<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, psystar]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, psystar]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/psystar http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/psystar <![CDATA[Rumors of Mac cloner Psystar's demise greatly exaggerated]]> Psystar, the Florida-based maker of computers which can run Apple's OS X operating system, has hired Carr & Ferrell, a Palo Alto-based law firm, to respond to lawsuits from the (official) Mac manufacturer. The firm previously managed to squeeze a settlement from Apple on behalf of its client Burst, a video-streaming technology developer. If Psystar loses the court battle, it willl likely have to recall all the computers it has shipped — all 10 of them. If Apple loses, we might see more clones in the future. [Computerworld]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031660&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Apple's legal bell tolls for thee, PsyStar]]> PsyStar, a Miami company, garnered quite a bit of press when they announced a cheap Intel-based desktop computer that you could use as an Apple clone running Mac OS X, in a pretty clear violation of Apple's legal restrictions on use of the operating system. So everyone was waiting for the hammer to drop — which it finally did yesterday, in the form of a complaint filed by Apple with the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.

Accessing PsyStar's website has become problematic, though it's not clear if it's due to court inunction or just the amount of public interest the company has generated. You have to give PsyStar credit for their moxie, though — running Windows, Linux or OS X on the same, relatively inexpensive and modifiable box as demonstrated in a promotional clip from PsyStar is the stuff übergeek dreams are made of.

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