyone has bought a cheaper Mac clone he wouldn't by a real Mac after it. He also said it would be a way for non-experienced users who couldn't install themselves. I said that these people - who normally don't need very big computers - also could buy a used Mac Mini G4. For internet browsing and watching videos it is enough, and it's smaller and needs less power.

At the end we don't came to a same optinion, but he was hearable disconcerted after the call. But the call was calm, and he didn't hang up early, that was ok.