Not content with waging a crazy legal battle with Apple based on just selling hardware with Snow Leopard on it, Psystar is now selling software that lets you put OS X on any new PC.
In what is probably the most surprising non-celebrity-death story in weeks, recently bankrupt Psystar—surly makers of all things hackintosh—is now claiming to be ready for a comeback, with a new product in tow. This makes very little sense.
A week after Psystar filed for Chapter 11, a company called Quo has stepped in hoping to offer unauthorised Mac machines online and in a retail store near Downtown LA.
Psystar—those guys who were pilfering software from the Hackintosh project to run Mac OS X in blah PC hardware—has filed for Chapter 11. Good riddance, is all I can say. Although this may be a shady legal strategy on their part.
Repeat after me: Psystar computers are not Mac OS X clones (to be Mac clones they need EFI firmware. They don’t have it and that’s why they are as crappy as any other Hackintosh computer.) That out of the way, according to a MacRumors reader, they are preparing a netbook with the hackintosh version of Mac OS X pre-installed.
Someone got the first Open(3)—the kind-of-slimline Psystar Mac “clone”—and posted a lot of pics. Like its guts, it just looks like any other Hackintosh. You know, the ones you can do yourself.
Somehow, between filing bogus legal claims and getting sued into oblivion by one of the most powerful companies in the industry, Psystar managed to design another flagrantly-infringing hackintosh desktop—this time, a tiny one.
